Use far in a sentence
Sentences starting with far
- Far below them wound the Blue into its vale of sapphire shadows, with its hillsides of the mystic fabric of the backgrounds of the masters of the Renaissance. [9]
- Far away I will think of you, and believe in you, dear, masterful, madman friend. [11]
- Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way. [13]
- Far up the white trail Night came trotting faithfully down. [13]
- Far less did we feel that we were being educated according to any fixed method. [10]
- Far from pressing upon me the thoughts which moved him so deeply, it was long ere he permitted the first glimpse into his soul. [10]
- Far different anxieties tortured him. [10]
- Far from attempting to hide or ignore the struggle by which she and her husband had attained their present position, she referred with the utmost naivete to incidents in her career, while the whole table paused to listen. [9]
- Far back from this level land lay the dark, limestone hills, which had rambled down from Labrador, and, crossing the River St. Lawrence, stretched away into the English province. [11]
- Far over in the western vista a long line of trees, twining through an oasis flanking the city, led out to a point where the desert abruptly raised its hills of yellow sand. [11]
Sentences ending with far
- I won't trust you quite that far. [5]
- I was annoyed with myself for my share in the conversation so far. [11]
- The luck was with him to-day so far. [11]
- Her cheeks glowed with her vehemence, and she thought she had won over the physician; but he gravely shook his head, and said: "Your righteous anger carries you too far. [10]
- We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
- I understand that went pretty far. [9]
- It struck the wall over Harris's head and fell down on him; I had not imagined I could throw so far. [5]
- And to be waked out of a well-earned siesta--to save a gentleman who has come here to make things unpleasant for him--is carrying a joke a little far. [9]
- It was all very well (so said the first spokesman) to pluck a few feathers from a bird so bountifully endowed as the Honourable Adam, but were not two gentlemen who should be nameless carrying the joke a little too far? [9]
- He had travelled very far. [11]
Short sentences using far
- How far have you read? [9]
- How far have you got? [9]
- So far, everything went well. [4]
- So far, so well. [5]
- Had she gone too far? [9]
- You have gone too far. [11]
- He had gone too far. [11]
- But it hasn't, so far. [5]
- I have travel so far. [11]
- He did not run far. [4]
Sentences containing far two or more times
- If the aristocracy were malignant--though numbers of them were far from being so--there was also a malignant prejudice aroused against them, and M. Taine is not far wrong when he says of this prejudice, "Its hard, dry kernel consists of the abstract idea of equality. [4]
- To-night, the crowd were far more restless than usual, far more irritating in their purposeless movements. [11]
- If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
- Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
- What demons are these that make us do and feel things in our dreams which when we are waking we should drive far, far from our thoughts? [10]
- But as yet these joys of love far, far outweighed the suffering which it caused. [10]
- But just then there whistled through the larrup of sound a clear voice callin', gentle and coaxin', yet commandin' too; and the spears dropped, and the pounding of horsehoofs ceased, and then the army marched away; far away; iver so far away, into--" "Into Heaven! [11]
- It's as though there was some other self in me which reached far, far back into centuries, that wills me to do this and wills me to do that. [11]
- Far off, above, the sapphire gleams, Far off, below, the sapphire flows, And this, my place of morning dreams, The bank where my vain visions rose! [11]
- The nations of the air sent their legions here to bivouac, and the discord of a hundred languages might be heard far out to sea, far in upon the land. [11]
More example sentences with the word far in them
- He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
- A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
- If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
- Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
- If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
- You have not your match here in Alexandria, no, nor so far as Greek is spoken. [10]
- This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
- A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
- He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
- I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
- I will tell you, as far as I am authorized to speak for the Opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
- I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
- But I suppose you will celebrate, and will even go so far as to read the Declaration. [7]
- Then I'll take you to far places. [13]
- I've stuck to you thus far, and I'll be damned now if I throw you over, like they did Jonah. [9]
- Think the lines you mention are by far the best I ever wrote, hey? [6]
- I rejoice with you in the success which has thus far attended that cause. [7]
- It is that you do not choose to understand--you are far too clever. [9]
- As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
- I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. [7]
- I shall accompany you as far as Edmonton; you can then proceed by easy stages, in this pleasant weather. [11]
- And that, if you and I happen to be on opposite sides, it won't make any difference as far as my feelings are concerned. [9]
- I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. [7]
- And yet, and yet," he added, half sadly, "how futile has been all our fighting, so far as human eye can see. [11]
- They were not yet under control, but she felt them, and in so far as she had power to think, she used them. [11]
- For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
- In turning, the yacht came round on the seaward side of the steamer, but far behind. [4]
- Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
- Your interpretation is wrong; Caesar gave me a far better one. [10]
- Finally Venters concluded Wrangle had grazed far enough, and, taking his lasso, he went to fetch him back. [13]
- I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
- Go where you would, you heard nothing else, from morning till far into the night. [5]
- Let's see, how would they put it in the Call?--'Extraordinary Discovery --Herd of buffaloes found in the far North by an Englishman and his Franco-Irish Party--Sport for the gods--Exodus of 'brules' to White Valley! [11]
- And the traveler would probably be right, so far as he is concerned. [4]
- She said she would not go far, and would call at the haunted house once a month for her money. [5]
- All the adults would marry or pair, and all the offspring, as far as that was possible, would be reared; so that the struggle for existence would be periodically excessively severe. [1]
- And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!--but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
- Besides, Trinity Day would bring the end of it all, and that was not far off. [11]
- Salem was no worse than some other plantations on the island, but it was far behind such plantations as that owned by Dyck Calhoun, and had been notorious for the cruelties committed on it. [11]
- It was far worse than he could have imagined, the way his wife took the affair, though he had imagined certain words, or perhaps only looks, from her that were bad enough. [8]
- Why in the world she should ever have been curious about Jethro Bass is a mystery to many, for the two of them were as far apart as the poles. [9]
- For in whatever world I may find myself, I hope I shall always love our poor little spheroid, so long my home, which some kind angel may point out to me as a gilded globule swimming in the sunlight far away. [6]
- They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
- Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
- The moment the words were out of her mouth Massieu was reading to her the abjuration, and she was repeating the words after him mechanically, unconsciously--and smiling; for her wandering mind was far away in some happier world. [5]
- Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
- The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star. [10]
- Well, I have won so far, and I shall win in the end. [11]
- I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
- We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
- Everybody had friends with whom they were on far more familiar terms. [10]
- Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
- This was done with the upper portion of her body bending very far forward. [10]
- If she is with the right man, near or far is nothing. [11]
- All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
- Rumour reported that, with the huge sword he wielded, he had dealt from his powerful charger blows as terrible as those inflicted five-and-twenty years before when, not far from the same spot, he struck Archelaus on the head. [10]
- On this day, with the glimmer of land in the far distance, the charges of all the guns were renewed. [11]
- He never interfered with the acts of his fellow-servants, except in so far as those acts affected his master's comfort; and he paid no attention to their words except where they affected himself. [11]
- I was delighted with my new property,--but it cost me four dollars to get there, so far was it beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the fashionable quarter. [6]
- Thus he gazed with mute reproach at the smith for some time, then pushed the goblet far away, exclaiming with sincere indignation: "What doings are these, friend Adam? [10]
- He concluded arrangements with Major Pond to take him as far as the Pacific Coast, and with R. S. Smythe, of Australia, for the rest of the tour. [5]
- Demetrius watched it with less anxiety; he knew that his Arabs were far superior to the Egyptian breed in staying power, and they also had the advantage of having had a longer rest. [10]
- Melissa had confessed with far greater warmth what her feelings had been after she had sacrificed for the suffering sinner. [10]
- It was under-tinged with all the colours of a morning sunrise over Mount Bobar not far beyond, lifting up its somnolent and massive head into the Eastern sky. [11]
- Her face flushed with a resentment far greater than that of Rudyard's, and it was heightened by a humiliation which overwhelmed her. [11]
- They clenched there with a power like that of three men; for this was the kind of grip which, far away in the country of the Yang-tse-kiang, Li Choo had learned in the days when he had made youth a thing to be remembered. [11]
- His eyes burned with a light that was far away. [9]
- I rode down with a gentleman to the Ocean House, the other day, to see the sea horses, and also to listen to the roar of the surf, and watch the ships drifting about, here, and there, and far away at sea. [5]
- At last Sir Wissenschaft, a poor and obscure knight, out of a far country, arrived to do battle with the monster. [5]
- It was the wish to do, to see how far this thing on my shoulders"--he touched his head--"and this great physical machine"--he touched his breast with a thin hand--"would carry me. [11]
- I do not wish to be understood as casting the least reflection upon the high character and standing of the gentleman from Louisiana far from it. [5]
- They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
- She was at Winnipeg, and was coming west as far as Regina to meet him on his way down. [11]
- Ask of the winds that far away with fragments strewed the sea. [5]
- There was not wind enough for sails, but there were chopping waves, and swell enough to toss us about, and to produce bright flashes of light far out at sea. [4]
- Six months later William Rufus Holly, a deacon in holy orders, journeyed to Athabasca in the Far North. [11]
- But, if you will that migraine to be far away, it will fly, and then I shall be near. [11]
- I saw General Wilkinson at the far end of the room; his hand was raised, and there was that on his handsome face which might have been taken for a smile, and yet was not a smile. [9]
- If Abersfeld the wildest freebooter of all the plundering nobles far or near were to seize her? [10]
- I had a wife once," he added in a kind of troubled dream, looking at her as if she were very far away, "and her name was Mercy--her name was Mercy--Mercy Madras. [11]
- Titianus and his wife led a retired life by lake Larius, far from the world, and both were baptized before they died. [10]
- All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. [5]
- There was a wicked look in his face, from which the landlord shrank back- shrank so far that he carried himself among the others, and stood there, half frightened, half dumfounded. [11]
- Blithe young Barbara, whose voice and beauty she knew how to value, could bring new life and brightness into the great, far too silent house. [10]
- The father, for whose blessing he longed, and who was to have been gladdened by his advancement, had journeyed far away and must henceforward be the foe of the sovereign to whom he owed his prosperity. [10]
- I read the whole book twice through and some of the chapters several times, and the reason that that was as far as I got with it was that I lent it to another admirer of yours and he is admiring it yet. [5]
- Extremes meet, and who so like to be the other party as the elderly gentleman at the other end of the table, as far from her now as the length of the board permits? [6]
- It was Evelyn who rose first and came forward, without, so far as Philip could see, the least embarrassment of recognition. [4]
- Indeed, the Vicomte, who had a theory concerning Mr. Spence's church-going, was not far from wrong. [9]
- But every one who could have directed them on their way had fled before them, so they had kept too far northward and wandered near the fortress of Thabne. [10]
- It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes, and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz, over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands. [10]
- He began to whittle again, and remarked: "It is only seventeen miles or so across these hills to Far Harbor, old chap, and you can get a train there for Asquith. [9]
- His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
- Then, after a whispered word to the accompanist she began singing Gounod's memorable song, "There is a Green Hill Far Away. [11]
- In a little while you will have far more besides me to think about. [9]
- It seemed worth while to try how far the principle of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. [1]
- But their testimony, while of consequence, lacks the most important detail; so far as my information goes, the Quimby manuscript has not been produced. [5]
- For a good while I said to myself every morning: "Now I have escaped thus far, and so the chances are just that much increased that I shall catch it this time. [5]
- And my dream, while I lay ill with fever far away from my mistress! [10]
- As to the Whig men who have participated in the war, so far as they have spoken in my hearing they do not hesitate to denounce as unjust the President's conduct in the beginning of the war. [7]
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