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 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
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
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
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
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
