far from the madding crowd

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in a quiet, restful place. (From Thomas Gray's poem, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.") Julia sat daydreaming at her desk, wishing she were far from the madding crowd. Jane: Where shall we go this weekend? Alan: Anywhere, as long as it's far from the madding crowd.

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I agreed with George, and suggested that we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint. Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context			familiarize with family family that prays together stays together famous last words fan fan of fan out fan the breeze fan the flames fancy fancy as fancy chances fancy footwork Fancy meeting you here! Fancy that! fancy-pants fanny far far and away the best far and wide far be it from me far be it from me to far cry from far from far from it far from the madding crowd far gone far into the night far out faraway look farm farm out fart fart around fashion fashion into fashion on fashion out of fast fast and furious fast friends fast one fast-talk into fast-talk out of fasten fasten down fasten on fasten to fasten up faster and faster fat			Far End Alarm Far End Alarm and Control Far End Alarm Channel Far End Block Error-Fast Far End Block Error-Interleaved Far End Block Error-Line Far End Block Error-Path Far End Camera Control Far End Converter Far End Fault Alarm Far End Loop Back Far End Performance Monitoring Far End Reporting Failure Far Far Away far fetched Far field Far field Far field Far Field Monitor far from Far from a Masterpiece Far From Close Far from Finished Far from Home far from it Far from Kansas far from the madding crowd far from the point far gone Far Headingley Dental Care Far Hills Country Day School Far Horizons Tucson Village Far infrared Far infrared Far infrared Far infrared Far Infrared Absolute Spectraphotometer Far Infrared Absolute Spectrometer Far Infrared Background Far Infrared Experiment Far Infrared Fabry-Perot Interferometer Far Infrared Limb Observing Spectrometer Far Infrared Space Telescope Far Infrared Survey Far Infrared Target Detector Far Infrasound far into the night Far Lands or Bust far left Far month Far Months Far More Than Everything You Ever Wanted To Know

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