Citations:apart

English citations of apart

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• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  And as I knew that the first storm that blew must necessarily break her all in pieces, I resolved to set all other things apart till I had got everything out of the ship that I could get.

  The fellows proved very honest and diligent after they were mastered and had their properties set apart for them. I sent them, also, from the Brazils, five cows, three of them being big with calf, some sheep, and some hogs, which when I came again were considerably increased.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  He broke down all at once. He couldn't help it. If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors — the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody?

  Nor with the immemorial superstition of their race, and in accordance with the preternaturalness, as it seemed, which in many things invested the Pequod, were there wanting some of the seamen who swore that whenever and wherever descried; at however remote times, or in however far apart latitudes and longitudes, that unnearable spout was cast by one self-same whale; and that whale, Moby Dick.

  And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is — "How many skulls?" — the same way that whalers hail — "How many barrels?" And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses.