Above this lies the park and chaparral region, with oaks, mostly evergreen, planted wide apart, and blooming shrubs from three to ten feet high; manzanita and ceanothus of several species, mixed with rhamnus, cercis, pickeringia, cherry, amelanchier, and adenostoma, in shaggy, interlocking thickets, and many species of hosackia, clover, monardella, castilleia, etc., in the openings.

These two ladies, indeed, were widely apart.

It was because she seemed so great and noble, and utterly apart from all these things.

apart, asunder; wide apart, wide asunder; longo intervallo

"If," he said, "in giving you this sketch of the process by which our present social order has been established, I should mention a class or party who have stood at certain times distinctly apart from or in opposition to the majority, I must, in the first place, beg you to ask no questions about them, and in the next not to repeat incautiously the little I may tell you, or to show, by asking questions of others, what you have heard from me.

Veronica's looks, her accent and her expressions set her conspicuously apart from the other girls.

He spoke with an eagerness curiously apart from his words: "There seems to be no doubt that the Shawnees are really gone.

[apart, dully] . . .

She had rich red lips, the only colour in her face, and these, habitually slightly apart, showed pearly-white glistening teeth.

Each seemed happier apart, and each was intent on her own affairs.

Love and marriage had always seemed infinitely apart from his wild, adventurous life.

There is an intense rivalry, it seems, between our cook and the engineer-man's cook; and although we dined together, our bills-of-fare were kept jealously apart.

It was above all the possession of the Dalmatian seaboard that tempted Austria to occupy Bosnia, and so conversely the acquisition of Bosnia by Serbia would at once compel the latter, willy-nilly (quite apart from all racial affinities or sentiments), to aspire to Dalmatia as well.

It will merely make more clear to us the things of which we have to study the Why; and enable us to keep the How and the Why more religiously apart from each other.

Until a few years ago the two were interbred, but disputes as to their essential differences led the Kennel Club to intervene and the types have since been kept rigidly apart, the smart little bat-eared Bulldogs of France receiving recognition under the breed name of Bouledogues Francais.

But I had no assistance; Veronica thought that her share of my plans must consist of a diligent notice of all that I did, which she gave, and then went to her own life, kept sacredly apart.

Frank Headley, the curate, who had been watching all sadly apart, longing to do something which no one could mistake.

Adv. separately &c adj.; one by one, severally, apart; adrift, asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.

Somehow, real as he had been, he seemed at this moment strangely apart, something in the abstract.

" This silenced Burnley for the day, and he remained sullenly apart; still the idea never left his mind.

After all, she did not much regret the wave of fate which had swept her and her maid-chaperon temporarily apart.

There was no expression whatever in his face and his lips stood vacantly apart.

Now this way I did be, as I have told; and the Maid to be quietly naughty in perverseness, as also I have set out; yet to have a strict mind to her duties, and to go now wondrous sedate upon the journey; yet alway apart.

While I should not have marked out this as fitting woman's work, especially in the recent very inclement weather, I desire to record my view that it has been bravely done, well done, and most usefully done, and I wish to mark this the more emphatically as my views and those of Mrs. Besant seem wider apart than I could have deemed possible on many of the points of principle underlying what is every day growing into a most serious struggle."

[Apart, anxiously] No Michael yet.