Far-off

Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

Alice! a childish story take, / And with a gentle hand / Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined / In Memory's mystic band, / Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers / Pluck'd in a far-off land.

A grove stood in the city, rich in shade, / where storm-tost Tyrians, past the perilous brine, / dug from the ground, by royal Juno's aid, / a war-steed's head, to far-off days a sign / that wealth and prowess should adorn the line.

After months of testing, a European space telescope finally begins its work studying far-off planets.

Ziri was on vacation on a far-off island.

She's from a far-off land.

The boy strained his eyes also; yet neither could he see the far-off city.

Many people used to be mapmakers in the wonderful art of cartography. They made maps on wood and hide and paper and stone. They painted or drew. They used charcoal or carved with knives; embellishing and decorating sea monsters and far-off places where people roamed.

She dreamed of traveling to far-off lands.

Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild - and perhaps with as respectable a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.