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AFAR

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Traducere în limba română

afar adverb

(mai ales afar off) departe, în depărtare, hăt departe;

from afar din depărtare, de departe.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Yet I was so certain that the prospect of such a sacrifice afar off, must destroy the happiness of Agnes; and I was so sure, from her manner, of its being unseen by her then, and having cast no shadow on her yet; that I could as soon have injured her, as given her any warning of what impended.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I will soon find out where she is, however, said the star-gazer, as he looked through his glass; and he soon cried out, I see her afar off, sitting upon a rock in the sea, and I can spy the dragon close by, guarding her.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

But about midnight, when the robbers saw from afar that the lights were out and that all seemed quiet, they began to think that they had been in too great a hurry to run away; and one of them, who was bolder than the rest, went to see what was going on.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The good little duck did so, and when they were once safely across and had walked for a short time, the forest seemed to be more and more familiar to them, and at length they saw from afar their father’s house.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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