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1617 Bruce's Way to True Peace & Rest 77 Thou hast thy soule poured forth on some villany and wickednesse, and hast sent it farre afield.

1745 Scots Mag. Apr. 176/1 Imagination wanders far afield.

1792 Analyt. Rev. Aug. 413 Doubtless some few there are, Who for knights errant, Need not, I'll warrant, To wander far afield.

1833 I. P. Cory Metaphys. Inq. 80 Whilst conjecture runs furthest afield, truth is often overlooked.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xi. 166 I had..never been farther a-field than Fulham or Battersea Rise.

1880 T. A. Spalding Elizabethan Demonol. 9 It will prevent the student from straying too far afield in his reading.

1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xxiv. 265 Mary Isbister came in with a long story of a hen that had laid far afield and hatched a misbegotten brood, and now brought them home to be cared for.

1960 F. G. Bailey Tribe, Caste, & Nation i. iv. 86 The sisters of the Baderi men do not marry any further afield than they did in the time when the area was not pacified, nor do the men of Baderi go further afield in search of brides.

1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue iii. 42 Catalan, a language midway between Spanish and French, spoken by 250,000 people principally in Catalonia but also as far afield as Roussillon in France, was likewise long banned in Spain.

2009 J. Lethem Chronic City v. 74 Aboveground, he walked north on Sixth. This was the farthest afield Perkus had traveled in many months, perhaps in over a year.