Citations:afar

English citations of afar

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1. (English adverb)
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 15:40:

     There were alſo women looking on afarre off, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Iames the leſſe, and of Ioſes, and Salome:

   • 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Parted Presence, lines 8-9

     Your eyes are afar to-day,

     Yet, love, look now in mine eyes.

   • 2005, Parmenides, On nature. In: Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237b.

     And you, from this way of enquiry, must keep your thought afar.