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  • Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect come into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin.†   (source)
  • The proverbs say 'He who harps on a matter alienates his friend.'†   (source)
  • Me feeling alienated, bummed-out, drinking a lot.†   (source)
  • First we talked about the quarrels and how I see them in a very different light these days, and then about how we've become alienated from our parents.†   (source)
  • Cry and whine and demand answers he's not yet ready to give, further alienating him.†   (source)
  • As long as the king doesn't know which side you've chosen, he won't risk alienating you by harming your cousin.†   (source)
  • The wardens of Charing Cross took a special interest in her and this only served to further alienate her from the rest of the orphans.†   (source)
  • My swift rise to E'lir alienated me from most of the other students.†   (source)
  • Maybe Strigan had been right, and Seivarden had decided the most profitable course, for now, was to not alienate the person who was feeding her, and that would change as soon as her options changed.†   (source)
  • The fair made Buffalo Bill a million dollars (about $30 million today), which he used to found the town of Cody, Wyoming, build a cemetery and fairground for North Platte, Nebraska, pay the debts of five North Platte churches, acquire a Wisconsin newspaper, and further the theatrical fortunes of a lovely young actress named Katherine Clemmons, thereby deepening the already pronounced alienation of his wife.†   (source)
  • We didn't follow the Dick Marcinko Charm School of arrogance and alienating people.†   (source)
  • Surely, that will alienate our people.†   (source)
  • Man's feeling of alienation in the world creates a sense of despair, boredom, nausea, and absurdity.†   (source)
  • I became aware of the depth of my hope and my terror; how very different those feelings were from the alienation that he described, how very different from that awful wasting despair.†   (source)
  • No one had betrayed me, and they had not dared to conduct a house-to-house search for fear of further alienating the people and, in particular, the village elder.†   (source)
  • She too had left the familiarity of home for a new and sometimes alienating place.†   (source)
  • In the case of the Hutterites, people who are willing to go along with the group, who can be easily infected with the community ethos below the level of 150, somehow, suddenly — with just the smallest change in the size of the community — become divided and alienated.†   (source)
  • She had managed to alienate both her husband and the guy who came to visit in the course of the last six weeks or so.†   (source)
  • Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them.†   (source)
  • A wrongly chosen word can hurt a reputation, alienate a friend, or break a heart," he continued, and had us each name a word that could hurt someone.†   (source)
  • We might alienate the Fremen if we took those bases.†   (source)
  • "We were just being ornery," I say slowly, hoping to avoid alienating my future wife, "but you were on a free ride.†   (source)
  • Jordan eventually found them, and his list of classes proved similarly alienating—Multivariable Calculus, Real and Complex Analysis....Dan could solve for zero, but this went far beyond a fundamental grasp of numbers.†   (source)
  • What, do they think I'm less likely to rant or say something alienating if I'm in an expensive public place?†   (source)
  • Chance further alienating my mom?†   (source)
  • They aimed at the youth market, choosing a name that would appeal to counterculture teens alienated by the "generation gap."†   (source)
  • He enjoyed this, his right to be being everywhere contested; uptown, his alienation had been made visible and, therefore, almost bearable.†   (source)
  • Now I was alienating the one person who I actually had on my side in this house.†   (source)
  • How could I have alienated him so completely in such a short amount of time?†   (source)
  • When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of resentment on the one hand, and alienation and loneliness on the other.†   (source)
  • If I filed for divorce, if I alienated myself from Moody, he would write me out of his life.†   (source)
  • Over a twelve-year career, Buckley had managed to alienate almost every lawyer in the five-county district.†   (source)
  • Even his ambition seemed to become him—Adams wrote of Hamilton's "high-minded ambition"—and his incurable love of intrigue had thus far alienated no one.†   (source)
  • That is alienation.†   (source)
  • I had a deep fear of alienating her and Toby by being a drain on them because of the rape, so I tried to be as assiduous in their classrooms as I was with anything concerning my case.†   (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)
  • The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men's House I was overcome by a sense of alienation and hostility.†   (source)
  • Tefu did his best to alienate me as well.†   (source)
  • I started to change the basic stories of my life: that I'm bad, alienated from God, a freak of nature.†   (source)
  • It is to be carried out by a nonviolent invasion and cultural transformation of that huge slice of America into a Mexamerican border-land, where the dominant culture is Hispanic and Anglos will feel alienated and begin to emigrate.†   (source)
  • I have protected you from the demon, yet you persist in alienating a creature that would prove a valuable ally!†   (source)
  • He supposed he couldn't really afford to alienate her.†   (source)
  • So thoroughly had Theresa prepared herself for alienation, that she was taken aback by the familiarity of Ralph — that bottlebrush hair, those stuck-on ears.†   (source)
  • In Maine he is elected Governor by the largest majority in the history of the state and returned to office three times, where he alienates political friends by refusing to agree to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.†   (source)
  • The first would alienate State power by implication.†   (source)
  • Alienated, marginalized, they were ISIS recruits in waiting.†   (source)
  • Yet the laws of recall are subject to distortion and alienation.†   (source)
  • Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.†   (source)
  • If he succeeded, he was an alienated marginal man—alienated from the strength of his culture and from fellow black men, and never able, of course, to become that imitation white man because he bore the pigment that made the white man view him as intrinsically other.†   (source)
  • Her idea, apparently: break down the alienating institution-image, remove resentments by turning the sessions into something more like social occasions, et cetera.†   (source)
  • It actually was a kind of frustrated egalitarianism out of which, I began to understand, he derived much of his sense of alienation.†   (source)
  • Policework and Alienation.†   (source)
  • Four months of wooing by the Left and Right had corrupted these unsophisticated men, who, moreover, were alienated by the speaker's foreign-sounding name and Baltic accent.†   (source)
  • She could always make the kind of literal remark, like this, that could alienate me, even when we were children-much as I love her.†   (source)
  • It was this episode, the Senator later commented, "which alienated me from that day and forever from the councils of the Federalist party."†   (source)
  • And some of them I don't want to alienate before I can move openly.†   (source)
  • The anonymity and alienation of big-city life makes people hard and unfeeling.†   (source)
  • Moreover, labor now belongs to the workers themselves and capitalism's alienation ceases.†   (source)
  • Human civilization had finally given birth to a strong force of alienation.†   (source)
  • When he describes man's 'alienation,' he is echoing the central ideas of Hegel and Marx.†   (source)
  • He loved to sue ex-lovers for alienation of affection.†   (source)
  • A more profound alienation and solitude gripped her during those final days.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the title, "Policework and Alienation."†   (source)
  • The ETO members' alienation developed variously from the faults of human civilization itself, the yearning and adoration for a more advanced civilization, and the strong desire for one's descendants to survive that final war.†   (source)
  • They should guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue, while they pursue what they can only learn from TIME and EXPERIENCE.†   (source)
  • Whereas photographs of Phaedrus' face during this period show alienation and aggression...a member of his department had half jokingly called it a "subversive" look...some photographs of DeWeese from the same period show a face that is quite passive, almost serene, except for a mild questioning expression.†   (source)
  • She had published a number of books and articles with titles full of alienations, roles, transactions, social contexts, and more alienations.†   (source)
  • If San Narciso and the estate were really no different from any other town any other estate, then by that continuity she might have found The Tristero anywhere in her Republic, through any of a hundred lightly-concealed entranceways, a hundred alienations, if only she'd looked.†   (source)
  • He spoke no English when he arrived and found the culture alienating.†   (source)
  • Marx says, with a Hegelian expression, that the worker becomes alienated.†   (source)
  • As this mental state persisted, she gradually felt more and more alienated from the world.†   (source)
  • Your prediction has come true: The alienated forces on Earth really are growing.†   (source)
  • As always, I seem to be especially adept at alienating the few people I actually want to talk to.†   (source)
  • The look of shock on my classmates' faces made me feel profoundly alienated.†   (source)
  • I did not want to alienate him but I was not going to cringe.†   (source)
  • We knew that this would alienate both them and the other parties on the island.†   (source)
  • He was a pretty boy, too showy, cocky, and likely to alienate the jury.†   (source)
  • He was on foreign soil and alienating the underlings could only cause trouble.†   (source)
  • The pair of them were so unassuming, and considering how alienated Henri must have felt, that was saying something.†   (source)
  • He may have strengthened his hold on you, but at the cost of alienating many of the dwarves...We'd better get out of sight before blood is shed.†   (source)
  • In the case of the car salesmen, their decision to quote an outrageously high price to women and blacks alienated people who might otherwise have bought a car.†   (source)
  • Although she disliked magic, she knew that it would play a crucial role in removing Galbatorix and that she could not afford to alienate its practitioners until victory was assured.†   (source)
  • I've hid anything having to do with me from Father, never shared my ideals with him, deliberately alienated myself from him.†   (source)
  • Eragon racked his brain for a way to establish his authority in Du Vrangr Gata without further alienating Trianna.†   (source)
  • Also, the sophon formation allows Trisolaris to communicate in real time with the alienated forces within Earth civilization.†   (source)
  • Thus, we have reason to believe that there are many alienated forces within Earth civilization, and we must exploit such forces to the fullest.†   (source)
  • This may require that we transfer certain technologies far above current human technology level to the alienated forces on Earth.†   (source)
  • Using a shell that drew elements from human society and history, the game explained the culture and history of Trisolaris, thus avoiding alienating beginners.†   (source)
  • As Patsy opened up, not only could I relate to her feelings of being alienated, but to me everything seemed to fall into place on how she carried herself and why she hung out with that rambunctious crowd.†   (source)
  • Don't alienate him.†   (source)
  • In direct conflict with their instructions fromCongress, and at risk of alienating the French, they would ignore Vergennes.†   (source)
  • Van der Capellen in particular warned that alienating the Americans could damage trade with them and that it would be quite unwise to offend any further someone of such rectitude and importance as John Adams.†   (source)
  • This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle's own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phaedrus he couldn't read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.†   (source)
  • I thought that my refusing Barnard would alienate Botha, and I decided that such a tack was too risky.†   (source)
  • I see people like John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life, looking for solutions outside that structure, but finding none that are really satisfactory for long.†   (source)
  • If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.†   (source)
  • And so in recent times we have seen a huge split develop between a classic culture and a romantic counterculture...two worlds growingly alienated and hateful toward each other with everyone wondering if it will always be this way, a house divided against itself.†   (source)
  • I hugged Sophie softly and thought of my book; a thrill of pride and contentment went through me when I considered the honest workmanship I had so far put into the story, making its predestined way with grace and beauty toward the blazing denouement which remained to be set down but which I had already foretokened in my mind a thousand times: the tormented, alienated girl going to her lonely death on the indifferent summertime streets of the city I had just left behind.†   (source)
  • He was, moreover, a brilliant political analyst, who knew that during his lifetime the number of American voters who agreed with the fundamental tenets of his political philosophy was destined to be a permanent minority, and that only by flattering new blocs of support—while carefully refraining from alienating any group which contained potential Taft voters—could he ever hope to attain his goal.†   (source)
  • In the later, emended (and, I am convinced, truthful) version of her story she told me she felt no real bereavement over the seizure of her father and husband—she was by this time too alienated from both of them for it to affect her deeplybut she was forced to feel on another level shock that hammered at her bones, glacial fear and a devastating sense of loss.†   (source)
  • But she turned always into the South—the North for her was a land which she threatened often to explore, but which secretly she held in suspicion: there was in her no deep animosity because of an old war, her feeling was rather one of fear, distrust, alienation—the "Yankee" to whom she humorously referred was foreign and remote.†   (source)
  • But he cared no longer about his alienation.†   (source)
  • For you to make it now is proof of a certain alienation that I would not like to see take root.†   (source)
  • She wanted to confess not only her hatred for the Aunt Bessies but her covert irritation toward those she best loved: her alienation from Kennicott, her disappointment in Guy Pollock, her uneasiness in the presence of Vida.†   (source)
  • In the fetid train, huddled close, hands locked, innocently free of the alienation which the pomposity of weddings sometimes casts between lovers, they sighed, "Now what are we going to do—what ARE we going to do?"†   (source)
  • He would have been an awkward member of the party; for, though the most appreciative humanist, the most ideal religionist, even the best-versed Christologist of the three, there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.†   (source)
  • But this opinion of his did not cause a lasting alienation; and the way in which the family was made whole again was characteristic of all concerned.†   (source)
  • —averted from us in cold alienation; and our last darling child startles us with the air and gestures of the sister we parted from in bitterness long years ago.†   (source)
  • When the peasants, with their singing, had vanished out of sight and hearing, a weary feeling of despondency at his own isolation, his physical inactivity, his alienation from this world, came over Levin.†   (source)
  • To me, he signified the threatening danger was not so much death, as permanent alienation of intellect.†   (source)
  • [Footnote f: "The Indians," say Messrs. Clarke and Cass in their Report to Congress, p.15, "are attached to their country by the same feelings which bind us to ours; and, besides, there are certain superstitious notions connected with the alienation of what the Great Spirit gave to their ancestors, which operate strongly upon the tribes who have made few or no cessions, but which are gradually weakened as our intercourse with them is extended†   (source)
  • For instance, beneath the French criticism of the economic functions of money, they wrote "Alienation of Humanity," and beneath the French criticism of the bourgeois State they wrote "dethronement of the Category of the General," and so forth.†   (source)
  • Let me speak only of that one chamber, ever accursed, whither in a moment of mental alienation, I led from the altar as my bride—as the successor of the unforgotten Ligeia—the fair-haired and blue-eyed Lady Rowena Trevanion, of Tremaine.†   (source)
  • But from this day, the Sparsit action upon Mr. Bounderby threw Louisa and James Harthouse more together, and strengthened the dangerous alienation from her husband and confidence against him with another, into which she had fallen by degrees so fine that she could not retrace them if she tried.†   (source)
  • Among his actual auditors, however, it merely gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.†   (source)
  • He had taken the silence of the old man for a return to reason; and now these few words uttered by Faria, after so painful a crisis, seemed to indicate a serious relapse into mental alienation.†   (source)
  • Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals—all, all must be comprised in it, and oblivion of the past— how natural, how certain too!†   (source)
  • But Maggie had hardly finished speaking in that chill, defiant manner, before she repented, and felt the dread of alienation from her brother.†   (source)
  • "Lord, have mercy on us, and succor us!" he repeated to himself incessantly, feeling, in spite of his long and, as it seemed, complete alienation from religion, that he turned to God just as trustfully and simply as he had in his childhood and first youth.†   (source)
  • He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man.†   (source)
  • 'Though harrowing to myself to mention, the alienation of Mr. Micawber (formerly so domesticated) from his wife and family, is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to Mr. Traddles, and soliciting his best indulgence.†   (source)
  • Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.†   (source)
  • But while he apparently studied to spare the feelings of Bois-Guilbert, he threw in, from time to time, such hints, as seemed to infer that he laboured under some temporary alienation of mind, so deeply did he appear to be enamoured of the damsel whom he brought along with him.†   (source)
  • "I never noticed any alienation of mind—any aberration of intellect in the late Mr. Featherstone," said Borthrop Trumbull, "but I call this will eccentric.†   (source)
  • We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other.†   (source)
  • Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun-like forehead and wore a large silver cross suspended from her neck, was evidently preoccupied with Henrietta Stackpole, upon whom her eyes constantly rested in a manner suggesting a conflict between deep alienation and yearning wonder.†   (source)
  • Even Mrs. Glegg could not withhold her approval from Tom's words; she felt that the Dodson blood was certainly speaking in him, though, if his father had been a Dodson, there would never have been this wicked alienation of money.†   (source)
  • It was because Lydgate writhed under the idea of getting his neck beneath this vile yoke that he had fallen into a bitter moody state which was continually widening Rosamond's alienation from him.†   (source)
  • A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that no other woman would have suited him so well, and does a little daily snapping and quarrelling without any sense of alienation.†   (source)
  • Dorothea's distress when she was leaving the church came chiefly from the perception that Mr. Casaubon was determined not to speak to his cousin, and that Will's presence at church had served to mark more strongly the alienation between them.†   (source)
  • But now her judgment, instead of being controlled by duteous devotion, was made active by the imbittering discovery that in her past union there had lurked the hidden alienation of secrecy and suspicion.†   (source)
  • He had told his wife that he was simply taking care of this wretched creature, the victim of vice, who might otherwise injure himself; he implied, without the direct form of falsehood, that there was a family tie which bound him to this care, and that there were signs of mental alienation in Raffles which urged caution.†   (source)
  • We have only Mrs. Wilkes to help us and you do your best to alienate and insult her.†   (source)
  • And now she had alienated him from the sister he loved so dearly.†   (source)
  • He carefully avoided issues like the tariff, internal improvements, the Know-Nothing mania, or prohibitionism, each of which would alienate important groups of voters.†   (source)
  • But the whiteheaded children of Pigtail Alley they hated without humor, without any mitigation of a most bitter and alienate hate.†   (source)
  • That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.†   (source)
  • So, she was intensely annoyed when he dropped his masquerade and set out apparently upon a deliberate campaign to alienate Atlanta's good will.†   (source)
  • Another important feature of the tournament was that Lancelot, with innocent idiocy, alienated the Orkneys-finally and for good.†   (source)
  • Always there loomed the danger that an apparently unprovoked attack upon the Confederacy would alienate so many people in the Union and the world at large that it would hopelessly cripple the very cause for which the war would be fought.†   (source)
  • Six weeks later—the delay resulted from a desire to alienate no one from the cause that then stood closest to his heart, the removal of the state capital from Vandalia to Springfield—he and Stone embodied their own opinions in a resolution that was entered in the Journal of the House and promptly forgotten.†   (source)
  • God would punish her for not being nicer to him—punish her for all her bullyings and proddings and storms of temper and cutting remarks, for alienating his friends and shaming him by operating the mills and building the saloon and leasing convicts.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid she's quite alienated the van der Luydens ...†   (source)
  • Had anything occurred that was likely to alienate her from her family?†   (source)
  • Carley wondered if she were not so constituted that such trickery alienated her.†   (source)
  • And here again it was her own mood that succeeded in alienating them almost completely.†   (source)
  • He had come back with nothing that could alienate her.†   (source)
  • What would she have given to live over again the moment that had alienated him?†   (source)
  • But contact with the West had affronted, disgusted, shocked, and alienated her.†   (source)
  • This course of conduct had alienated the old bachelor's affection, once strongly fixed upon him.†   (source)
  • That is what you have gained by alienating me!†   (source)
  • I was going to bring in your cousin—the alienated American.†   (source)
  • But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent.†   (source)
  • There's a great demand just now for the alienated American, and your cousin's a beautiful specimen.†   (source)
  • But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded.†   (source)
  • Imagine a factory—instead of committees of workmen alienating the boss, the boss goes among them smiling, and they smile back, the elder brother and the younger.†   (source)
  • His own content was absolute, but hers held bitterness: the Honeychurches had not forgiven them; they were disgusted at her past hypocrisy; she had alienated Windy Corner, perhaps for ever.†   (source)
  • Continuing his disgraceful deception, he succeeded in the course of the afternoon in alienating the affections of my only ward.†   (source)
  • Something made up of Stewart's effrontery to her; of Florence Kingsley meeting her, frankly as it were, as an equal; of the elder sister's slow, quiet, easy acceptance of this visitor who had been honored at the courts of royalty; of that faint hint of scorn in Alfred's voice, and his amused statement in regard to her picture and the name Majesty—something made up of all these stung Madeline Hammond's pride, alienated her for an instant, and then stimulated her intelligence, excited her interest, and made her resolve to learn a little about this incomprehensible West.†   (source)
  • The order's success was such that the philistines complained that it was alienating men from domestic bliss and a reverence for women.†   (source)
  • I alienated them.†   (source)
  • At the same time he was too good a merchant to wish to alienate a possible future customer, and so he now said: "I'm sorry, young man, but I'm afraid I can't help you in this case.†   (source)
  • But Martin was alienated from the civilized, industrious, nice young men of Digamma Pi, in whose faces he could already see prescriptions, glossy white sterilizers, smart enclosed motors, and glass office-signs in the best gilt lettering.†   (source)
  • And the Newtons, as well as Grace, feeling that this was all due to the new connections which Roberta had recently been making and which were tending to alienate her from Grace, were now content to see her go.†   (source)
  • Like two little old people, absorbed in each other and diffidently exploring new, unwelcoming streets of the city where their alienated children live, Martin and Leora edged into the garnished magnificence of Benson, Hanley and Koch's, the loftiest department store in Zenith.†   (source)
  • He aspired to this other or nothing as he saw it now and proceeded to prove as distant to Dillard as possible, an attitude which by degrees tended to alienate that youth entirely for he saw in Clyde a snob which potentially he was if he could have but won to what he desired.†   (source)
  • Martin was so alienated that he took an anti-social and probably vicious joy in discovering that though the death-rate in tuberculosis certainly had decreased during Pickerbaugh's administration in Nautilus, it had decreased at the same rate in most villages of the district, with no speeches about spitting, no Open Your Windows parades.†   (source)
  • For to establish insanity or "brain storm" would require previous evidence or testimony to the effect that Clyde was of none too sound mind, erratic his whole life long, and with certain specific instances tending to demonstrate how really peculiar he was—relatives (among them the Griffiths of Lycurgus themselves, perhaps), coming on to swear to it—a line of evidence, which, requiring as it would, outright lying and perjury on the part of many as well as reflecting on the Griffiths' blood and brain, was sufficient to alienate both Samuel and Gilbert to the extent that they would have none of it.†   (source)
  • She shook her head and clenched her fingers and rocked to and fro while Glenn, impressed by her own terrors, the pity of the folly which, as he saw it, had led her to this dreadful pass, yet professionally alienated by a type of case that spelled nothing but difficulty for him stood determinedly before her and added: "As I told you before, Miss—" (he paused) "Howard, if that is your name, I am seriously opposed to operations of this kind, just as I am to the folly that brings girls and young men to the point where they seem to think they are necessary.†   (source)
  • She had probably alienated love by the helplessness and fretfulness of a fearful temper, or been unreasonable in wanting a larger share than any one among so many could deserve.†   (source)
  • "To Templestowe!" said his host with surprise again felt his pulse, and then muttered to himself, "His fever is abated, yet seems his mind somewhat alienated and disturbed."†   (source)
  • It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side.†   (source)
  • She went out, looked at the cage, buried the starved little singer, and from that hour her heart softened towards the self-alienated man.†   (source)
  • We must affect our country as our parents, And if at any time we alienate Our love or industry from doing it honor, We must respect effects and teach the soul Matter of conscience and religion, And not desire of rule or benefit.†   (source)
  • In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts:[152] they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.†   (source)
  • He had been walking for some time, when, directly in front of him, borne back by the summer breeze, he heard a few words uttered in that bright Parisian idiom from which his ears had begun to alienate themselves.†   (source)
  • What alienates him from the house?†   (source)
  • Not many people came to these soirees at the chemist's, his scandal-mongering and political opinions having successfully alienated various respectable persons from him.†   (source)
  • I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother.†   (source)
  • In addition to the dread that, having led up to so much mischief, it would be now more likely than ever to alienate Joe from me if he believed it, I had a further restraining dread that he would not believe it, but would assort it with the fabulous dogs and veal-cutlets as a monstrous invention.†   (source)
  • As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheritance, the messenger on horseback had exactly the same possessions as the King, the first Minister of State, or the richest merchant in London.†   (source)
  • Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more.†   (source)
  • It has been alienated from the Pyncheons these four-score years; but the Judge had kept it in his eye, and had set his heart on reannexing it to the small demesne still left around the Seven Gables; and now, during this odd fit of oblivion, the fatal hammer must have fallen, and transferred our ancient patrimony to some alien possessor.†   (source)
  • After what had passed to wound and alienate the two families, the continuance of the Bertrams and Grants in such close neighbourhood would have been most distressing; but the absence of the latter, for some months purposely lengthened, ended very fortunately in the necessity, or at least the practicability, of a permanent removal.†   (source)
  • The night before he left home, happening to see him walking in the garden about sunset, and remembering, as I looked at him, that this man, alienated as he now was, had once saved my life, and that we were near relations, I was moved to make a last attempt to regain his friendship.†   (source)
  • Such opportunities as I have been enabled to alienate from my domestic duties, I have devoted to corresponding at some length with my family.†   (source)
  • It might alienate my protector.†   (source)
  • The sister with whom she was used to be on easy terms was now become her greatest enemy: they were alienated from each other; and Julia was not superior to the hope of some distressing end to the attentions which were still carrying on there, some punishment to Maria for conduct so shameful towards herself as well as towards Mr. Rushworth.†   (source)
  • Let me hasten to add," continued he, "that the testator, having only the right to alienate a part of his fortune, and having alienated it all, the will will not bear scrutiny, and is declared null and void."†   (source)
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