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Example sentences for "remoter"

Lexicographically close words:
remota; remote; remotely; remoteness; remotenesses; remotest; remotis; remoto; remoue; remoued
  1. And there is a new horizon, a remoter one than we have known before, for beyond the mighty half-circle of hazy mountains that form the usual frame of the picture rise certain shadowy great domes that are unfamiliar to our eyes.

  2. The house was packed, and the applause was so recurrent and continuous that often his voice was lost to those in its remoter corners.

  3. If a kinsman of remoter kinship than that existing between brothers commit a crime punishable by death, except sorcery or murder, and obstinately refuse to pay the fine assessed, seizure of his property or part of it is made.

  4. In the case of relatives of remoter degree, kinship is a strong extenuating circumstance in the event of the more serious crimes.

  5. This is most frequently the case among the remoter kin.

  6. But where borrower and lender are brothers, no interest is charged; where they are kin of somewhat remoter degree, a low interest, as a rule, is charged.

  7. Clemency is shown the remoter kin in order to secure their loyalty to the family group.

  8. As Lucia moved she parted with some of that remoter quality that had first fascinated, then estranged him; she took on the grace of the creatures that live free in the sunlight and in the open air.

  9. As her eyes scanned him gently, it occurred to him that she had probably never before had an opportunity of intimately observing a gentleman suffering from the remoter effects of intoxication.

  10. They were set up as Jeff had promised, on tree trunks in the remoter hills where any chance eye might discover them.

  11. Then gaps broke up the continuity, but, even so, the view beyond to her left was cut off by remoter growths.

  12. The remoter corners of the place were shadowed.

  13. A small disagreeable voice, hermetically sealed in one of the remoter caverns of him, remarked at this point that he was a liar.

  14. His immediate desire was to consolidate and extend France to the Rhine and Pyrenees, and to absorb the Spanish Netherlands; his remoter view saw the French Kings as the possible successors of Charlemagne in a recast Holy Roman Empire.

  15. Long after the country became thickly peopled it, and such places as it, remained the rallying-points of social festivity in their several counties, or drew their guests from remoter regions.

  16. It is told that in remoter districts of the mountains they are not allowed to sit at the table with the male members of the household, but serve them as in ancient societies.

  17. This is the French conception of coffee in the remoter districts, but the bread and jam or honey that go with it are generally good and plentiful, and I suppose the fearful drink itself must be wholesome.

  18. We carefully repaired the scars, then made tracks of another kind, for remoter districts.

  19. London to endeavour to persuade the British government to transfer Napoleon to a remoter and safer place of exile than the isle of Elba, but the negotiations were cut short by the emperor's return to France in March 1815.

  20. The problem of hybridism is no more than the explanation of the generally reduced fertility of remoter crosses as compared with the generally increased fertility of crosses between organisms slightly different.

  21. Across the picture and halfway as it seemed between him and the remoter view, a stout cable of twisted white wire stretched vertically.

  22. There were balconies, galleries, great archways giving remoter perspectives, and everywhere people, a vast arena of people, densely packed and cheering.

  23. The remoter the locality, the more obdurate was the Saxon; and these indwellers were latterly distinguished as "Uplandish" by the inhabitants of cities.

  24. He knows too much about the various possibilities, the remoter significances of each one of his little troubles, to be a sufficiently clear-minded judge.

  25. But both are a little nervous in that they are only in their first year, and still, academically speaking, confined to the study of the dog-fish in a remoter corner of the college.

  26. All lightness and glitter are the remoter surfaces; all warm colour and depth of tone the nearer undulations.

  27. Before the dawning we had heard from all save the remoter settlements.

  28. The geographical distribution of existing faunas and floras is often made clear and intelligible by geological evidence; and in the same way light is thrown upon some of the remoter phases in the history of man himself.

  29. Some of these so-called fossil animals may have their representatives still living in the remoter parts of the world.

  30. It is possible that some of these birds may still be living in the remoter parts of our hemisphere.

  31. The Trees of Life and of Knowledge are at once suggested by the mysterious sacred tree which appears in the most ancient sculptures and paintings of Egypt and Assyria, and in those of the remoter East.

  32. Even the East India breed, entirely covered with hair, produce without being crossed with a finer race a progeny, the superiority of whose fleece over that of the parent stock is visible in every remoter generation.

  33. In the remoter districts, however, which are altogether devoid of cultivation, horned cattle are subjected to no such restraints, but are permitted to range about the country at all times.

  34. The school on Athos failed, but others established themselves before the close of the eighteenth century in the people's midst, even in the smaller towns and the remoter villages.


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