1419 examples of isolate in sentences

Five miles of irregular upland, during the long inimical seasons, with their sleets, snows, rains, and mists, afford withdrawing space enough to isolate a Timon or a Nebuchadnezzar; much less, in fair weather, to please that less repellent tribe, the poets, philosophers, artists, and others who "conceive and meditate of pleasant things.

Efforts to isolate the iodine containing active principle in pure form were fruitless until the work of Kendall at the Mayo Foundation.

And if there be no guide of humanity but the intellect, and nothing worthy of its regard but what that intellect can isolate and describe in the forms peculiar to its operations,that is, if a man has relations to nothing beyond his definition, is not a creature of the immeasurable,then these men are right.

If we isolate these elements for the purposes of exposition, we shall find that the principle of the first is much simpler and more easy of obedience than the principle of the second.

While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what is good and doing good in all denominations of religion, and shun whatever would isolate us from a true sense of goodness in otherswe cannot serve mammon.

Isolate two rooms, if possible, and have these, if convenient, at the top of the house.

In the former case it was possible to isolate the conflict, in the latter it has involved the greater part of Europe in a common disaster.

The Central Committee, which had emitted contrary advice, declares its intention of adhering to the following resolutions: "'All around the quarters occupied by the enemy, barricades shall be raised so as to isolate completely that part of the town.

but what dull ache is this in that obscurely sensitive region, somewhere below the heart, where the nervous centre called the semilunar ganglion lies unconscious of itself until a great grief or a mastering anxiety reaches it through all the non-conductors which isolate it from ordinary impressions?

As much as his duties permitted, he loved to isolate himself from all; when he could remain some time alone in his cabin, or gaze upon the sea from a retired corner of the deck and watch the ploughing of the vessel, then only he was happy.

But, indeed, it is impossible to isolate complete communities of men, or to trace any but rude general resemblances between group and group.

If you isolate a thing, you may get the pure essence of gravity.

An oil lamp, swinging from the ceiling, seemed to isolate him in a pool of light.

Mahometans triumphed over Christians in the East and in Spainif we may for a moment isolate moral conditions from the rest of the total circumstancesnot because their scheme of duty was more elevated or comprehensive, but because their respect for duty was more strenuous and fervid.

Did it not rather tend to isolate the soul in a paradise of art, to consecrate the pursuit of individual emotion?

But the investigation of science ardently pursued is more likely to tend to isolate the explorer from his kind than the poetical contemplation of nature, for the simple reason that the scientist's business is not primarily with emotion but with concrete fact; while to the poet the emotions of love and friendship, of patriotism and duty, will all tend to be the object of impassioned speculation too.

You cannot isolate government, and judge it apart from the other and deeper forces of the time.

If society has a right attitude toward the subject, if it has imagination and sympathy and understanding, it will isolate these victims, not in anger but in pity, solely for the protection of the whole.

Among the Thompson Indians of British Columbia every woman had to isolate herself from the rest of the people during every recurring period of menstruation, and had to live some little way off in a small brush or bark lodge made for the purpose.

That the danger is believed to be especially great at the first menstruation appears from the unusual precautions taken to isolate girls at this crisis.

But the precautions thus taken to isolate or insulate the girl are dictated by a regard for her own safety as well as for the safety of others.

This was not enough; it was necessary besides to isolate France.

As it is impossible to isolate Great Britain from Europe, it is equally impossible to prevent the conveyance of information to the enemy with more or less rapidity.

The men exchanged no words; the solitude of the cabin, instead of drawing them together, seemed to isolate each one in selfish distrust of the others.

I have brought the nursery down to the spare room, and in the large attic, with plenty of disinfecting fluid, we can, as the doctor said, isolate the fever.

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