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FAR AND WIDE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Over great areas or distances; everywhere
Example:
searched for the child far and near
Synonyms:
far and near; far and wide
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Context examples:
As "the Fighting Wolf" he was known far and wide, and the cage in which he was kept on the steam-boat's deck was usually surrounded by curious men.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I remember one beautiful day, when the boats left early and the reports of the hunters’ guns grew dim and distant and died away as they scattered far and wide over the sea.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Far and wide, on each side, there were only fields, where no cattle now browsed; and the little brown birds, which stirred occasionally in the hedge, looked like single russet leaves that had forgotten to drop.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Sun will take the goodness of Jupiter and expand it far and wide—and all this happens in your house of truelove.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He ranged far and wide, and slept but little in the lair that had now become cheerless and miserable.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
