Remote

Examples

• Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is true Carthagena is in America, but as remote from the northern colonies as if it had been in Europe. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Things remote in space and time affect the issue of our actions quite as much as things which we can smell and handle. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But herein lies the difference betwixt them: The same good, when near, will cause a violent passion, which, when remote, produces only a calm one. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Archeologists have deprived the Greeks of this gift, and carried back its origin to remoter ages and localities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An old man came into the remoter light of the fire from the direction of the homestead. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If not remote enough, I can go remoter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• To the east, in Mesopotamia, the British, using Indian troops chiefly, made a still remoter flank attack upon the Central Powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is true something is known of remoter times. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Roumania and Italy, both Latin in tradition, both nominally allies of Germany, pursued remoter and deeper schemes in common. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yet in her remoter soul, she knew as well as the adults knew: perhaps better. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Within a few minutes, it was heard in the remotest room in the College. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Moreover, the most delicate notes of a violin can be heard in the remotest corners of a concert hall, when not the slightest motion of the air can be seen or felt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Sir Leicester's cousins, in the remotest degree, are so many murders in the respect that they will out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In our modern languages they are named after the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, which from the remotest times were personified and worshiped. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Here I am,' said the editor, from the remotest end of the room; far beyond all hope of food, unless something was done for him by the hostess. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She cannot afford, and he cannot afford, the remotest chance of another separation from a friend. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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