"Far-flung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... uncharted snow-fields glittering like dust of diamonds, they crossed the Pass,—Lenox's own Pass, that no living man had set eyes or foot upon,—and looked at last on that elusive 'other side,' that draws certain natures like a magnet to the far-flung ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... breezes That blow "o'er Ceylon's isle" (While HEBER mostly pleases His accent here is vile)— Of some far-flung plantation Where Hindus bend the knee; And would my occupation ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 • Various
... hedge, a motor-car drew up, honking, at the curb, two far-flung paths of light whitening the street and a disused iron negro-boy hitching-post. Miss Goldstone ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... of the Duchess Helen, Spring was come, and all things spake to her of coming joys undreamed till now as she hasted on, flitting through the pallid moonbeams that, falling athwart rugged hole and far-flung branch, splashed the gloom with radiant light. Once she paused to listen, but heard nought save the murmur of the brook and the faint stirring of leaves. And now, clear and strong the tender radiance fell athwart the lonely habitation and her heart leapt at the sight, ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol
... unprecedented splendour; the press of the Empire and the United States was filled with the record of his movements; the representatives of the Courts of Europe had arrived or were arriving; the Prime Ministers of a dozen countries and the Governors of many other countries of his far-flung realm were in London; dense crowds were swarming through the streets of the gaily-decorated metropolis; the approaching day was being looked forward to by many millions of people in many lands as an evidence, in its successful splendour, of the power and prosperity of the Empire. Three ...
— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins
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