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  • He talked about coins—it was the one topic he, could discuss with ease—and continued to cook my breakfasts and dinners; but our estrangement grew worse over time.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 8 — Estranged.†   (source)
  • Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones.†   (source)
  • He told of his inability to write further poetry, of his increasing estrangement from the cybrid impostors, of his retreat into something resembling catatonia combined with "hallucinations" of his true AI existence in the nearly incomprehensible (to a nineteenth-century poet) TechnoCore, and of the ultimate crumbling of the illusion and the abandonment of the "Keats Project."†   (source)
  • A new house, away from Myrta's parents, might be all the couple needed to end their growing estrangement.†   (source)
  • Even when we did not get along and our relationship was estranged, you still stayed a presence in my life.†   (source)
  • But you're well beyond that, already beginning to drift, to feel estranged from the products you consume.†   (source)
  • Are we so estranged that I cannot even apologize to the king?†   (source)
  • It had something to do with reconciling an estranged family, but it wasn't what they were talking about that captured Mack, it was how they related.†   (source)
  • What it's for you don't know, and why it's there, there's no one to tell, and so all you can feel is alienated, estranged, as though you didn't belong there.†   (source)
  • When it's my turn, I give Papa a goodbye kiss as we've gotten out of the habit of hugs since our estrangement.†   (source)
  • The one in London has been Spencer Cochran's estranged wife.†   (source)
  • …love for Katrina-obsessive, selfish, and generally unhealthy as it was, although it had once been something wholesome-his hate and fear of the Spine, which were the offspring of his grief for his late wife, Ismira, who had fallen to her death among those cloud-rending peaks; his estrangement from the remaining branches of his family; his pride in his work; the stories Eragon had heard about Sloan's childhood; and Eragon's own knowledge of what it was like to live in Carvahall.†   (source)
  • He felt totally estranged from the city in which he had been born; this city for which he sometimes felt a kind of stony affection because it was all he knew of home.†   (source)
  • Thousands of miles from home and estranged from her family, she had embraced a group of strangers, as she herself admitted freely, in part to fill a void in her life.†   (source)
  • He blamed himself much for the estrangement which he had allowed to grow between them.†   (source)
  • Her estranged husband, Luc, was also back in the picture, involved in some kind of elaborate financial scheme.†   (source)
  • It took fourteen days before Ed mustered the courage to pick up the phone and call his estranged wife in California.†   (source)
  • It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves.†   (source)
  • 'She'll be all right,' I assured him, though I was estranged from her and in agony, as if she'd been my bride.†   (source)
  • Yossarian walked in lonely torture, feeling estranged, and could not wipe from his mind the excruciating image of the barefoot boy with sickly cheeks until he turned the corner into the avenue finally and came upon an Allied soldier having convulsions on the ground, a young lieutenant with a small, pale, boyish face.†   (source)
  • February is a bad time to be estranged from your best friend-a month when freshmen tend to distill and discard some of the unfamiliar, insecure elements of the first semester that kept them all holding on to each other, traveling in large, safe groups.†   (source)
  • After hardly seeing each other for six days, they would finally be together on Sundays, full of desire; but, as on the evening when Tomas came back from Zurich, they were estranged and had a long way to go before they could touch and kiss.†   (source)
  • By the second day, the ferreting journalists had connected Shiva to his fame as the fistula surgeon—"fixing holes is what I do"—and by the third day, they'd labeled Thomas Stone the "estranged father."†   (source)
  • But even so, bits and snatches of the universe manage to leak in: a mother who locked her children in a car and let it roll into a lake to drown them; an estranged husband who shot his wife in front of their kids; a serial rapist who kept a teenager tied up in a basement for a month before he slit her throat.†   (source)
  • Think of Seth Hubbard on October 1 of last year, facing certain death and already determined to speed it up, racked with pain and heavily medicated with painkillers, sad, lonely, single, estranged from his children and grandchildren, a dying, bitter old man who'd given up, and the only person near enough to hear him and console him was Lettie Lang.†   (source)
  • An estranged father of the victim and a hostile ex-husband who'd broken into the administration building two months earlier and physically assaulted the district attorney.†   (source)
  • A woman of dubious reputation who has long been estranged from her family.†   (source)
  • Her estranged husband wanted her dead.†   (source)
  • On June 15, the provincial legislature of New Jersey had ordered the arrest of its royal governor, William Franklin, the estranged, illegitimateson of Benjamin Franklin, and authorized its delegates in Congress to vote for independence.†   (source)
  • But, Simon admitted to himself, his own recent estrangement from his mother made him more curious about Alec's answer than he would have been otherwise.†   (source)
  • It did not make her feel estranged from the city: it made her feel, for the first time, that she owned the city and that she loved it, that she had never loved it before as she did in this moment, with so personal, solemn and confident a sense of possession.†   (source)
  • Please don't make fun of me:' she said in an estranged, helpless voice that made me feel like an insensitive bully.†   (source)
  • That night, lying in the short bunk bed above snoring Albert, I wondered if anything would have turned out differently had a careless nurse switched the two of us in a hospital nursery, whether his family would be significantly changed, whether mine would have been, whether any of us Koreans, raised as we were, would sense the barest tinge of a loss or estrangement.†   (source)
  • Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness?†   (source)
  • Unable, as she worked, to look at him — such an intimate estrangement, theirs.†   (source)
  • All my instincts struggled against the estrangement.†   (source)
  • It need not kill, and it need not give the man who wears it nightmares or result in his estrangement from his wife.†   (source)
  • No one bothered her, and even her mother and brother, from whom she had become estranged, kept out of her way.†   (source)
  • In an instant she experienced afresh the whole of their friendship and estrangement.†   (source)
  • There, outside, was all that was wild and beloved and estranged, and all that would beckon and leave her, and all that was beautiful.†   (source)
  • That thou art then estranged from thyself?   (source)
  • Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were! So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.   (source)
  • Say but one affectionate word to me, and tell me there is nothing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain you no longer.   (source)
  • I cannot bear to have you so wholly estranged from each other.   (source)
  • In her attempt to reach out to moderates, she estranged the most passionate in her own party.
  • He has been estranged from his parents since he told them he is gay.
  • The only descriptions that had ever been leaked were written by a handful of estranged brothers.†   (source)
  • In recent years the sisters had become very close, overcoming an earlier estrangement.†   (source)
  • Why was Saunière's dying wish that his estranged granddaughter find me?†   (source)
  • Paul handled the estrangement with his son in the only way he knew.†   (source)
  • To add to his misery, the loss of Ariana had led, not to a renewed closeness between Albus and Aberforth, but to an estrangement.†   (source)
  • Next to her were Pierrot and Jackson, lankier by five or six inches, wedged between the outlines of their estranged parents.†   (source)
  • I felt a tremor of excitement, as if I were about to meet an estranged friend with whom I longed to be reconciled.†   (source)
  • If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.†   (source)
  • This private gazing was a form of estrangement not only from those of us around her but from the very things she watched so endlessly.†   (source)
  • Unusual behavior tends to produce estrangement in others which tends to further the unusual behavior and thus the estrangement in self-stoking cycles until some sort of climax is reached.†   (source)
  • I watch her all the time doing things in measured sequence, skillfully, with seeming ease, unlike my former wives, who had a tendency to feel estranged from the objective world-a self-absorbed and high-strung bunch, with ties to the intelligence community.†   (source)
  • We ran through smogged-out hollows past houses stilted over raw defiles and we ran into wooded areas that had the look of tinder, a dry white dusty stillness, a sense of combustible edge, but maybe not—I might have been devising my own newsreel. everything quality that creeps into innocuous remarks and becomes the vanguard of estranged feeling.†   (source)
  • I watched, numbly estranged from'myself, as he unholstered his service revolver and struck me again, once or twice or several times.†   (source)
  • Best of all, her father didn't say anything embarrassing, and though he brought up the fact that he used to teach at Juilliard, he didn't volunteer that he'd been her teacher or that she'd once played at Carnegie Hall or that they'd written songs together, nor had he mentioned the fact that until a few days ago, he and Ronnie had been completely estranged.†   (source)
  • But in Middle-earth Men and Elves became estranged in the days of darkness, by the arts of the Enemy, and by the slow changes of time in which each kind walked further down their sundered roads.†   (source)
  • Maybe it would have been easier to actually acknowledge the weirdness that was our estrangement and the fact that my mom and I hadn't even known Cora had gotten married, much less been invited to the wedding.†   (source)
  • He wanted to fix the flaws he recognized in himself, he wanted to forge a relationship with his estranged son, he had come here because a stranger seeking redress from him had sent a note requesting it.†   (source)
  • I felt a breath of estrangement in the room and thought she might be a voyeur of her own experience, living at an angle to the moment and recording in some state of future-mind.†   (source)
  • This whole night will be dealership talk, and meanwhile I've got Melanie and Brock at a sidewalk cafe in Brussels with her estranged husband fast approaching and the last thing in the world I want to think about is sales figures and cut-rate financing techniques.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth Martin, singer Dean Martin's estranged wife, hired Ira as her chauffeur and children's guardian after reading of Ira's plight in the Chicago Sun-Times.†   (source)
  • The strength of the Elves to resist him was greater long ago; and not all Men were estranged from them.†   (source)
  • I am unversed in the metaphysical, have long become estranged from it, and if this can be so, I believe the metaphysical is as much unversed in me.†   (source)
  • In the background was a figure estranged and disembodied from the others, the unmistakable figure of the Bear, smoking his cigar and overseeing the proceedings with a malevolently inappropriate grin.†   (source)
  • Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.†   (source)
  • Once divorced, twice expelled from school, once fled from same, many times estranged from parents, thrice charged with petty larceny, once emergency-roomed for barbiturate overdose, once experimentally wrist-slashed, many times avomit on the pavement outside a bar—the shoplifting charges expunged from the record thanks to influential friends of dad.†   (source)
  • Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.†   (source)
  • Hell could be no more lonely or hopeless, no more agonizingly estranged from the world of order and harmony.†   (source)
  • Besides, that had never been the real estrangement; it was the whole stinking morass of churchiness that really separated them, and now that was apt to get worse rather than better.†   (source)
  • Rufus seldom had at all sharply the feeling that he and his father were estranged, yet they must have been, and he must have felt it, for always during these quiet moments on the rock a part of his sense of complete contentment lay in the feeling that they were reconciled, that there was really no division, no estrangement, or none so strong, anyhow, that it could mean much, by comparison with the unity that was so firm and assured, here.†   (source)
  • Rufus seldom had at all sharply the feeling that he and his father were estranged, yet they must have been, and he must have felt it, for always during these quiet moments on the rock a part of his sense of complete contentment lay in the feeling that they were reconciled, that there was really no division, no estrangement, or none so strong, anyhow, that it could mean much, by comparison with the unity that was so firm and assured, here.†   (source)
  • She thought with relief that words were the best means of estrangement.†   (source)
  • She laughed, a polite but estranging laugh.†   (source)
  • For too long the fact of their estrangement had been public property.†   (source)
  • Estrangement and misunderstanding in act two.†   (source)
  • …in deciding this boy's fate is that, though his crime was accidental, the emotions that broke loose were already there" the thing to remember is that this boy's way of life was a way of guilt" that his crime existed long before the murder of Mary Dalton" that the accidental nature of his crime took the guise of a sudden and violent rent in the veil behind which he lived, a rent which allowed his feelings of resentment and estrangement to leap forth and find objective and concrete form.†   (source)
  • The store was now just a shell, the deserted building vacated even by rats and containing nothing, not even goodwill since he had irrevocably estranged himself from neighbors town and embattled land all three by his behavior.†   (source)
  • During that very first conversation, about the araucaria, he called himself the Steppenwolf, and this too estranged and disturbed me a little.†   (source)
  • The avant-garde's specialization of itself, the fact that its best artists are artists' artists, its best poets, poets' poets, has estranged a great many of those who were capable formerly of enjoying and appreciating ambitious art and literature, but who are now unwilling or unable to acquire an initiation into their craft secrets.†   (source)
  • At their first meeting after the estrangement, Bernard poured out the tale of his miseries and accepted consolation.†   (source)
  • From childhood, they had been exact opposites in temperament and they had been further estranged by his objections to the manner in which she had reared Charles— "Making a damn sissy out of a soldier's son!†   (source)
  • It is true that every time my life was shattered in this way I had in the end gained something, some increase in liberty and in spiritual growth and depth, but with it went an increased loneliness, an increasing chill of severance and estrangement.†   (source)
  • …softly illumined with their miniatures, and the books of the German poets of two hundred and a hundred years ago whom their own folk have forgotten, all the thumbed and damp-stained volumes, and the works in print and manuscripts of the old composers, the stout and yellowing music sheets dreaming their music through a winter sleep—who heard their spirited, their roguish and yearning tones, who carried through a world estranged from them a heart full of their spirit and their charm?†   (source)
  • And he was in this estranged and indifferent mood.†   (source)
  • It was the third day of the estrangement.†   (source)
  • Their minds, lately estranged, seemed suddenly to have been drawn closer, one to the other.†   (source)
  • I am estranged from Leonora, who married Rodney Bayham in my absence and went to live at Bayham.†   (source)
  • The city of learning wore an estranged look, and he had lost all feeling for its associations.†   (source)
  • There would have been nothing else to talk about but a rapprochement between that estranged pair.†   (source)
  • As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers.†   (source)
  • Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were!†   (source)
  • But this affair and all the talk about it did not estrange popular sympathy from the poor idiot.†   (source)
  • Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the other.†   (source)
  • This second meeting might have been expected, one would have supposed, to estrange them still more.†   (source)
  • So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.†   (source)
  • It was forcing estrangement into reconciliation.†   (source)
  • It estranged Rawdon from his wife more than he knew or acknowledged to himself.†   (source)
  • Her illness or estrangement did not affect Amelia.†   (source)
  • —My husband and I have been estranged, because he did not trust me, and because I was too blind to understand.†   (source)
  • The estrangement between them caused him, knowingly or unknowingly, grossly to offend her where he would not have done.†   (source)
  • As the priest saw it, this must for ever estrange him from Leonora—not because Leonora set much store by the joy of life, but because she was out of sympathy with Edward's work.†   (source)
  • Then he drew his hand quite away from hers, and turned his face in estrangement from her to the window.†   (source)
  • Margaret, though unable to understand her sister, was assured against estrangement, and returned to London with a more peaceful mind.†   (source)
  • Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias."†   (source)
  • But, aside from this, she was keenly conscious of the way in which such an estrangement would react on herself.†   (source)
  • What the grotesques really need is each other, but their estrangement is so extreme they cannot establish direct ties--they can only hope for connection through George Willard.†   (source)
  • Anne thought it was truly delightful to go skimming through all this mystery and loveliness with your bosom friend who had been so long estranged.†   (source)
  • …large birds passed swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the great oaks which, beneath their Druidical crown, and with Dodonaic majesty, seemed to proclaim the unpeopled vacancy of this estranged forest, and helped me to understand how paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory, which must inevitably lose the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from their not being…†   (source)
  • The prince hardly knew anything, for this was the first informant from the household whom he had met since the estrangement.†   (source)
  • This death, which would never have been of great emotional consequence to Hans Castorp—and indeed after an estrangement of so many adventurous little years, all emotional content had been reduced to almost nothing—seemed to him nevertheless very like the breaking of yet another tie, a last connection, to the world below, bringing to perfection what he so rightly called his freedom.†   (source)
  • In this atmosphere the Pension Bertolini and Windy Corner appeared equally crude, and Lucy saw that her London career would estrange her a little from all that she had loved in the past.†   (source)
  • But when Gerty stood at her side with the tea she pushed it away, and turned an estranged eye on the familiar room.†   (source)
  • But Evgenie Pavlovitch was not afraid to compromise himself by paying the prince a visit, and did so, in spite of the fact that he had recommenced to visit at the Epanchins', where he was received with redoubled hospitality and kindness after the temporary estrangement.†   (source)
  • Is there nothing left of that love, Percy …. which might help you …. to bridge over that sad estrangement?†   (source)
  • It was not possible for her to entirely estrange Bella from one portion of this local social group and direct her definitely toward the homes of certain others.†   (source)
  • He deemed it best not to put his parents into communication with her by informing them of her address; and, being unaware of what had really happened to estrange the two, neither his father nor his mother suggested that he should do so.†   (source)
  • He saw again the small white house and the garden of rose-bushes on the road that led to the mountains and he remembered the sadly proud gesture of refusal which he was to make there, standing with her in the moonlit garden after years of estrangement and adventure.†   (source)
  • Your story was that you had met as estranged people, who were not husband and wife at all in Heaven's sight—not that you had made it up with her."†   (source)
  • "I protest you mistake me, Sir Percy," she said hurriedly, and drawing a little closer to him; "the estrangement, which alas! has arisen between us, was none of my making, remember."†   (source)
  • In the tacit agreement of husband and wife to keep their estrangement a secret they behaved as would have been ordinary.†   (source)
  • At the same time, being rather estranged and hence embarrassed by his recent treatment of her, he was puzzled as to just what attitude to assume in a situation where obviously something was wrong.†   (source)
  • Her real self had lain warm on his heart but a few hours earlier—what had he to do with this estranged and tranquil face which, for the first time, neither paled nor brightened at his coming?†   (source)
  • His ill-considered marriage seems to have completed that estrangement from me which was begun by his extraordinary opinions.†   (source)
  • "If at the estrangement or death of my lost love, I could go and see her child—hers solely—there would be comfort in it!" said Jude.†   (source)
  • She believed in the sincerity of her friend's affection, though it sometimes showed itself in self-interested ways, and she shrank with peculiar reluctance from any risk of estranging it.†   (source)
  • Leonora could not be aware that the man whom she loved passionately and whom, nevertheless, she was beginning to try to rule with a rod of iron—that this man was becoming more and more estranged from her.†   (source)
  • The same delicacy, pride, false shame, whatever it may be called, on Clare's account, which had led her to hide from her own parents the prolongation of the estrangement, hindered her owning to his that she was in want after the fair allowance he had left her.†   (source)
  • She was his comrade, friend, unconscious sweetheart no longer; and her eyes regarded him in estranged silence.†   (source)
  • And then they had turned from each other in estrangement, and gone their several ways, till at a distance of twenty or thirty yards both had looked round simultaneously.†   (source)
  • In aristocratic ages, when each nation tends to stand aloof from all others and likes to have distinct characteristics of its own, it often happens that several peoples which have a common origin become nevertheless estranged from each other, so that, without ceasing to understand the same language, they no longer all speak it in the same manner.†   (source)
  • She had something of an estranged mien; the solitude exhaled from the heath was concentrated in this face that had risen from it.†   (source)
  • Then came the allusion to Arrowhead's admiration of the pale-face beauties, some dim recollections of the looks of the Tuscarora, and a painful consciousness that few wives could view with kindness one who had estranged a husband's affections.†   (source)
  • He ventured to hope that nothing he had said would lead to the estrangement of Kate and Madeline, who had formed an attachment for each other, any interruption of which would, he knew, be attended with great pain to them, and, most of all, with remorse and pain to him, as its unhappy cause.†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged concentration on some one thought.†   (source)
  • Possibly we may even succeed in bringing back this miserable child within the limits of ordinary nature, from which her father's madness has estranged her.†   (source)
  • Even hearts that have been estranged from you soften at this season, and lips that have been silent echo back, "I wish you a happy New Year."†   (source)
  • There were both truth and error in the impression; the child and mother were estranged, but through Hester's fault, not Pearl's.†   (source)
  • In fact he might even, through all this, have been able to estrange me from my family, and no doubt he hoped to be restored to favour with them; to say nothing of revenging himself on me personally, for he has grounds for supposing that the honour and happiness of Sofya Semyonovna are very precious to me.†   (source)
  • His wife had adored him once on a time; she had bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged him the more.†   (source)
  • It being her first day of complete estrangement from rural objects, Phoebe found an unexpected charm in this little nook of grass, and foliage, and aristocratic flowers, and plebeian vegetables.†   (source)
  • In the resolution not even to avoid Mr Meagles's house, lest, in the selfish sparing of himself, he should bring any slight distress upon the daughter through making her the cause of an estrangement which he believed the father would regret, there might have been a little merit.†   (source)
  • It was a perpetual estrangement.†   (source)
  • In the relations of the husband and wife the same estrangement still remained, but there was no talk now of separation, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the possibility of explanation and reconciliation.†   (source)
  • He is estranged from our eldest son and daughter, he has no pride in his twins, he looks with an eye of coldness even on the unoffending stranger who last became a member of our circle.†   (source)
  • It laid the injunction on me that I should never propose to see the writer, who had long been estranged from all intercourse with the world, but who would see a confidential agent if I would appoint one.†   (source)
  • Fanny estranged from him, silent and reserved, was an unnatural state of things; a state which he must break through, and which he could easily learn to think she was wanting him to break through.†   (source)
  • He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from that father.†   (source)
  • The mother lay underground now, long since forgotten—the sisters and brother had a hundred different interests of their own, and, familiar still, were utterly estranged from each other.†   (source)
  • In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches,—one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcars.†   (source)
  • Henchard's wife was dissevered from him by death; his friend and helper Farfrae by estrangement; Elizabeth-Jane by ignorance.†   (source)
  • So long estranged from what was lovely as Clifford had been, she rejoiced—rejoiced, though with a present sigh, and a secret purpose to shed tears in her own chamber that he had brighter objects now before his eyes than her aged and uncomely features.†   (source)
  • Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.†   (source)
  • Say but one affectionate word to me, and tell me there is nothing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain you no longer.†   (source)
  • "There was an awful doom," she continued, "the effect of my father's fatal love of science, which estranged me from all society of my kind.†   (source)
  • There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement.†   (source)
  • Besides a feeling of aloofness from everybody Natasha was feeling a special estrangement from the members of her own family.†   (source)
  • Having broken or relaxed the bonds of filial obedience, they have then to emancipate themselves by a final effort from the sway of custom and the tyranny of opinion; and when at length they have succeeded in this arduous task, they stand estranged from their natural friends and kinsmen: the prejudice they have crossed separates them from all, and places them in a situation which soon breaks their courage and sours their hearts.†   (source)
  • The more interesting that her appearance and manners became under the softening influences which she could now command, and in her wisdom did command, the more she seemed to estrange him.†   (source)
  • Though frequently depressed in spirit when not actually at work, owing to thoughts of Eustacia's position and his mother's estrangement, when in the full swing of labour he was cheerfully disposed and calm.†   (source)
  • She grew provoked at the doctrines of religion; the arrogance of the polemic writings displeased her by their inveteracy in attacking people she did not know; and the secular stories, relieved with religion, seemed to her written in such ignorance of the world, that they insensibly estranged her from the truths for whose proof she was looking.†   (source)
  • "And this is the heart that the same John Jarndyce, who is not otherwise to be mentioned between us, stepped in to estrange from me," said he indignantly.†   (source)
  • But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman.†   (source)
  • 'But, my dear Sir, though estranged (by the force of circumstances over which I have had no control) from the personal society of the friend and companion of my youth, I have not been unmindful of his soaring flight.†   (source)
  • She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand.†   (source)
  • And besides, I wish to hear as much and as often of Ada as I can in this condition of estrangement from poor Rick.†   (source)
  • Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl, as if the child, in her lonely ramble through the forest, had strayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt together, and was now vainly seeking to return to it.†   (source)
  • HE experienced no suffering from estrangement — no yearning after reconciliation; and though, more than once, my fast falling tears blistered the page over which we both bent, they produced no more effect on him than if his heart had been really a matter of stone or metal.†   (source)
  • —and I've been looking for ye everywhere!" he said, overcoming a sadness imparted by the estrangement with the corn-merchant.†   (source)
  • The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him.†   (source)
  • As it was, the whole procession might have seen him, a wild, haggard figure, his gray locks floating in the wind that waved their banners; a lonely being, estranged from his race, but now feeling himself man again, by virtue of the irrepressible instinct that possessed him.†   (source)
  • She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly estranged as might in two meetings extinguish every past hope, and leave him nothing to do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there was such a change as became very alarming, when such a man as Captain Wentworth was to be regarded as the probable cause.†   (source)
  • I am fully persuaded that you have repented and do repent of what has called forth the present letter, and that you will cooperate with me in eradicating the cause of our estrangement, and forgetting the past.†   (source)
  • So long estranged by fate and circumstances, they needed something slight and casual to run before and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold.†   (source)
  • Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? and how many of those gentle souls do you degrade, estrange, torture, for the sake of a little loose arithmetic, and miserable dog-latin?†   (source)
  • He sat over his dining-table long and dreamily, and by an almost mechanical transfer the sentiments which had run to waste since his estrangement from Elizabeth-Jane and Donald Farfrae gathered around Lucetta before they had grown dry.†   (source)
  • At last, therefore, and after so long estrangement from everything that the world acted or enjoyed, they had been drawn into the great current of human life, and were swept away with it, as by the suction of fate itself.†   (source)
  • I had entreated him to keep quite clear of the house till everything was arranged: and, indeed, the bare idea of the commotion, at once sordid and trivial, going on within its walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement.†   (source)
  • In his words, his tone, and especially in that calm, almost antagonistic look could be felt an estrangement from everything belonging to this world, terrible in one who is alive.†   (source)
  • Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror.†   (source)
  • He had every reason given him to be so, but he was not; and solely on his side, an estrangement began to arise between them.†   (source)
  • For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.†   (source)
  • The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in regular order.†   (source)
  • He had confined himself to gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as much as possible, from Cosette's mind.†   (source)
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