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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.

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.

She pressed his hand rapturously between her two, dropped it playfully, and saw that there had come between them a nearness and a farness different from any that had ever been.

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.

When those far lights above   Scorch me with farness—lights that call and call   To the far heart, and answer not at all;     Save that they will not let the darkness be.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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