farness
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Realizing the farness of my camp, from human abode—it could scarcely have been farther on the continent—my thoughts flew back to the dear ones at home, and my comrades, the men of the Camp-fire Club.
From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Ernest Thompson Seton
But when his face was partly in shadows, particularly about his brow, there was a frightening tone which came into his features; for it was a tone of farness, of mysticism and conjuration.
From Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Peirce
Starboard loomed, until it was lost in the farness, that coast that we were following, but the three ships were in a half-land, half-water world.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
Patience taketh flight: * And from parting of friend to sore death I'm dight: O how woeful this farness from dear one, and oh * How my heart is rent by mine own unright!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
For at times he will be in a condition of great nearness, at times in a condition of some farness, or, more properly speaking, of obscurity.
From The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers by Lilian Staveley
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