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AFAR
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
Example:
the Magi came from afar
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Context examples:
My eyes strained eagerly across the great plain in the hope of seeing afar off the help for which we had prayed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, too, she loved nature, and with generous imagination he changed the scene of their reading—sometimes they read in closed-in valleys with precipitous walls, or in high mountain meadows, and, again, down by the gray sand-dunes with a wreath of billows at their feet, or afar on some volcanic tropic isle where waterfalls descended and became mist, reaching the sea in vapor veils that swayed and shivered to every vagrant wisp of wind.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Nay, in himself he is not one to retire and stay afar.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel: “Never leave me, and I will never leave you.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Once more also we were able to communicate with Zambo, who had been terrified by the spectacle from afar of an avalanche of apes falling from the edge of the cliff.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some such picture, with no real world in it, bright with the light of our innocence, and vague as the stars afar off, was in my mind all the way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Jo went prepared to bow down and adore the mighty ones whom she had worshiped with youthful enthusiasm afar off.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
God had an errand for me; to bear which afar, to deliver it well, skill and strength, courage and eloquence, the best qualifications of soldier, statesman, and orator, were all needed: for these all centre in the good missionary.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The gentle rustle of the branches and the distant cooing of pigeons were the only sounds which broke in upon the silence, save that once Alleyne heard afar off a merry call upon a hunting bugle and the shrill yapping of the hounds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have worshipped You long and afar off.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
