Now the earthenware pot tried its best to keep
aloof from the brass one, which cried out: "Fear nothing, friend, I will not strike you."
Fables
Nevertheless I will go, that I may see my dear son and learn what sorrow has befallen him though he is still holding
aloof from battle."
Iliad
After the eager rivalry and almost hostility displayed by these companies in their late campaigns, it might be expected that, when thus brought in juxtaposition, they would hold themselves warily and sternly
aloof from each other, and, should they happen to come in contact, brawl and bloodshed would ensue.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
Nicholas felt himself irredeemably indebted to Sonya for all she was doing for his mother and greatly admired her patience and devotion, but tried to keep
aloof from her.
War and Peace
It is true that I have never cared greatly for 'On the Heights,' which in its dealing with royalties seems too far
aloof from the ordinary human life, and which on the moral side finally fades out into a German mistiness.
My Literary Passions
His whole life he had kept
aloof from his kind, and he still desired to keep aloof.
White Fang
She held aloof from me, and when Snider took his turn at the wheel, sat beside him, upon the pretext that she wished to learn how to steer the launch.
I had enjoyed her company at first, but since the trip across the Channel I had held aloof from her.
The Lost Continent
I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually.
I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
They had begun the morning with an indifferent salutation, and both had rejoiced in being
aloof from each other, like a patient who has actually done without his opium, in spite of former failures in resolution.
The Mill on the Floss
The corps etiquette extended even to us, who were strangers, and required us to group with the white corps only, and speak only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep
aloof from the caps of the other colors.
Tramp Abroad
The landlord forced Marner to take off his coat, and then to sit down on a chair
aloof from every one else, in the centre of the circle and in the direct rays of the fire.
Silas Marner
Although, co-chairmen of the newly unified party have claimed that their party will become the alternative force, by keeping
aloof from the mother party, it cannot be possible, say political observers.
Will RPP (Unified) be the alternative force?
I have tried to remain
aloof from the trauma of moving, but now it is so close the stress is gathering.
I'm worried I might end up roaming the streets