Use farther in a sentence
Sentences starting with farther
- Farther South it's too hot, and I've been in Boston in May when that east wind of yours made every nerve in my body get up and howl. [8]
- Farther and farther they went afield for game, and always they grumbled sorely against this horde which had driven the deer from his cover and the buffalo from his wallow. [9]
- Farther on, as the soldiers along the highroads and in the towns grew more and more numerous, they seemed so harmoniously part of the peaceful scene that war was as difficult to visualize as ever. [9]
- Farther away from the road flowers of even greater beauty blow, seen by no mortal eye; they deck themselves in beauty for no one but for their Creator, and because they rejoice in themselves. [10]
- Farther away, on the right and left, the light was dim, and near the side walls the darkness was as intense as in a real tomb. [10]
- Farther on, up the gradual slope, rose a broken wall, a huge monument, looming dark purple and stretching its solitary, mystic way, a wavering line that faded in the north. [13]
- Farther on flourished the fragrant betharan. [10]
- Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky. [2]
- Farther up the street I came to mine host of the Coffee House standing on his steps, with his hands behind his back. [9]
- Farther than this she had never been. [13]
Sentences ending with farther
- But I beg you to hear me farther. [10]
- Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
- He beat us too in throwing the spear, but the king, who you know is proud of being the best archer in Persia, sent his arrow farther. [10]
- Don't be cruel to the sensitive natures who find a music in the harmonies of rhythm and rhyme which soothes their own souls, if it reaches no farther. [6]
- Both were cruelly tired, yet Becky said she thought she could go a little farther. [5]
- The selfishness of this unspoiled general of victorious armies, companion of princes, and idol of an applauding and grateful nation, reached but that far and no farther. [5]
- At the Berezina they again became disorganized, many were drowned and many surrendered, but those who got across the river fled farther. [2]
- Why not carry the thing farther? [9]
- He tried, and the belt moved nearly over the monster's head, but he could get it no farther. [5]
- After staggering into Smolensk which seemed to them a promised land, the French, searching for food, killed one another, sacked their own stores, and when everything had been plundered fled farther. [2]
Short sentences using farther
- No farther progress was possible. [10]
- No, farther to the west. [10]
- Inquiries are not pushed farther. [9]
- Absurdity could go no farther. [5]
- Never--but--" She got no farther. [11]
- But why go farther? [9]
- I ventured farther. [11]
Sentences containing farther two or more times
- Then Denisov's voice was heard shouting farther and farther away. [2]
- His eyes seemed to retreat farther and farther back under his shaggy brows. [11]
- Every turn of the wheels carried us farther and farther away from a familiar world to one of yesterday. [11]
- I can't help seeing that we are growing farther and farther apart, that business, your career, is taking all of you and leaving me nothing. [9]
- Corpse after corpse sank on the stone wall beside the fallen man, but the iron wedge of the Spaniards pressed farther and farther forward. [10]
- The glow spread, rising and falling, farther and farther still. [2]
- From Sventsyani they retired farther and farther to Drissa, and thence again beyond Drissa, drawing near to the frontier of Russia proper. [2]
- At length they occurred at longer intervals, the thunder lost its appalling fury, and as the wind drove the storm farther and farther to the southwards, at last it wholly died away. [10]
- Their walk which now took them farther and farther from the sea extended to the extreme south of the town and the shores of lake Mareotis. [10]
- Paulus was sitting in front of the cave that had sheltered Polykarp and Sirona, and he watched the torches whose light lessened as the bearers went farther and farther towards the valley. [10]
More example sentences with the word farther in them
- When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
- Clemens was presently writing to Redpath from Washington and points farther west. [5]
- The farther his work progressed the higher rose his admiration for his model. [10]
- I wonder, I wonder if--" But she got no farther with that thought. [11]
- This device originated with the resourceful Mr. Theodore Watling, and if it had not had the approval of Mr. Miller Gorse, it would never have got any farther than the judiciary committee. [9]
- Everyone was dissatisfied with the general course of affairs in the Russian army, but no one anticipated any danger of invasion of the Russian provinces, and no one thought the war would extend farther than the western, the Polish, provinces. [2]
- In a line with that you may see two others: the coral fan, as I always called it from its resemblance in form to that beautiful marine growth, and a third a little farther along. [6]
- He felt farther with his foot-something clicked. [11]
- Paulus soothed him with gentle words, and told him of the errand on which he had sent the lad to the farther coast of the sea. [10]
- Many of them will do so not because they like his position on this question, but because they prefer him, being wrong on this, to another whom they consider farther wrong on other questions. [7]
- Our hearts beating wildly, we made our way into a farther room. [9]
- An effete celebrity, who would never be heard of again in the great places until the funeral sermon waked up his memory for one parting spasm, finds himself in full flavor of renown a little farther back from the changing winds of the sea-coast. [6]
- What I learned while seeking after truth during those night hours ought to have taught me the connection between mind and body; yet I was never farther from perceiving it. [10]
- He arose, and when he slid down out of his cave the birds fluttered and flew farther away. [13]
- And miles farther west a faint green spot marked the location of Stone Bridge. [13]
- Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes and artillerymen's bonfires. [2]
- Near at hand were a cow and a calf and several yearlings, and farther out in the sage some straggling steers. [13]
- The farther he went, the more cloudy became the sky,--which here so rarely failed to show a sunny vault of blue at noonday,--the more fiercely howled the tempest. [10]
- The farther Katuti went in the lamentably incorrect epistle--which she could only decipher with difficulty--which her darling had written to her, the paler grew her face, which she several times covered with her trembling hands, from which the letter dropped. [10]
- Each day we went farther afield, and each night trooped merrily in through the gates with hopes of homes and clearings rising in our hearts--until the motionless figure of the young Virginian met our eye. [9]
- Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
- By the time we touched the brown-green prairie on the farther side the sand was rolling behind us. [11]
- They toiled their way to the farther end of the tunnel, then made their spliced kite-strings fast and moved on. [5]
- In the eddying water, however, about the reversing screw, were two heads, and farther off was a man struggling. [11]
- And this need was to lead me farther than ever afield from the path of righteousness. [9]
- The nearer she was to Charley, the farther away from him, to her mind, was Portugais, and she became magnanimous. [11]
- If no boat was there, then we must circle the lake three or four miles farther through a cedar-swamp, with no trail in particular. [4]
- And Nell herself was there, and he--both laughing heartily as they had often done--and when he had got as far as this, Kit could go no farther, but flung himself upon his poor bedstead and wept. [12]
- And the dew was still on the grass as she crossed the wide lawn and made her way around the lake to the path that entered the woods at its farther end. [9]
- Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, "It is mine. [11]
- But the Judge was raised farther north, and perhaps he has some horrid idea of what this people might be induced to do. [7]
- Here a wine-skin was passed from hand to hand, there a joint was roasting on a wooden spit; farther on a party were throwing dice for the booty they had won, or playing at morra. [10]
- Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
- In August he was at Smolensk and thought only of how to advance farther, though as we now see that advance was evidently ruinous to him. [2]
- If the ship was "down by the head," and would got steer, he would go and move his "trunk" farther aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
- Well, I don't want this to go any farther, you're a gentleman,--but Austen came down here yesterday and had the whole thing sized up by last night. [9]
- The farther they wandered from this canyon the better it would suit him. [13]
- In the farther wall of this store-court was a very high doorway, that led into a large garden with rows of well-tended trees and trellised vines, clumps of shrubs, flowers, and beds of vegetables. [10]
- On hearing his voice, Adventus and the Indian hurried in, with Epagathos, who had even heard his shriek in the farther room. [10]
- The landlady was very much astonished to learn that they had come all the way from London, and appeared to have no little curiosity touching their farther destination. [12]
- Now she could venture to raise herself, and to look in at the open window; the door of communication between the two rooms was closed, but a streak of light showed her that in the farther room, which was the sitting-room, a lamp was burning. [10]
- There were excursions up the valley, and picnics on the hill-sides, and occasional lunches and evening parties at the summer hotel, a mile from us farther down the valley, at which tourists were beginning to assemble. [11]
- We made him up a purse of fifty pounds,-- for the crew got to like him,--and left him at Port Darwin, sailing away again in a few days to another pearl-field farther east. [11]
- Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. [2]
- Tucking Honora's hand under her arm, she led the way majestically to the dining-room, a large apartment with a dimly lighted conservatory at the farther end, presided over by the decorous butler and his assistants. [9]
- She had rode two hundred miles from the south-west, and was making for Fort Micah, sixty miles farther north. [11]
- The farther she travelled, the more she seemed to penetrate into a land of unrealities. [9]
- Venters crossed well-worn trails marked with fresh tracks; and when he had stolen on a little farther he saw many birds and running quail, and more rabbits than he could count. [13]
- Still farther away, towards the south, was the great cattle-pasture, where, as he looked, a thousand cattle roamed. [11]
- Is he coming toward you or going farther off? [7]
- I didn't choose to walk any farther in the part of the garden they had chosen for a night promenade, and turned off abruptly. [4]
- But farther over to the right, where Cairo lay, there hung a bluish mist, palpable and delicate, out of which emerged the vast pyramids of Cheops; and beside it the smiling inscrutable Sphinx faced the changeless centuries. [11]
- A little farther to the left, and all doubts and misgivings would have been ended. [10]
- He ran straight to the bank of the river by the side of which the village of Alderbank was built, a little farther down the stream than the house in which he was living. [6]
- It was time to get in again, but Barbara dreaded the ride over the rough, crowded highway, and begged her companion to pursue their journey a little farther on foot. [10]
- A concert was to be held after the service on the coming Sunday night, at which there was to be a collection for funds to build another mission- house a hundred miles farther North, and she had been practising music she was to sing. [11]
- The points of time you fix are much farther off than I had hoped. [7]
- No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. [6]
- In fact, however, though now much farther off than before, the Rostovs all saw Pierre--or someone extraordinarily like him--in a coachman's coat, going down the street with head bent and a serious face beside a small, beardless old man who looked like a footman. [2]
- Let us pursue this matter a little farther, and form a committee of investigation. [9]
- But, don't follow this lead any farther, Lady Lawless, or you may come across something that will give you a start. [11]
- Upon Quilp, however, this circumstance made no impression, farther than as it moved him to snap his fingers close to his wife's eyes, with divers grins of triumph and derision. [12]
- Dolokhov replied that they were not hungry and must push on farther that night. [2]
- From the fleches they rode still farther to the left, along a road winding through a thick, low-growing birch wood. [2]
- From that place there is no escape--the desert is as the sea, and upon that sea there is no ghiassa to sail to a farther shore. [11]
- She stood by the window, awaiting his pleasure, watching the white mist as it rolled over the floor of the river, catching glimpses in vivid, saffron blurs of the lights of the Arundel Mill on the farther shore. [9]
- The promenade under the willows was deserted, the great river stretched away under the moon towards the forest line of the farther shore, filmy and indistinct. [9]
- The North got the western boundary of Texas thrown farther back eastward than the South desired; but, in turn, they gave Texas ten millions of dollars with which to pay her old debts. [7]
- We had, on the way down, fine views of the snowy Altels, the Rinderhorn, the Finster-Aarhorn, a deep valley which enormous precipices guard, but which avalanches nevertheless invade, and, farther on, of the Blumlisalp, with its summit of crystalline whiteness. [4]
- The wider became the watery expanse between him and Spain, the farther receded Isabella's memory, the less alluring and delightful grew the thought of possessing her hand. [10]
- Then, farther up, the valley seemed to end in a huge promontory. [11]
- He withdrew into the twilight of the farther end of the barn, where he found the earthen floor bedded a foot deep with straw. [5]
- He was perchance the strongest man there, though none of us guessed, after ruling that region, that he was to repeat untold hardships to found and rear another settlement farther west. [9]
- He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Anton ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. [2]
- Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but took to be the enemy. [2]
- At the third the horse refused to wade farther in such a tempest, so there was nothing to be done except spring off and lead it to the higher ground which the water had not yet reached. [10]
- The historian of the future need look no farther than our houses (if any remain), to be satisfied that we had more than the necessities of existence. [9]
- The Necropolis on the farther side of the river was also well seen from Bent-Anat's balcony. [10]
- As we reached the farther side I could feel it was beginning to move. [11]
- On the contrary, the farther his convalescence progressed the more constantly and anxiously he thought of Heinz and Katterle, the more pleasure it afforded him to talk about them and to discuss with Eva what could have befallen both. [10]
- This would cost the enemy two miles of travel to meet us, but would, on the contrary, leave us two miles farther from our ultimate destination. [7]
- Since visiting Selene the day before he had given himself no farther concern about her. [10]
- It was he, the ambitious artist, though recognition held even farther aloof from his creations than success. [10]
- Napoleon gave orders that the troops should form up on the farther side and wait. [2]
- Despite the fact that her attention had been focussed so strongly on them, the fringe of her vision had included their surroundings, the costly furniture, the piano against the farther wall, the music rack. [9]
- The second squadron that had been in the front line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side of the river. [2]
- On the farther summit, above Anacapri, a precipice of two thousand feet sheer down to the water on the other side, hangs a light cloud. [4]
- Here a door stopped the fugitives; but the architect opened it and helped his friend out of the litter, which before proceeding farther he placed in a room filled with various articles discovered during his investigation of the subterranean temple chambers. [10]
- The genuine precious stone was found farther to the south, on the western shore of the Red Sea, and was highly prized in Egypt. [10]
- At last he started up, and because he had determined to go still farther on this day, did so, though for no other reason than to carry out the plan formed the day before. [10]
- They met at St. Louis, and, farther west, in Kansas. [9]
- At this retired spot one has all the advantages, privately, which are to be had publicly at Monte Carlo and Nice, a few miles farther along. [5]
- Yet, as he spoke, his eyes gazed at something infinitely farther away than the sunset-even to the goal of his desire. [11]
- Henrica's eye, also sparkled approvingly, but suddenly they lost their light, and she stepped farther back into the room, for Maria came out of the workshops in the court-yard and, with her gaze fixed on the ground, walked past the fencers. [10]
- But in cow society there is nothing of this detraction in order to get the first place at the crib, or the farther stall in the stable. [4]
- Necessity drove them so far, and farther they would not go. [7]
- When he did so and heard the subdued moaning with which Karataev generally lay down at the halting places, and when he smelled the odor emanating from him which was now stronger than before, Pierre moved farther away and did not think about him. [2]
- It had stopped snowing long before, and the farther they went the lighter the drifts became. [10]
- The count and Simon galloped out of the wood and saw on their left a wolf which, softly swaying from side to side, was coming at a quiet lope farther to the left to the very place where they were standing. [2]
- On the farther side, in an alcove, was a huge dressing-table; a fire was laid in the grate of the marble mantel, the curtains in the bay window were tightly drawn, and near by was a lounge with a reading-light. [9]
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