All 13 Uses of
aloof
in
The Call of the Canyon
- Cold, silent, haunted by something, he had made her miserable with his aloofness.†
Chpt 1 *
- He had embarrassed her, too, for sometimes, in her home, meeting young men there who had not gone into the service, he had seemed to retreat into himself, singularly aloof, as if his world was not theirs.†
Chpt 1
- What had she said or done to make him retreat within himself, aloof, impersonal, unfamiliar?†
Chpt 2
- Carley was finally forced to shift her attention from the intimate objects of the canyon floor to the aloof and unattainable heights.†
Chpt 3
- Some interpretation of his meaning and how it related to this hour held aloof from Carley.†
Chpt 5
- She divined something in his mind that kept him gentle and kindly, restrained always, sometimes melancholy and aloof, as if he were an impassive destiny waiting for the iron consequences he knew inevitably must fall.†
Chpt 6
- Carley divined now, as if by a flash of lightning, the meaning of Glenn's strange, cold, scornful, and aloof manner when he had encountered young men of his station, as capable and as strong as he, who had escaped the service of the army.†
Chpt 7
- Far to the north, standing aloof from the range, loomed up the grand black bulk and noble white dome of Pikes Peak.†
Chpt 8
- Before marriage Carley wanted a girl to be sweet, proud, aloof, with a heart of golden fire.†
Chpt 9
- Carley had seen it in Glenn's, in Rust's—a strange, questioning, far-off light, infinitely aloof and unutterably sad.†
Chpt 10
- It was as mysterious as the stars and as aloof and as inevitable.†
Chpt 11
- That was the great secret, aloof so long.†
Chpt 11
- But the desert seemed too gray, too vast, too remote, too aloof, too measureless.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others