But those privileged to know him intimately recognised the nobleness of his character and can realise the justice and force of Hooker's words when he heard of his death: "My loved, my best friend, for well nigh forty years of my life.
Further, the great eastern mass of land is so intimately connected with North America that this continent has much more in common with Europe and Asia than with South America.
The two points are intimately connected, for it is only when the masses are moved into the foreground that regularity, uniformity, and law can be conceived as applicable.
Those who knew Lyell intimately will recognise the truth of the portrait drawn by his dearest friend, and I believe that posterity will endorse Darwin's deliberate verdict concerning the value of his labours.
It is not certain whether the Habsburgs were of Swiss or of Swabian birth, but certainly their early history is mostintimately bound up with the Swiss canton.
Zwingli and Calvin: Rousseau and Voltaire--those are four names of men intimately associated with Switzerland who were destined to have a vast effect on the thought of the world, in regard both to moral and social ideas.
The minute and intermediate vessels are more intimately connected than any other part with the construction and with the function of the living matter of which the body is composed.
It still remains a rare and almost unheard-of thing for an anthropologist to be on such friendly terms with a savage as to get him to talk intimately about himself, and reveal the real man within.
Nevertheless, any friend who knows you both intimately will discover fifty little things that bespeak in you the same underlying nature and bent.
He appeared to be intimately acquainted with all the "professional" world, and more particularly with the actresses.
Fresnel, Governor of Clermont-en-Argonne, who was intimately acquainted with the military resources of that part of France.
He would, I think, have been regarded as a remarkable man under any circumstances, by all who would have intimately known him, but he was born to be great in the career in which he was so successful.
It is not in man, certainly not in a man so finely fibered and strung as St. John, to associate intimately with his fellows without feeling their forces upon himself, and finding many things in himself of which he had not dreamed.
It was impossible for a nature at once so sympathetic and so transparent as hers to mingle intimately with another without learning and betraying much.
She was intimately associated with people who seemed to her to live practically on the same plan.
So intimately is the question of its political constitution connected with the tenure of land that it is impossible to avoid giving it at some length.
To any one intimately acquainted with the people these facts are perfectly consistent, though it is a little difficult to reconcile them in cold print.
And before dying, to become humbly indispensable to her, to know her more intimately than any one had ever known her, to take up every moment of her time!
You know I have known you very intimately and served you very faithfully for an immensely long time.
Though he had held but slight converse with his youthful compagnon du voyage, and knew but little either of her moral or intellectual character, he was nevertheless most intimately acquainted with her personal appearance.
But by the generations that have succeeded he has been less intimately known than many of his compatriots, who lived longer, and reached stations which he never occupied.
He was incapable, however, of realising that there existed a subtler form of law-breaking, arising from something more intimately associated with the psychic than the material plane.
Malcolm Sage's "cases" he studied as intimately as he could from his position as junior; but they disappointed him.
Austria, being more intimately concerned with the political condition of the Italian peninsula than either of the other two powers, was entrusted with the task of suppressing the Neapolitan revolution.
Woman is more intimately and irresponsibly a child of Nature than man.
There are even a few events in the past that I am not intimately acquainted with.
Consequently, though his and Rodney's common friendship for the Lakes had drawn him rather intimately into their circle, his attitude toward Rose herself throughout had remained deliberately detached and impersonal.
Both realized that they were more efficient as partners from not going too intimately into each other's outside affairs.
Intimately as I thought I knew Mr. Dodgson during his life, I seem since his death to have become still better acquainted with him.
The beaver is intimately associated with the natural resources, soil, and water.
No boy or girl can become intimately acquainted with the ways and works of these primitive folk without having the eyes of observation opened, and acquiring a permanent interest in the wide world in which we live.
That the prostate gland is intimately associated with reproduction is evident from the fact that in those male animals that have suffered castration before puberty, the prostate gland withers and practically disappears.
The noblest of the breathing-spaces on our borders, it is also the most accessible, and more or less well known to tens of thousands of persons; but it is probably intimately known only to a few.
Here the speaker made an impressive pause, as though to allow the statement to be thoroughly absorbed by the understanding of those most intimately concerned.
The last sign is so intimately connected with that for hunger, that no translation can be made.
Separate words may also be comprehended by persons hearing them without the whole connected sense of the words taken together being caught, but signs are more intimately connected.
Of course, the daily history of the appearance and disappearance of light is intimately connected with the apparent motion of the sun.
There is irrefragable evidence that these myths and this ideal of the hero-god, were intimately known and widely current in America long before any one of its millions of inhabitants had ever seen a white man.
These two had been so long and so intimately associated, that in habits and want of feeling they seemed identical.
So intimately was it connected with every interest in the country, that its passing out of existence threatened universal bankruptcy.
Of this remarkable person, so intimately connected with the main events of the history about to be related, it may be proper to offer some preliminary account.
You shall become more intimately acquainted with my worship's boots, rascal, if I find my suspicions correct," rejoined Catesby.
