set apart

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set someone/something apart (from someone/something)

to show someone or something to be different or special. Those selected as leaders of the future have qualities that set them apart. He's the one in the big white hat and bow tie, which sets him apart from all the men in dark suits.

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The Mice thought that the cause of their frequent defeats was that they had no leaders set apart from the general army to command them, and that they were exposed to dangers from lack of discipline. Fables by Aesop View in context Hence there have been, in all ages and nations, certain places set apart for public rendezvous, where the curious might meet and satisfy their mutual curiosity. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

The Mice thought that the cause of their frequent defeats was that they had no leaders set apart from the general army to command them, and that they were exposed to dangers from lack of discipline.

Fables by Aesop View in context

Hence there have been, in all ages and nations, certain places set apart for public rendezvous, where the curious might meet and satisfy their mutual curiosity.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context

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