58 examples of far cry in sentences

It's a far cry from Flamm Avenue to where a classy girl like you can land herself if she steers right.

" This is a far cry from the days when children were taught to address their parents as "honored sir" and "respected madam."

From time to time, Longears or Wolf would stir in their sleep, and growl, engaged in dreaming of some forest adventure which concerned itself with deer or other game; or the far cry of the whip-poor-will would echo through the forest; or the laughter of the owl suddenly come floating on, borne on the chill autumn wind.

Cissie was a far cry from the sort of woman Peter imagined he wanted for a mate; yet he knew that if he stayed on in Hooker's Bend, seeing her, desiring her, with her luxury mocking the loneliness of the old Renfrew manor, presently he would marry her.

[Fr.], out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.

But from a mistake to a crime is a far cry; and it is as a crime that the clergy of Christendom wish us to regard suicide.

It is a far cry from Peshawur to Ajmere, and Linforth travelled in the train for two nights and the greater part of two days before he came to it.

A far cry it seemed from this dusty land to green Devonshire.

It was a far, far cry from Dunoon and the Clyde and the frost upon the heather on the day I had set out.

For all our habit of grouping their works together it is a far cry in spirit and temperament from the dramatists whose heyday was under Elizabeth and those who reached their prime under her successor.

It was a far cry to London, and he realized 'way back in his head that there wasn't one chance in a million of success.

" From Cheshire to East Anglia is a far cry, but let me give one more lesson in the Art of Putting Things, derived from that delightful writer Dr. Jessopp.

And, indeed, it was a far cry frae those early times in London to my American tours.

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WINSTON, JAMES H. It's a far cry.

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PLATO DENOUNCES SYMPATHY From a Canadian Indian to a Greek philosopher it seems a far cry; yet the transition is easy and natural.

It does seem a far cry from this to war, doesn't it?

It is, as I have said, a far cry from Lahore to South Hadley.

And after that there came two from the plains instead of one, and then a far cry to the north and east.

Once in the false dawn a cock crowed, and the shrill, far cry left the raw air emptier and the silence more profound.

But it is, I think, a far cry from such a chief's ghost to the pre-human, angel-served Mtanga.

It is indeed a far cry from these rude defences against wind and weather to the dwelling-houses of the well-to-do family in any country to-day, but the need of the race is just the same: protection, safety from danger, a shield for the young child, a place where it can grow normally in peaceful quiet.

[203] The original is, "as yet Dilli is a long way off," a proverb like that of the Campbells"It is a far cry to Loch Awe.

58 examples of  far cry  in sentences