1 A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land.
2 His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.
3 And he lay there in his own isolation, but somehow proud.
4 But a pallor of isolation came over him, she was not really there for him.
5 He turned slowly, ponderingly, accepting again the isolation.
6 Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
7 Thus we see her in a strange state of isolation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 8 The look suggested isolation, but it revealed something more.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 9 I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 10 And I accept this isolation of hatred, without hating any one myself.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 11 Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 12 That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 13 And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 14 From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT 15 lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON