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Further off

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not so near; apart by a greater distance.

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Behind the city swept the rotund upland of St Catherine's Hill; further off, landscape beyond landscape, till the horizon was lost in the radiance of the sun hanging above it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
When a body left to itself falls to the surface of the earth, it falls five feet in the first second; and if the same body were removed 257,542 miles further off, in other words, to the distance of the moon, its fall would be reduced to about half a line in the first second.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Casaubon did not question her further, but he felt sure that she had wished to know what had passed between Lydgate and himself "She knows that I know," said the ever-restless voice within; but that increase of tacit knowledge only thrust further off any confidence between them.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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