And surely, as the thought did stir in me, it did be of beauty that we did be both of us true unto the other, in that life, and I never to have kist a maid, until that I kist Mine Own, and she to have been likewise, and to have fended all men from her, because that they did be Strangers unto her inwardness, and so we two to be so utter together, both in that our spirits did be knit, being each the complement of the other, and because that we had no secret pains of remembered things, to set any Apartness between our hearts.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
True, he had always understood that he was the best boy in town and he intended to be a minister when he grew up; but he had never before comprehended the full extent of his sanctity, and, from that fraught moment onward, he had an almost theatrical sense of his set-Apartness.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
She was equal to Pitt, in her seeming careless Apartness; the difference was, that with her it was seeming, and with him reality.
"A Red Wallflower"
Susan Warner