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Sentences ending with aloof

Frank Armour's solicitor was also there, but, with good taste, he held aloof. [11]
She was the granddaughter of a certain haughty dame of high degree, who regarded icily this poorest of younger sons, and held her darling aloof. [11]
Serapion held aloof. [10]

More example sentences with the word aloof in them

I wonder if you think--if you think of that: a little home away from all these wars, aloof from vexing things. [11]
Perhaps, where speech was not given, a gift of divination entered into her instead, and she valued what others found useless, and held aloof from what others found good. [11]
To me, on the contrary, one suitor only is welcome, he with the lowered torch, whom you keep aloof from me. [10]
It was he, the ambitious artist, though recognition held even farther aloof from his creations than success. [10]
The order of St. Francis alone regarded them with favour, interceded for them, and watched over them with kindly interest, taking care that they were kept aloof from everything which would expose them to reproach or blame. [10]
Iras is a shrewd woman, and will be glad if she can keep aloof from such trifles during the time which will decide the fate of Cleopatra and of the world. [10]
Beyond question he seemed unutterably aloof from all knowledge of pressure being brought to bear upon her, absolutely guiltless of any connection with secret power over riders, with night journeys, with rustlers and stampedes of cattle. [13]
Quijada, who usually rendered her this service, stood aloof, silent and pale. [10]
This time the prophetess had held aloof from the people's hymns of praise. [10]
Alexander would have preferred to hold aloof from the others, but no one here seemed to think ill of him for his thoughtless behavior. [10]
Apollodorus had his own reasons for keeping aloof on this occasion from all that was connected with the holiday doings of the heathen. [10]
After one afternoon of despondency we both voted it the worst of bad policy to remain aloof and nurse our misfortune, and spent our first evening in making acquaintances over a deal of very thin "debtor's claret. [9]
You know nothing of all this as yet; and your worthy old friend--to whom my greetings--has held aloof from it all his life. [10]
She by no means lacked notice, partly on her own account, partly in consequence of the conversations with which Granvelle, who visited the springs for a short time, honoured her, while he kept entirely aloof from all the other guests. [10]
How difficult he made it for her to maintain the resolution which she had formed during the mass for the dead, since he remained aloof, without giving even the slightest token of remembrance. [10]
From first to last, he was, without show of it, the best friend Montcalm had in the province; and though he held aloof from bringing punishment to Bigot, he despised him and his friends, and was not slow to make that plain. [11]
Nicholas felt himself irredeemably indebted to Sonya for all she was doing for his mother and greatly admired her patience and devotion, but tried to keep aloof from her. [2]
Antony had honoured him with the proud title of "King of kings"; yet he was permitted neither to rule nor even to issue orders, for his mother kept him aloof from affairs of state, and he himself had no desire to hold the sceptre. [10]
Others had blamed her because she held aloof from her sister's friends and amusements. [10]
These strikers were helots, unorganized scum; the regular unions--by comparison respectable--held aloof from them. [9]
The Emperor had held aloof from this game, in which he had formerly joined gladly and with much skill, but, on the other hand, he had promised to appear at the festival under the lindens, which was to last until night. [10]
Those who had held aloof from the young couple in their happy hours now drew near in their misfortune. [10]
Not content with having a separate house established for her he kept aloof in Alexandria without informing her of his arrival. [10]
Had she obediently gone to the convent, he might have spared himself and her the sorrow of holding her so rigidly aloof from his person. [10]
She kept aloof from the servants, and neither man nor maid molested her. [10]
Stephen held aloof from the groups, thinking that Mr. Lincoln had forgotten him. [9]
Barbara had not forgotten this, and had understood how to keep him aloof with maidenly austerity until, on the evening before his departure, he had hung around her neck the big gold thaler his godfather had given him. [10]
The corps etiquette extended even to us, who were strangers, and required us to group with the white corps only, and speak only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. [5]
True, he had encountered very little opposition, for the resolve to hold aloof from the battle against the Romans had been urged upon the Ephebi by the Queen herself through Antyllus, who, however, had already left the meeting when Dion joined it. [10]
He had that disdainful smile which men acquire who are all their lives aloof from the hopes of the hearthstone and acknowledge no laws but their own. [11]
But it was different in that he felt cold, frozen, mechanical incapable of free thought, and all about him seemed unreal, aloof, remote. [13]
She regarded this cruel deed of Alba as a false step at any rate, for, though she kept so far aloof from the Netherland burghers and common people, she perceived what deep indignation this measure aroused. [10]
But the opposition between the contending parties was still too great, and the demand upon the king to salute the dead had aroused such anger in my mother's circle, that she kept aloof from these magnificent and in themselves perfectly justifiable funeral obsequies. [10]
Cowardice may have been in part responsible for his holding aloof from the two duels in which the Richard and the Pallas engaged. [9]
But how could any conceivable antipathy be so comprehensive as to keep a young man aloof from all the world, and make a hermit of him? [6]
Natasha remained alone and, from the time Princess Mary began making preparations for departure, held aloof from her too. [2]
Happiness was not among them, but they were aloof from gloom. [13]
He had remained aloof from the battle, but as soon as the victory was decided, he pressed on into the city. [10]
Charles kept her aloof as if she were plague-stricken. [10]
He held himself a little aloof (as a leader should) from the captains in the station, without seeming to offend them. [9]

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