sequesteredness

Updated: May 29, 2025

The sea between was of a strange thick bluishness, almost like raw egg-white; while, as always here, some snow-clouds, white and woolly, floated in the pale sky. Down this avenue, which produced a mysterious impression of Cyclopean cathedrals and odd sequesteredness, I had not passed a mile, when I sighted a black object at the end. I rushed to the shrouds, and very soon made out a whaler.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud