In the open courtyard suppliants walked through the gate, raising, when yet
far off, their joined hands above bowed heads, and bending low in the bright stream of sunlight.
There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods,
far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus.
And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes three thousand years ago, "That which is
far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?" two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer
It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how
far off summer is.
To which neither Blifil nor Jones gave any answer; but Thwackum said surlily, "I believe the cause is not far off; if you beat the bushes well you may find her."--"Find her?" replied Western: "what!
Puss is not far off. Here's her form, upon my soul; I believe I may cry stole away." And indeed so he might; for he had now discovered the place whence the poor girl had, at the beginning of the fray, stolen away, upon as many feet as a hare generally uses in travelling.
The carriage never went out on Sundays, because the church was not
far off.
Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so
far off).
The Black Lion was so
far off, and occupied such a length of time in the getting at, that notwithstanding the strong presumptive evidence she had about her of the late events being real and of actual occurrence, Dolly could not divest herself of the belief that she must be in a dream which was lasting all night.
GRANDFATHER had been sitting in his old arm-chair all that pleasant afternoon, while the children were pursuing their various sports
far off or near at hand, Sometimes you would have said, "Grandfather is asleep;" hut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden.
Pierre stood rather
far off and could not hear all that the Emperor said.
The day is not
far off when the beloved leader of Pakistan will be among the people', he remarked.