What is "far from"

Usage examples of "far from".

Then, with the lightning action in which he was such an adept, he noiselessly slipped his hand under the bottom of the tent-cloth, which was far from being pinned tightly down, lifted it a little way, keeping his eye to the hole, snatched the note from her fingers, dropped the canvas, and ran away in the gloom towards the bank and ditch, smiling at the scream of astonishment which burst from her.

Another thirty or forty thousand (the count was far from done) huddled in shocked disbelief under the weapons of their enemies.

The earth was far from young when the huge dinosaur stalked the streets of San Francisco, so lately pictured in one of your papers.

The future, though far from Utopian, was going to be very interesting.

Not far from a window at one side of the room there was a small table on which were a few articles.

Several years ago a preacher of the gospel, stationed not far from the northern frontier of the republic, received by mail one of the seductive missives of Ragem &amp.

An elegant theoretical solution, although, I suspect, actually producing the weapon would be far from simple.

Yurkal was a son of Mother Church, but he was also grateful his dragoons had been deployed so far from the fighting, and—.

My little store of money would soon be exhausted, and since it would be unsafe for me to go on the wharves for work, and I had no introductions elsewhere, the prospect for me was far from cheerful.

The manlike race there had developed a certain level of primitive culture but was still far from space travel.

The bandits might drag him away to be sold so far from Herculaneum, he'd never have a chance to rescue Sibyl and little Lucania.

The image was far from clear, but the individual in it was perhaps a hundred and fifty centimeters tall, red-haired and blue-eyed—.