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Sentences starting with remote

Remote from communication, it was yesterday an exhausted, wounded, deserted country. [4]
Remote mountain hamlets from Japan, minarets and muezzins from the Orient, pyramids from Egypt, domes from Moscow resembling gilded beets turned upside down; grey houses of parliament by the Thames, the Tower of London, the Palaces of Potsdam, the Tai Mahal. [9]

Sentences ending with remote

Strange it seemed that war had come to this village, so peaceful and remote. [9]
Away in the southwest, lifting themselves up in a gleam of the western sky, the Great Smoky Mountains loomed like a frowning continental fortress, sullen and remote. [4]
Here, where the present retires into the background, the thoughtful spirit finds no limits however remote. [10]
If you can make a reliable promise (I mean one which you can rely on yourself) of this sort, it will be of great value, if the day is not too remote. [7]
It was a large, unwieldy plaything indeed, and remote. [9]
She did not know what she would say to Lise if she should find her; and in spite of Mr. Tiernan's expressed confidence, the chances of success seemed remote. [9]
To be prudent is to have the command of a wide circle of thought, so that what is close at hand is no more an obstacle than what is remote. [10]
Her manner was indeed intimate, and yet it had the odd and disturbing effect of making her seem more remote. [9]
And I felt, if I did not say them now, that perhaps I never should: that now or never was the appropriate time, and to delay would be to drift into an impossible situation wherein the chance of an understanding would be remote. [9]
I think he has found an attraction that will call him down from the celestial luminaries to a light not less pure and far less remote. [6]

Short sentences using remote

She was remote, self-absorbed. [9]

Sentences containing remote two or more times

The newspaper has little effect upon the remote country mind, because the remote country mind is interested in a very limited number of things. [4]
This sentient matter is in remote connection only with the mental organs, far more remote than the centres of the sense of vision and that of smell. [6]
This palace was far, far away toward the rising sun, immeasurably remote, astronomically remote, in Newport, Rhode Island, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American Aristocracy. [5]

More example sentences with the word remote in them

A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
And its gracious work is not done yet--not anywhere in the remote neighborhood of it. [5]
Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
Mr. Crewe paused, with his forefinger on the page, and fixed a glassy eye on the remote neighbourhood in the back seats where the disturbance had started. [9]
The nuggets of wisdom that are dug out of the Oriental and remote literatures would often prove to be only commonplace if stripped of their quaint setting. [4]
A good dog will bark at a woodchuck-hole long after the animal has retired to a remote part of his residence, and escaped by another hole. [4]
The awkward, uncouth wickedness of remote country-places, where culture has died out after the first crop, is about as disagreeable as the ranker and richer vice of city life, forced by artificial heat and the juices of an overfed civilization. [4]
We couldn't tell what interpretation succeeding ages would put upon our lives and history and literature when they have become remote and shadowy. [4]
Doctor Benjamin's conjectures were not unnatural, but quite remote from the actual fact. [6]
Nor was there wanting an exact facsimile and copy of little Jacob, as he appeared in those remote times when they taught him what oysters meant. [12]
In this remote village there are no sights to see, there is no newspaper to intrude the worries of the distant world, there is nothing going on, it is always Sunday. [5]
And yet, this vile bit of human rubbish seemed to bear a sort of remote and ill-defined resemblance to me! [5]
Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
It once seemed to us that, if we ever reached it, we should be contented to abide there, in a place so remote, in a port so picturesque and foreign. [4]
He had wandered to this remote region from his birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune. [5]
I went always to the front, where the fighting was thickest, to be remote from you in order that you might not see and be discouraged by the things I did to the enemy. [5]
I preferred him to my dog, whom I had, with much patience, taught to go up a long hill alone and surround the cows, and drive them home from the remote pasture. [4]
It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. [5]
If you wish to get the distance of a heavenly body, you know that you must take two observations from remote points of the earth's orbit,--in midsummer and midwinter, for instance. [6]
With every desire to do justice to the pretty town of Oswego, which lies on a gentle slope by the lake, it had to them an out-of-doors, unprotected, remote aspect. [4]
It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? [5]
In that remote time there was only one ladder railway in the country. [5]
He therefore launched this shaft of ridicule, and got it to pass as an arrow of wisdom shot out of a popular experience in remote ages. [4]
He realized that there was in Grier some touch of the insane thing; something apart, remote and terrible. [11]
Isolation breeds conceit; there are no people so conceited as those who dwell in remote wildernesses and live mostly alone. [4]
Then he told them what the Sultan of Egypt was at; also what the King of the Remote Seas was about. [5]
Merely to see the world from some remote sphere, like the distant spectator of a play which passes in dumb show, would not suffice. [4]
Spaciousness, remote altitudes, the sense of mystery which haunts apparently inaccessible mountain domes and summits reposing in the sky--these are the things which exalt the spirit and move it to see visions and dream dreams. [5]
Yes, it was the Rigi-Kulm hotel--the one that occupies the extreme summit, and whose remote little sparkle of lights we had often seen glinting high aloft among the stars from our balcony away down yonder in Lucerne. [5]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
The list of the kings which I compiled at that time, from the most remote sources to the Sassanida, won the commendation of A. von Gutschmid, the most able investigator in this department. [10]
And besides this, the benefits of a reformation to be effected by such a system were too remote in point of time to warmly engage many in its behalf. [7]
She told him that they sought some distant country place remote from towns or even other villages, and with a faltering tongue inquired what road they would do best to take. [12]
I did think that putting in these turnips so late in the season, when general activity has ceased, and in a remote part of the garden, they would pass unnoticed. [4]
I finally decided that he had taken it because convenient, and because he believed Asquith to be more remote from the East than the Sandwich Islands. [9]
I rather liked that exercise he read us the other day, though I must confess I should hardly dare to translate it, for fear some people in a remote city where I once lived might think I was drawing their portraits. [6]
The telescopulist--or the telescopulariat--I do not know which is right--said a party were making a grand ascent, and would come in sight on the remote upper heights, presently; so we waited to observe this performance. [5]
I have often taken note of the resemblances of living persons to the portraits and statues of their remote ancestors. [6]
The air is superb and soothing and wholesome, and the Chalet is remote from noise and people, and just the place to write in. [5]
A rich, full strain of the divinest melody streamed forth from a remote part of the hall the nightingale's voice! [5]
And to Mrs. Sterling; a widow, living on a small income in a remote Massachusetts village, Philadelphia was a city of many splendors. [5]
A remote farmhouse, standing a little off the road, banked up with sawdust and earth to keep the frost out of the cellar, blockaded with snow, and flying a blue flag of smoke from its chimney, looks like a besieged fort. [4]
And will it stand the strain now that the once remote haven of the oppressed has become a world-power? [9]
I dwell in spaces vague, remote, unknown, Save to the silent few, who, leaving earth, Quit all communion with their living time. [6]
Then out of some remote corner of that vast place there rose a plaintive voice, and in tones most tender and sweet and rich came floating through that enchanted hush our poor old simple song "L'Arbre Fee Bourlemont! [5]
And I, like some poor peasant fated to reside Remote from friends, in a forest wide. [5]
The place was so remote, so peaceful in contrast to the city I had left, which had become intolerable. [9]
The high walls show that the gardens are protected with great care; yet the fruit seems to be as free as apples are in a remote New England town about cider-time. [4]
On each occasion she had felt a thrill like that of music--persuasive, living vibrations passing to remote recesses of her being. [11]
Mrs. March got several flats on her list which promised neither steam heat nor elevators; she forgot herself so far as to include two or three as remote from the down-town region of her choice as Harlem. [8]
In the remote settlements the pine-knot is still the torch of courtship; it endures to sit up by. [4]
Although Plaster Cove seems remote on the map, we found that we were right in the track of the world's news there. [4]
Why I cannot see, unless it was remote from the route of travel, and the desolation of it was congenial to him. [4]
For a few seconds they gazed silently into one another's eyes--and what had seemed impossible and remote suddenly became possible, inevitable, and very near. [2]
On Konovnitsyn's handsome, resolute face with cheeks flushed by fever, there still remained for an instant a faraway dreamy expression remote from present affairs, but then he suddenly started and his face assumed its habitual calm and firm appearance. [2]
Are there no remote places where He will not seek me out? [9]
Even at a remote period he practised some division of labour. [1]
Here, in this remote paradise now in ruins, people had dwelt and loved. [9]
But in a remote apartment of the palace a scene of a different nature was, transpiring. [5]
Though from a remote and somewhat barbarous island, they believed themselves the most perfect men upon earth, and magnified their chieftain, the Lord Scales, beyond the greatest of their grandees. [4]
And she suddenly recalled, as an incident of the remote past, that she had told him she wanted it! [9]
The relation of puerperal fever with other continued fevers would seem to be remote and rarely obvious. [3]
Hence some remote progenitor of the whole vertebrate kingdom appears to have been hermaphrodite or androgynous. [1]
Of course, the practice of medicine and surgery in a remote country district has its disadvantages, but in my case I am happy in a division of responsibility. [5]
There was no place in America, however remote, or however rich, or poor or high or humble where words of mourning for your father were not uttered that morning, for his works had made him known and loved all over the land. [5]
Things that seemed pigeon-holed and remote are a perpetual influence. [5]
His voice had pierced to some remote corner in David's nature, and roused him. [11]
But I am persuaded that the humidity of the atmosphere in these remote regions is such that particles of daylight adhere to the disk and it was by aid of these that we were enabled to see the sun in the dark. [5]
He had not perhaps taken her marriage into account, except as a remote contingency; and certainly Fulkerson was not the kind of son-in-law that he had imagined in dealing with that abstraction. [8]
The Arbusers were people of consequence in their day, with a certain social prestige; in fact, the excellent ladies were two generations removed from successful mercantile life, which in the remote prospective took on an old-family solidity. [4]
This was a peculiarly gratifying discovery, because of late times it has become fashionable to regard this creature as a myth and a superstition, a work of the inventive imaginations of our remote ancestors. [5]
In the remote parts of his being there was the capacity for the phenomenal, the strange. [11]
Parish interchanged with parish; but, because it was so remote, Pontiac was its own goal of pleasure, and few fared forth, though others came from Ville Bambord and elsewhere to join the fete. [11]
It was gazing out over the ocean of Time--over lines of century-waves which, further and further receding, closed nearer and nearer together, and blended at last into one unbroken tide, away toward the horizon of remote antiquity. [5]
In the distance, one could see a long wavering line of torches drifting down the main street, and could hear the throbbing of the bass drum, the clash of cymbals, the squeaking of a fife or two, and the faint roar of remote hurrahs. [5]
But I have often remarked how little real conception of the moving world, as it is, people in remote regions get from the newspaper. [4]
If the effect of wit is produced by the sudden recognition of a remote resemblance, there was nothing witty in the naming of this station. [4]
In the fulness of time Slade's myrmidons captured his ancient enemy Jules, whom they found in a well-chosen hiding-place in the remote fastnesses of the mountains, gaining a precarious livelihood with his rifle. [5]
As a consequence of this, the senseless practice of celibacy has been ranked from a remote period as a virtue. [1]
The rich smell of the fresh-cut lumber filled the air, and suggested all kinds of remote and pleasant things. [11]
And the words of the chant ran through Grah's ears, and pierced to the remote parts of his being; and a sickening trouble came upon his face, and the lips ceased to drip, and were caught up in twinges of pain. [11]
His knowledge is of that strange, remote character, that it seems sometimes almost superhuman. [6]
The remote possibility of such a catastrophe had frightened some timid dwellers beneath The Mountain to other places of residence; here the danger was most imminent, and yet he loved to dwell upon the chances of its occurrence. [6]
On the morning of our second day, we traveled around to a remote and particularly wild spot on the borders of the Lake, where a stream of fresh, ice-cold water entered it from the mountain side, and then we went regularly into camp. [5]
The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past. [2]
He could expect nothing beyond a possible rectorate in the remote distance, with one of those little pony chapels to preach in, which, if it were set up on a stout pole, would pass for a good-sized martin-house. [6]
The elephant has nothing against the spider--he cannot get down to that remote level; I have nothing against man. [5]
If he does not wake to-day we shall understand what kind of a sleep it is, and his body will then be borne to a place in one of the remote recesses of the cave where none will ever find it to desecrate it. [5]
Truro Pass is not so high as the Brenner, but it has a grand, wild look in winter, remote as it is from the haunts of men. [9]
The King could not pierce through the rabble that swarmed behind; so he was obliged to follow in the rear, remote from his good friend and servant. [5]
The question is not between Mr. Olmsted's admirably arranged, but remote pleasure-ground and our Common, with its batrachian pool, but between his Excentric Park and our finest suburban scenery, between its artificial reservoirs and the broad natural sheet of Jamaica Pond. [6]
The history of no other life of that remote time is known with either the certainty or the comprehensiveness that attaches to hers. [5]
It was all new, therefore all delightful, even when the Protestant sentiments shocked her as being not merely untrue, but hurting that aesthetic sense never remote from the mind of the devout Catholic. [11]
Her death had never been even a remote possibility to his mind, though the parting had had the decisiveness of death. [11]
I picture to myself Columbus, the future discoverer of a world, taking his modest stand in a remote corner, the humble and neglected spectator of the pageant. [4]
The thought surcharges my heart even at this remote day. [5]
I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my naval academy which I had established at a remote seaport. [5]
It is, however, more probable that these colours have been intensified through artificial selection, as this species has been carefully bred in China from a remote period. [1]
She seems to me like one of those birds that travellers tell of, found in remote, uninhabited islands, who, having never received any wrong at the hand of man, show no alarm at and hardly any particular consciousness of his presence. [6]
Perhaps, in like manner, our faults and vices are virtues in some remote planet. [4]

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