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No farther

Farther \Far"ther\, adv.

  1. At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.

  2. Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event.

    No farther, (used elliptically for) go no farther; say no more, etc.

    It will be dangerous to go on. No farther !
    --Shak.

Usage examples of "no farther".

Without it the general theory of relativity, of which the fundamental ideas are developed in the following pages, would perhaps have got no farther than its long clothes.

When he tried to shove it, he found that it could only be drawn back from the vicinity of the table far enough for some one to be seated, no farther.

Then there was a solid wall of roots and they could go no farther.

It would surely have a litter this year, likely within a mile or so and probably somewhat closer, for they ranged no farther than necessary from the den-bound pups and mother.

Shortly after, I managed to subdue my aversion so far as to take a good shoe which a one-legged dead man had no farther use for, and a little later a comrade gave me for the other foot a boot bottom from which he had cut the top to make a bucket.

The petty arts of coquetry were no farther from it than the numbness of the untaught girl.

But since the Church of God has waited so long for you to repent and acknowledge your guilt, and you have refused and still refuse, her grace and mercy can go no farther.

If anyone recorded them, it would almost certainly be for Judith Niles' own benefit, and would go no farther.

Then the onions I had eaten in Wilmington began to rebel, and incite the bread, meat and coffee to gastric insurrection, and I became so utterly wretched that life had no farther attractions.

Water winked in it, no farther down than the sea was beneath the dome.

However, he would (as he said) debate that matter no farther, because he was more desirous to know my own story, the country where I was born, and the several actions and events of my life before I came hither.

My answer was, that I durst proceed no farther in my relation, unless he would give me his word and honour that he would not be offended, and then I would tell him the wonders I had so often promised.

The subject was pursued no farther, and the gentlemen soon afterwards went away.