She pressed his hand rapturously between her two, dropped it playfully, and saw that there had come between them a nearness and a farness different from any that had ever been.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable
At times I lose the sense of farness, and can feel him almost near.
"Molly Bawn"
Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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.
"The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes"
Thomas Hardy