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Far cry

noun

Distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry.

A disappointing disparity.

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... It is a far cry from the woman so enshrined to the child of seventeen years who was without "fit and matchable conversation" ...

— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning

... this may continue who can say? It is a far cry to 1985. Science may by that time have squeezed out literature, and the author of the Lives of the Poets may be dimly remembered as an odd fellow who lived in the Dark Ages, and had a very creditable fancy ...

— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell

... defective, while, so far as one may judge from the few dates appended to the poems, the later productions seem not to be the best. Nevertheless, his little volume stimulates to large reviews and fair anticipations. It is a far cry from "Swing low, sweet chariot"—an articulate stirring of poetic fancy, but hardly more than that—to Mr. ...

— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... famous vow at Bethel—"If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God." This is a far cry from the noble protestation of Job which sounds still across the years: "Though he slay me, still will I trust ...

— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

... a far cry to Twachtman, who presents a peculiar combination of Whistlerian tonality with the methods of the modern impressionist. His work is relatively high in key, and devoid of any colour resembling black. The covered skies of early morning, before the breaking through of the sun, are his chief ...

— The Galleries of the Exposition • Eugen Neuhaus

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