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Usage examples of aloof.

Union, or Confederation, under altered conditions, by the majority which should accede to them, with a recognition of the right of the recusant minority to withdraw, secede, or stand aloof.

The slim Senite appeared on the screen, no longer looking ageless and aloof, but shaken and tired.

Cassandra had remained aloof, mostly, yet she had insisted that he perform his duties as her protector, making sure he was always nearby.

The beadle, standing aloof, was inwardly angry at this individual who took the liberty of admiring the cathedral by himself.

There, under the disdainfully aloof gaze of eb Rise, Commander ha Bem was overseeing the distnbution of the liquid.

Melazzo and Morcone came to assist them, and it was then that Cabane observed that Terlizzi held aloof, as if filled with horror.

Charlie and Robert, were wont to go to Irville, and it was soon seen that they kept themselves aloof from the other callans in the clachan, and had a genteeler turn than the grulshy bairns of the cottars.

The Junta, however, being jealous of Cuesta, had given secret instructions to Venegas to keep aloof.

Set apart himself from the common world, he loved that daringness of character which also made itself, among common things, aloof and alone.

They gazed across the ravine dehumanized and aloof, as if they were the last gods on earth.

The baron and his friend did a little gaming and won a little money, but I held aloof from them to the best of my ability.

It seemed to Myron a little strange that his two intimates in his boyhood town should not have been his own family, nor Herbert Lambkin, nor any of the lively ruffians with whom he had once loafed at the livery-stable, but two familiar strangers whom, as the baby Effie May and the aloof Ted Dingle, he had seen without knowing them.

It made her feel a little elderly and aloof, and she guessed that it was Professor van Duyl who had instigated it.

She seemed to have no compunction about compressing the aloof distance she usually maintained with her staff, and stood facing him barely a foot away, her shoulders back and spine straight, almost in a military stance, but with the laughing gleam in her eye and the smooth lines of her cheek effacing any thoughts of the harshness of command.

Some of those, however, on whom Charles principally depended, now stood aloof, either fluctuating in their principles, astonished at the boldness of the undertaking, or startled at the remonstrances of their friends, who did not fail to represent, in aggravated colours, all the danger of embarking in such a desperate enterprise.