The apparition of extended camp fires and a great beacon afar off came suddenly upon us as out of the very darkness.
And his sister stood afar off to see what would be done to him.
The thought of heaven's great King afar But humbles us--too weak to scan; But manly greatness men can span, And feel the bonds that draw.
Knowing not they already slept afar Each of them in his own dear native land.
Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
Dame Nature hath her lent A warte upon her cheke, Who so lyst to seke In her vyságe a skar, That semyth from afar Lyke to the radyant star, All with favour fret, So properly it is set.
Julie, who knew my dislike to meeting strangers at her house, had devised with me a signal which should inform me from afar of the presence or absence of visitors in her little drawing-room.
From thence the eye discovers from afar the rare passengers that intrude on the solitude of the place.
Fair was the chief as the morning-star; His eyes were mild and his words were low, But his heart was stouter than lance or bow; And her young heart flew to her love afar O'er his trail long covered with drifted snow.
The vulture, perched hard by the eagle's crag, Loud cawed his fellows from afar to feast.
I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Sunrise-sea.
The first of the brave brotherhood that, threading the fens and the forest, Stood afar by the turbulent flood at the falls of the Father of Waters.
Now afar o'er the plains of the west walked the sun at the end of his journey, And forth came the brave and the guest, at the tap of the drum, for the trial.
And bright from her lodge in the skies afar Peeps the glowing face of the Virgin Star.
I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry.
And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.
To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.
But he worshiped 'em, and gloried in the idee of goin' afarto show 'em off.
And not only did they cast a doubt upon their right divine, but when they saw them from afar the spirit of rebellion seemed to increase.
He asked for a gun, and followed from afar by the pallid damsels, he beat the wood.
Nothing left to do but enjoy beauty from afar off "Oh!
All the while the little old lady stood afar off, holding the key, which we did not get until we had paid for it.
How quiet its slumbers in the dark pool of the rocks while the waters are afar out, but watch it when the tide turns.
Perhaps I am not made obnoxious to much suffering, but I have had happy hours enough in gazing from afar at the splendors of the Intellectual Law, to overpay me for any pains I know.
And now it was Arthur's voice that rose in the shop; and it seemed that he spoke of his brother as of one who was afar off.
The place commanded a fair view of the lake, and thence it was possible to see afar off any boat that approached St. Agatha's or Glenarm.
I seemed to hear from afar the sudden burst and spread of outcrying terror, as the pale savage bounded from house to house, rending and slaying.
She is far away from us, afar in the hell of her self-consciousness.
The greatness of your commission consists in this: You are to hold the keys of this ministry; you are to go to the nations afar off; nations that sit in darkness.
The men whom he most liked were gone, and the few among the women who might have been his friends seemed now to standafar off.
Above and around, all the air was sounding with the gay tripping music of the three bells as they rang together: a laughing song in the glad sunshine, summoning from afar the people who came from every side, clad in their best.
Greeting the old man from afar with low bows, they said: “Praised be Jesus Christ.
As soon as he caught sight of the Count, he snatched the cap from his head, and honoured with a bow the kinsman of his lords, inclining a great bald pate that shone from afar and was slashed with many a sabre, like a chopping-block.
Hearing from afar the trampling of his comrades, he motioned to them with his hand to stop their horses: they halted.
Despairingly, she observed how the sun dipped, and ever dipped toward the west, when suddenly a sound afar rekindled her fainting spirits.
Sometimes, as he sat writing at his table, he would hear from afar a light quick step, and then a sudden stop under the windows.
So Joe Drew keeps his lantern up at night that others may see the signal from afar and come without delay to the waters.
Leslie Chermside had been covertly watching from afar Violet's animated interview with Nugent, and seeing her coming towards him he hastened to meet her.
He hurried off, and Mr. Mallory watched from afar the result of the whispered communication which he made to the aged spinster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
