Isolated

Examples

• There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then they could get into no touch with the isolated little sculptor. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This desecration was not the act of some isolated fanatic; it was the official act of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Memphis therefore was practically isolated from the balance of the command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He was isolated as if there were a vacuum round his heart, or a sheath of pure ice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The escort and the universal watchfulness had completely isolated him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But there is a tendency to seek the cause of such aimless activities in the youth's own disposition, isolated from everything else. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ancient and isolated races of Mexico had also learned the art of spinning and weaving. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Do you mean to say, he asked, that you are completely isolated from every connection? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Venn passed on through these towards the house of the isolated beauty who lived up among them and despised them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Apart from work they were isolated, free to do as they liked. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are inevitable as the spirit and quality of an activity having specific consequences, not as forming an isolated realm of inner consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In this instance, demands for isolated plants for lighting factories, mills, mines, hotels, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their utilitarian value in forming habits of skill to be used for tangible results is important, but not when isolated from the appreciative side. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But it would not have isolated the individual from the world, and consequently isolated individuals--in theory--from one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Among other remote and isolated little patches of language are the Papuan speech of New Guinea and the native Australian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But he and she were walking in perfect, isolated darkness, outside the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Acetylene gas finds its principal uses for isolated plants, and in country houses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The trough battery was used by Sir Humphry Davy in his series of great experiments--1806-1808--in which he isolated the metallic bases, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Getty was somewhat isolated from Warren and was in a precarious condition for a time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Half a Martian year, about three hundred and forty-four of our days, each of these men spend alone in this huge, isolated plant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Both sides assume that the self is a fixed and hence isolated quantity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Being rather isolated, it shows to better advantage than any other of the monuments of ancient Rome. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The more isolated the object, the more isolated the sensory quality, the more distinct the sense-impression as a unit of knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The conception of mind as a purely isolated possession of the self is at the very antipodes of the truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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