out-of-the-worldness

Updated: May 20, 2025

But the heather-clad hills of Heswall, and the old red sandstone ridge, which form the ancient borough of the "Hundred of Wirral," afford an efficient shelter from the insistent taint of out-of-the-worldness. Every inch of the Sands of Dee were dear to me. I learned to know their every bank and gutter.

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell - A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Though the house and its farm were so near, and I could see half a dozen other homesteads not far away, yet there was not a living soul in sight, or any sound save from the peewees and the gulls. I don't know how to convey the impression of out-of-the-worldness and back-of-beyondness produced by this sense of silence and space, and by the look of the house and its whole surroundings.

J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston - The Man from the Clouds