far
adverb
at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point.
farness
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a word derived from
far.
Example Sentences
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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 Earl Peirce
For the farness and the road are his glory and his goad.
From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
