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“The summer before my senior year, the only job I could get was at Farmer John’s slaughterhouse on the far east side of L.A. Work started at 6 a.m., so I was on the bus at four thirty every weekday morning.”
“Peregrine Jay and Jeremy Jones were not far east along the Embankment.”
“The latter are themselves subdivided into the Thalhthans, so called after their general rendezvous at the confluence of the river of the same name with the Stickine, and the Takus,. whose territory is the basin of the Taku River, together with the upper portions of the streams which flow northward to the Lewes, as far east as the upper Liard”
“At the time the diocese embraced the country of the Upper Isar as far east as the Inn and south to the watershed of the Inn and the”
“Arabia, Mesopotamia and Babylonia; on the other hand mizrach is used of the far east with a less definite signification.”
“Micmacs of Restigouche, and as far east as Isle Saint-Jean (Prince”
“The two columns were to join at New Market, whence I intended to cross the James River at some point east of Lynchburg, if practicable, so as to make my way to Appomattox Court House, and destroy the Southside railroad as far east as Farmville.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“He travelled as far east as Tchistopol, on the Volga, and south as far as Odessa, on the Black Sea, trying his luck at various occupations within the usual Jewish restrictions.”
“Abandoning his initial idea of moving as far east as possible before turning northwards against the enemy flank, Cowdray now told D Squadron to give flank protection to the east (where a troop of A Squadron RCD and the Vandoos along with the remnants of Oscar Company, were putting the brake to further Soviet penetrations), and have C Squadron emerge obliquely from Oos, among the woods, steering the axis of advance towards Blickheim, with the intention of driving a wedge into the centre and rear of the advancing enemy mass, thus cutting the spearhead from its shaft.”
“The men now became more than ever discontented at the easterly course, and on May 1st, when he had come as far east as the Gulf of Darien, Columbus felt obliged to bear away to the north, although as it turned out he had not nearly made enough easting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘far east’.
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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far and away
figurative distance
darkest africa, outer mongolia, other side of the..., end of the earth, north pole, great white north, outback, wild west, far east, down under, distant shores, back of beyond and 24 more...
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bilby Ooh, just think of how exotic and wistful that makes us, frin! Oct 12, 2008
frindley It amuses me as an Australian how, when visiting London-based artists agents and managers, I would arrive to see that they had their "Far East" file ready on the desk. I've never thought of Australia as being part of the Far East, but I guess to them it is. Oct 12, 2008