There was nothing specific in this apprehension; he merely wished to spare her the embarrassment of being ever so remotely connected with the public washing of the Dorset linen.
And the power to make him so lay in her hand--lay there in a completeness he could not even remotely conjecture.
In other words, democracy is direct rule by the majority, while representative government is rule by a succession of quasi-oligarchies, indirectly andremotely responsible to the majority.
In fact no such extreme is even remotely approached, for a slight movement of money in either direction at once influences prices and sets in motion counteracting forces.
Sidenote: Not a per capita rule] First, the quantity theory does not remotely imply that prices in different countries differ at a given moment according to the per capita money.
While there was an unmistakable air of proprietorship in his manner, he had the delicacy or the cleverness not to allow it to become even remotely oppressive.
In five years, God willing, the circus ring and its spangles will be so remotely removed from her that no one can find the trace of them.
The Egyptians are supposed to affiliate remotely with the Semitic family.
Assuming a change of descent among them from the female line to the male, it must have occurred very remotely from the historical period.
As these tribes themselves sprang remotely from barbarous, and still more remotely from savage ancestors, the distinction of normal and abnormal races falls to the ground.
They derived it from their barbarous ancestors, and more remotely from their savage progenitors.
The Host remained closeted alone with His guest, nor was the sleeping city remotely aware of the import of the conversation they held with each other.
It's remotely possible he's been mixed up in trouble, but Michael seems like a decent sort.
He was unable to surmise even remotely what dire happening it was meant to foretell.
Even that which but remotely menaces should be rendered impotent.
But this attractive maiden has departed, and we did not discover any woman in the region who remotely answers to her description.
They were drilled and disciplined and made into something at least remotely resembling soldiers.
But during a century and a half of remotely separate development, they had had ample time for estrangement of mind and for the breeding of very radical differences of interest, aspirations and opinions.
Industrial cities of importance have arisen where cabins remotely stood.
But it does not even remotely suggest the war-horse sniffing up the battle from afar.
Yonder tottering quadrangular arrangement of chewed string, remotely and inadequately connected at the upper corners, is certainly the young of the horse.
Lancaster Gate looked rich--that was all the effect; which it was unthinkable that any state of his own should ever remotely resemble.
Any thing even remotely resembling that expression I had never seen before.
Still more remotely far, at the hill's rim, was a blur of woods beyond which the sun went down each night.
Then, as her hand was at the door, while the silken rustling of that hurried disentanglement was in her ears, the voice of Wyeth sounded remotely from the rear of the house.
They are germs of the upper status of barbarism, as well as of the earliest status of civilization more remotely to follow.
If this is the case with the District, which is directly concerned, it is pre-eminently so with Maryland and Virginia, who are but indirectly interested, and would be but remotely affected by it.
Although nearly every window in the less frequented streets displayed a card announcing that apartments were to let, she soon discovered how difficult it was to get anything remotely approaching her simple needs.
All of that religion, who had hitherto been members of the league, now forsook it, alleging that even if it had not intentionally excited and encouraged the excesses of the Iconoclasts it had beyond question remotely led to them.
McDonald, I soon learned, was a little village in the central part of New York, remotely situated, and with no railroad or telegraph facilities of any kind.
Bozeman, unlike the other towns which he had passed through upon his journey, was remotely situated as yet from railroad communication, and yet in spite of that fact was a busy and well-populated little town.
The noisy uproar of Broadway chimed remotely in his ears, like the distant roar of a tempest-tossed sea, and what had once been a perpetual annoyance was now a sweet memory.
They, of course, did not even remotely suspect their own cruelty.
The words of parting were more remotely repeated, the hand closed about Arnfinn's half-unfeeling fingers, the lock on the door gave a little sharp click, and all was still.
Hitherto no statesman has arisen in Canada who remotely sensed the impending evil, much less made an effort to avert the doom that has come like a cloud above the well-being of every modern country.
Her soft laugh was free and unconstrained, her smile gay and remotely suggestive of mischief.
It is not even remotely probable that the owner would have covered the ground so quickly as Hobbs, and it is certain that the horses never suspected that they had it in them.
But morality comprehends also the self-regarding virtues, those which directly affect the individual, and which affect society but remotely and incidentally.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remotely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aloof; away; off; vaguely
