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  • Well, there's many a language nowadays in state of far-going flux and Hebrew carries a really heavy load of history!

    languagehat.com: HEBREW OR ISRAELI? 2005

  • This new language model is based on two principles: first, on far-going metaphorisation, which means that as much words as possible are replaced by metaphores.

    languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

  • Now I would be my own mule, patient, and long-suffering, and far-going, with naked feet hardened to hoofs, and a pack of provender on my back to make me independent of the dry, bitter grass on the sunburnt savannahs.

    Green Mansions 2004

  • All, however, agreed in saying that Mr. Slope was to be debarred from opening his mouth in the cathedral of Barchester; many believed that the vergers were to be ordered to refuse him even the accommodation of a seat; and some of the most far-going advocates for strong measures declared that his sermon was looked upon as an indictable offence, and that proceedings were to be taken against him for brawling.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • There are weak and faint activities, and there are some, even, that do not appear; but there are also things whose activities are great and far-going; in the case of these the activity must be thought of as being lodged, both in the active and powerful source and in the point at which it settles.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Yet his attachment to the rationalistic philosophy of Wolff and the far-going concessions he made to religious toleration and Febronianism led him astray and marred the lustre of his merits.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Now I would be my own mule, patient, and long-suffering, and far-going, with naked feet hardened to hoofs, and a pack of provender on my back to make me independent of the dry, bitter grass on the sunburnt savannahs.

    Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest 1881

  • As the dawn in the Vedic hymns is called Urûkî, the far-going (Têlephassa, Têlephos), so is she also Uruasî, the wide-existing or wide-spreading; as are Eurôpê,

    Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

  • She had stopped too, without noticing him, and stood sending an intent, fixed, far-going look into the pretty wilderness of rock and wood on the other side of the way.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • She had stopped too, without noticing him, and stood sending an intent, fixed, far-going look into the pretty wilderness of rock and wood on the other side of the way.

    Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

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