farness

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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 Peirce, Earl

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 Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

The strong life that never knows harness; The wilds where the caribou call; The freshness, the freedom, the farness — O God! how I'm stuck on it all.

From The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Johnston, Mary

Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, * To whom my      heart clings, by life-tide of you!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir