Then for an instant, though so alive to her, he seemed to withdraw into remote cogitation, and she wondered whether he was really thinking of the case at all.
Reardon assented, in evident relief, at so remote a topic.
She had the remote air of hating her state of age, which did not seem a natural necessity but a unique calamity, a trap sprung on her and, after the nature of traps, most unexpectedly.
There are others the subtle, minor harmonies of which belong to and represent remote pathetic phases of human passion, and they, too, are heard by us in lonely hours of pitiful feeling, and enchant the ear and heart.
It was owing also to his wife, whose relation to him was frank on all points, that Browning saw so much more clearly than other poets into the deep, curious or remote phases of the passions, thoughts and vagaries of womanhood.
Yet how few in this long poem, how remote from Browning's heart, are these touches of Nature.
It is drawn to illustrate some remote point in the argument, and is far too magnificent for the thing it illustrates.
Strange boats, filled with outlandish figures, who played on unknown instruments, and sang of deeds and passions remote from common life, sailed by on its stormy waters.
Then is the hour of passion, but even in its fervour he draws a conclusion, belonging to a higher world than youthful love, as remote from it as his description of the scenery and the ruins.
It was generations back to the D'Aubignés, yet now and then some remote ancestor would reach up out of the shadowy past to lay a compelling finger on the latest daughter of his race.
As from a remote distance he could hear Spider Hagerty saying to him: "No layin' down at the start.
One thinks of those communities of monks in the Middle Ages, scattered over this wild region and holding rare converse with one another by gloomy forest paths--how remote their life and ideals!
But Copertino is a remotelittle place, already famous in the annals of miraculous occurrences.
No sanctuary or cave so remote that she did not endeavour to expel its male saint--its old presiding genius, whether Byzantine or Roman.
After some further liquid refreshment, a youthful native volunteered to guide me by short cuts to the remote railway station.
But there seem to be no walks hereabouts, and the hills, three miles distant, are too remote for my reduced vitality.
And how unbelievably remoteis that Bartolozzi-Hellenism which went before!
But many of them, like this of Patir, are too decayed andremote from the life of man.
My own dragon theory is far-fetched--perhaps necessarily so, dragons being somewhat remote animals.
It is doubtful whether the custom goes back into remote antiquity, for the climate used to be moister and could dispense with these practices.
But how remote it becomes, when one remembers the case of Herculaneum!
But it is not only in remote country places that the superstition prevails, but here in London, among most of the upper middle classes.
Here, as in Korea, Japanese administration has introduced great changes, and it is difficult to realize that railways and electric lights are to be found in this remote part of the earth.
Trolley cars are a convenience in the cities, and often take one to quite remote places in the country as well.
Similar customs and beliefs survived till recent years in some of the remote country villages of the picturesque district known as the Bocage of Normandy.
There can be little doubt that this curious old custom dates from a very remote antiquity.
There can be no doubt but that a belief prevailed until a very recent period, amongst the small farmers in the districts remote from towns in Cornwall, that a living sacrifice appeased the wrath of God.
Indeed there is no Serbian to be found, even in the most remote districts, who has not a great love for Kralyevitch Marko, and who cannot tell his story.
Then even in this remote town the artful Wenceslas maintained his agent!
As the visitors entered, a comely young woman who had just lighted an oil-burning "student" lamp and placed it upon the center table, disappeared into one of the more remote rooms.
I did not, however, know it had so remote an origin as in the reign of Elizabeth; and suspect it may still be freshened up, and varnished over, for any present occasion.
It is a work which forms an epoch in the history of the human mind in our country; but the author had anticipated a very remote period of its enlargement.
In those crucial days Washington seemed to the homesteaders as remote as the golden gates.
They had been accustomed to landing a settler once in a blue moon, driving the "prospect" over miles of plain, showing him land in various remote districts in the hope that he would find some to suit him.
These stockman-settler wars, however, were not yet a thing of the past, and despite the years of western development that followed, they continued to break out every now and then in remote range country.
One morning Imbert Miller came with his team and buggy to take us out into a more remote district to get signers.
They had to be imported from some remote section of the West.
Certainly; but I might also say that the one class are more impressive and thus even in the present, seem like remote historical personages.
The little, gray-haired man must have thought himself quite young to talk thus of the end of his days as a thing of the remote future.
The moon,--have you ever seen it soremote and chill?
It made objects remote and unreal and singularly shining.
Her finger tips met mine as we walked back together, but the touch was as remote as the brushing of the pine boughs on my cheek.
His magnetized telegraph wire stretched from one room to another located in a remote part of the building.
In remote sections, insanity, especially among women, is frequently the result of loneliness, a calamity which the telephone is doing much to mitigate.
One of them, and to me it was a very great one indeed, was that Morstone was situated in a remote village on the east coast, on the edge of vast saltings or sea marshes intersected by great creeks of sullen, tidal water.
The trees led a life of conflict; they were accustomed to swing there all night long in fierce winter tempests; it was a remoteand savage place, where even the pheasants of Lord Blankington hardly ever came.
Many interests are so woven among each other, as not to be disentangled without long inquiry; many arts are industriously kept secret, and many practices, necessary to be known, are carried on in parts tooremote for intelligence.
Whatever is remote from common appearances is always welcome to vulgar, as to childish credulity; and of a country unenlightened by learning, the whole people is the vulgar.
Let us suppose an inhabitant of some remote and superiour region, yet unskilled in the ways of men, having read and considered the precepts of the gospel, and the example of our Saviour, to come down in search of the true church.
The genius of the tragick and comick writer will be easily allowed to be remote from each other.
Hence, not only do we exclude from our range all that concerns the ascetic life and the more intimate relations of religion, but we most willingly devote ourselves to the treatment of subjects quite remote from all religious bearing.
The liberty aimed at by the Levellers was as remote from that which the Middle Ages had handed down, as the power of the Stuarts from the mediaeval monarchy.
As many things remote from current knowledge grew to be certainties, he became more confident, more independent, and more isolated.
We endeavoured not many months ago to show how remote the theology of Catholic Germany is in its scientific spirit from that of other countries, and how far asunder are science and policy.
But here we must remember what he said once of the political sphere--that neither liberty nor authority is conceivable except in an ordered society, and that they are both relative to conditions remote alike from anarchy and tyranny.
Nothing can be moreremote from the political notions of monarchy than the authority of the Pope.
From remote districts where their prospectuses had been circulated, money came pouring in.
This conflagration of the universe, which Gallio and the Stoics foresaw in a future so remote that they none the less announced the eternity of the Empire, Paul believed to be quite close at hand, and was preparing for that great day.
They reveal themselves,” he said, “in the most remote parts of our own Spain.
Insignificant in size it certainly was, but we must not forget its costly splendour, the remote age in which the work was achieved, and the truly stupendous constructions which the design required.
The multitudes who lived in remote country places would no longer be able to join in forms of worship which had been carried on at local shrines.
The storm had passed, although thunder was still audible dimly, like the roll of muffled drums or a remote bombardment.
