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Set apart   /sɛt əpˈɑrt/   Listen
Set apart

verb
1.
Select something or someone for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: assign, specify.
2.
Set apart from others.  Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, sequestrate.






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"Set apart" Quotes from Famous Books



... followed by extended intervals of calm. They became almost continuous, and the victim writhed about, clawed and bleeding from his own bites, his face almost black, his eyes tremulous and yellow, looking like some monstrous beast set apart from all the human species. The old doctor had stopped asking about the youth. What was the use? It was all over. The women wept hopelessly. Death was certain. They only bewailed the long hours, perhaps ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... Dennis, a timid, gentle sound to her voice, "that all Christians ought to put religion 'first, best, and always,' as your husband said? I fancied that some were set apart to do a ...
— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden

... But in the anapaestic form as well as in the dactylic there is a clear duality in the arrangement of elements within the group, since the two unaccented beats fall, as before, into one natural group, while the accented element is set apart by its widely differentiated magnitude. The ratios follow: first interval to second, 1.000:1.009; first ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... the sailors wondered because I sat and laboured and would not sing their ribald song of the loves of Cleopatra. For they, too, began to fear me, and mutter concerning me among themselves. Then I knew that I was a man accursed and set apart—a man whom none ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard

... books, or in other words with their press relationships, the personal history attaching to them—habent sua fata libelli—is not without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially prepared for this use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the library, dispersed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Thenford, Northamptonshire, ...
— Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University • Anonymous


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