farness
Example Sentences
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This is a good example of that combined farness and nearness which is so characteristic about most neighboring cities in Greece.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, iv.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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
But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
