Literary notes about apart (AI summary)
In many of these works, “apart” signifies both physical separation and conceptual distinction. Sometimes it denotes literal distance, as when characters stand or sit away from one another ([1], [2]) or move away to be alone ([3], [4]). In other instances, “apart” marks an exclusion or an exception, as seen in references to something being set aside for a special purpose ([5], [6]), or used in the sense of “besides” or “other than,” indicating differing concerns or priorities ([7], [8], [9]). Additionally, “apart” can convey emotional estrangement, underscoring separations of affection ([10], [11], [12]), or dividing broader ideas (like skill learned “apart from thinking” in [13]). Through these nuanced usages, authors employ “apart” to highlight the contrasts—physical, social, and ideological—that shape their narratives.
- He stood with his bare feet wide apart, bent his head, and pondered.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - But, in a corner, sitting apart from the rest, are two females of a more interesting appearance than common.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - He had a few minutes with Medina-saroté before she went apart to sleep.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - He raised his head with unusual pleasure at the sight of the priest, and took him a few paces apart.
— from The innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton - 253 Capedunculæ seem to have been bowls or cups, with handles on each side, set apart for the use of the altar.—
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero - All the poor and rocky land set apart for a national timber reserve, in which our children play, and our young men hunt, and our poets dwell!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - Apart from these, we have preferred to leave the book just as it appeared in the two editions, which were published in Stendhal's own lifetime.
— from On Love by Stendhal - Apart from that, the children of our household were entirely free from the fuss of being too much looked after.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - “Yes, apart from her interest in the house (that she has), apart from dress and broderie anglaise , she has no serious interests.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - They keep romance and marriage apart——” Tommy flushed.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - He had the sense that whatever she said was uttered in the vision of a fatality that kept them apart.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - "We just drifted apart."
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - And skill obtained apart from thinking is not connected with any sense of the purposes for which it is to be used.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
