He said to himself, in their safe remoteness from each other, that he wished he could do something for Jackson.
At last she said, with sufficient apparent remoteness from the subject they had dropped: "Jeff, I don't know whether you want me to talk about it.
There was an indescribable remotenessabout the young Roman that repelled, without effort and without offence, any approach at familiarity.
When once we have read them the poets they describe are for ever delivered from the remoteness of mere fame.
Mere remoteness of date or place has nothing to say to the matter.
His grayness and the bleak remoteness of his air made him seem unreal as a spirit come back to haunt the scene of long-ago triumphs or defeats.
The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries, and sometimes not the fewer, because its origin is hidden in remoteness and obscurity.
The low hum of her spinning filled the air, and she seemed to be wrapped about by an atmosphere of remoteness and memory.
There was suddenly a fine remoteness in her presence, as if a frosty air had come between them.
The Parliamentary fortunes of the Catholic question varied with the fortunes of the war, and the remoteness of external danger.
The remoteness of Magruder and Huger, and the impossibility of sufficient secrecy in the transfer of any portion of their commands to the theatre of operations, placed them outside of the calculation.
Even when supplies were abundant in many quarters, the armies in the field suffered actual want, in consequence of the want of transportation, and of the remoteness of the supplies from the lines of the railroads.
The remoteness of Missouri from the seat of government, and the inadequate transportation, prevented that prompt and efficient aid by the Confederate authorities which it was equally their interest and inclination to afford.
It is doubted by many, whether meteorology will ever be well understood, on account of the complexity of the forces concerned, and their remoteness from the apprehension of the senses.
Nothing could have sunk this author into obscurity but the remoteness and barbarity of the people whose story he relates.
It should rather be an expression of his grand unnatural remoteness from the cloddish life.
In her enigmatic remoteness Jenny was a little disquieting.
Could any picture contain more of that remoteness of the world of our real heart as well as our real eye, the artist's eye which visits that world in no official sense but only as a guest or a courtly spectator?
The great difference lay in the Legislature, and was the result of different degrees of remotenessfrom the seat of power.
His predominant feeling was still that of remoteness from the immediate issues of life: the soeva indignatio had been succeeded by a great calm.
As she spoke there flashed on Odo the reason of her remoteness and composure.
But the evil of remoteness operates more frequently, and with much cruelty, against the visits of poor persons to see their afflicted relatives in asylums.
For purposes of lighting, if this be the presumed object of these attendant bodies, it would have been far better had the larger been the nearer: at present, their remoteness renders them of less service than the smallest.
In the opposite direction the hay-field stretched away into remoteness till it was lost to the eye in a soft mist.
It teacheth lamentation and moaning to the nightingales warbling upon the bough of remoteness and bereavement, instructeth them in the art of love’s ways, and showeth them the secret of heart-surrender.
His note or call is not musical but loud, and has in a remarkable degree the quality of remoteness and introvertedness.
Why find fault with the isolation and the remoteness in view of the sky-like purity and depth?
The remoteness of, greatly in favour of the European colonies there, 232.
The remoteness of America and the West Indies greatly in favour of the European colonies there, ib.
The term, therefore, allowed, for the indemnification of the landlord, ought not to be a great deal longer than what was necessary for that purpose, lest the remoteness of the interest should discourage too much this attention.
Under such conditions every consideration of proximity and remoteness is obliterated.
He Who is the Day Spring of Truth is, no doubt, fully capable of rescuing from suchremoteness wayward souls and of causing them to draw nigh unto His court and attain His Presence.
Turn the anguish of your separation from Him into the joy of an everlasting reunion, and let the sweetness of His presence dissolve the bitterness of your remoteness from His court.
Whoso hath failed to recognize Him will have condemned himself to the misery of remoteness, a remoteness which is naught but utter nothingness and the essence of the nethermost fire.
It is the waywardness of the heart that removeth it far from God, and condemneth it to remoteness from Him.
Quench the thirst of heedlessness with the sanctified waters of My grace, and chase the gloom of remoteness through the morning-light of My Divine presence.
Therein hath the breeze of holiness, laden with the love of thy Lord, stirred thy spirit within thee, and the waters of understanding have washed from thee the stains of remoteness and ungodliness.
Separation from Thee, O Thou Source of everlasting life, hath well nigh consumed me, and my remoteness from Thy presence hath burned away my soul.
The very remoteness of the planters from the King increased their reverence and love.
Feeling, perhaps, a sense of security in their remoteness from the King, which made it impossible for him to watch their actions closely, or to mete out to them prompt punishment, they still disregarded his pardon and his reiterated commands.
This remoteness is due, in great part, to a sincerity of disposition which declines amusements that do not amuse, and desires only those real pleasures which are in perfect harmony with one's own nature and constitution.
If this is not so, how are we to account for the fact that the rarity of letters from friends increases in exact proportion to our remoteness from them?
