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"Far cry" Quotes from Famous Books

... and enthusiasm, the three graces of salesmanship, thrive best in bright places. Had it not been for his wife's cheer during those final hours young Mitchell surely would have weakened before it came time to leave on the following day. 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. He began to doubt, to waver, but the girl seemed to feel that her lord was bound upon some flaring triumph, and even at the station her face was ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... far cry to the little book shop off Cooper Square, but Karl was calling for Rudolph when he next awoke to the realization that he was still in the land of the living. His head was bandaged and his tongue furry. A terrible hangover. Then ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

... stepping through this natural screen, I stumbled into a bush and presently found myself standing in a small copse dim-lighted by a waning moon; and never a sound to be heard save the soft whisper of leaves about us and the faint, far cry of ...

— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol

... a far cry from the woman so enshrined to the child of seventeen years who was without "fit and matchable conversation" for her irritable, ...

— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning

... members of a civilized community, are less likely to be in conflict than those of their primitive cave-dwelling forerunners may be freely conceded. But from such relative harmony to a complete identity of interests seems a far cry. ...

— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton

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