With many other particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like
exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead.
Germain, I don't know that from the point of view of
exclusiveness it is any great loss to be here.
The beauty, fashion, and
exclusiveness of Port Middlebay, flocked to do honour to one so deservedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular.
In the end, he abandoned all other forms of wager, and gave himself up to "I'll bet the Devil my head," with a pertinacity and
exclusiveness of devotion that displeased not less than it surprised me.
This was no more than a whim, however, prompted by pride in such
exclusiveness of diet only possible to one in such high place.
The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar religious experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity and
exclusiveness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of years ago, travelled the same road and had the same experience; but he, being wise, knew it to be universal, and treated his neighbors accordingly, and is even said to have invented and established worship among men.
For it must be remembered that this was a dark period; and in spite of venerable colleges which used great efforts to secure purity of knowledge by making it scarce, and to exclude error by a rigid
exclusiveness in relation to fees and appointments, it happened that very ignorant young gentlemen were promoted in town, and many more got a legal right to practise over large areas in the country.
But this did not enter into the plans of the governess, an intriguing person hatching a most sinister plot under her severe air of distant, fashionable
exclusiveness. Good little Fyne's eyes bulged with solemn horror as he revealed to me, in agitated speech, his wife's more than suspicions, at the time, of that, Mrs., Mrs.
When each new speaker strikes a new light, emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker, to oppress us with the greatness and
exclusiveness of his own thought, then yields us to another redeemer, we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
Proud of her rank and
exclusiveness, she had resolved to have as little as possible to do with persons who did not share both with her.
George's mouth had all the
exclusiveness of a fashionable club.
It was in its
exclusiveness an ideal abode for hatching superior plots--whether serious or futile.