"Afar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hamet el Zegri, had careered wide over the Campina of Utrera, encompassing the flocks and herds, when he heard the burst of war at a distance. There were with him but a handful of his Gomeres. He saw the scamper and pursuit afar off, and beheld the Christian horsemen spurring madly toward the ambuscade on the banks of the Lopera. Hamet tossed his hand triumphantly aloft for his men to follow him. "The Christian dogs are ours!" said he as he put spurs to his horse to take ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving
... afar off, they conspired against him, to slay him. Their first plan was to set dogs on him. Simon then spoke to Levi, "Behold, the master of dreams cometh with a new dream, he whose descendant Jeroboam ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... land that is fairer than day, And by faith we can see it afar, For the Father waits over the way, To prepare us a dwelling place there. ||: In the sweet by-and-bye, We shall meet on that ...
— Indian Methodist Hymn-book • Various
... at me from a hoarding near Adelphi Terrace; I saw it afar off near Carfax Street; it cried out again upon me in Kensington High Street, and burst into a perfect clamour; six or seven times I saw it as I drew near my diggings. It certainly had an air of being something ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... Let me hear your voice. I hear strange murmurs afar off; but not the voice of my son. Are you there, Philip, ...
— Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession • Benjamin Wood
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