Lexicographical Neighbors of Remotenesses
Literary usage of Remotenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1808)
"It may be objected against this opinion, that white cannot maintain itself in
remotenesses, because it is ordinarily used to bring the objects nearer on the ..."
2. The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes by John Dryden (1808)
"... employed brown and earthy colours upon the fore-part, and has reserved his
greatest lights for remotenesses, and the back parts of his landscapes. ..."
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1881)
"All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being
ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice ..."
4. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1906)
"... but now everybody goes everywhere; and Switzerland, and many other regions
which were unvisited and unknown remotenesses a hundred years ago, ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"Out of a cattle-pasturing peasant village lost in the remotenesses of an. un-
visited wilderness and atrophied with ages of stupefaction and ignorance we ..."
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