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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They were so dark a gray that they seemed brown, and there were a farness and alertness of vision in them as of bright questing through profounds of space.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
They have welded close the coop Wherein our luckless Frenchmen are enjailed With such compression that their front has shrunk From five miles' farness to but half as far.—
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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
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
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 Robert W. (Robert William) Service
