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1  The Haydocks themselves kept aloof, but the others tolerated him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  He was the first man in town who had not been sensitive enough to feel Carol's aloofness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  When she was most ardently singing hymns or planning deviltry she yet seemed gently aloof and critical.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  It was in the Villa Margherita, by the palms of the Charleston Battery and the metallic harbor, that her aloofness melted.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  She put her hand to her mouth, her forefinger and thumb quite painfully pinching her lower lip, and frowned, and enjoyed being aloof.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Stately and aloof among vainglorious tiring-maids, a queen in robes that murmured on the marble floor, she trod the gallery of a crumbling palace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  The place was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o mutton jackets, awaiting the return of their lords.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX