There wasn't a thing, not one solitary thing, under or behind which he could hide.
She was just a lonely, solitary little creature and she felt very friendless.
She had not half the fascination of that solitary, intrepid figure who faced all alone the shadows of the Dark Valley and the encounter with Apollyon.
The stony and devious lanes wound about the bleak hillside, passing here and there small, solitary cottages of whitewashed stone, with children, fowls, and dogs at the doors, all embowered in huge fuchsia trees.
Beatrice, in white, sat solitary amid cushions, while two large hampers occupied most of the coachman's box.
A solitary biscuit-warehouseman was examining the ware in order to determine the remuneration of the pressers.
It was absolutely impossible, yet she feared it, and blushed, all solitary there in the passage, for shame.
As he approached the little solitary girl in his course he gave her a reluctant acid recognition; then he returned to his hearth.
As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming.
What wonder that the second evening found me like the first—untamed, tortured, again pacing a solitary room in an unalterable passion of silent desolation?
I think I have one friend of my own, but am not sure; and till I am sure, I live solitary.
My drawing, my pencils, my precious copy, gathered into one crushed-up handful, perished from before my sight; I myself appeared to be shaken or emptied out of my chair, as a solitary and withered nutmeg might be emptied out of a spice-box by an excited cook.
One Sunday afternoon, having walked the distance of half a league to the Protestant church, I came back weary and exhausted; and taking refuge in my solitary sanctuary, the first classe, I was glad to sit down, and to make of my desk a pillow for my arms and head.
Pierre marked my empty hands—she could not believe I had been so remiss; with avidity her eye roved over and round me: surely I must have some solitary symbolic flower somewhere: some small knot of violets, something to win myself praise for taste, commendation for ingenuity.
I have given more than one solitary moment to thoughts and calculations of your estimate of Lucy Snowe: was it always kind or just?
A thought struck me—one of those queer fantastic thoughts that will sometimes strike solitary people.
The mid-blank is always a beclouded point for the solitary: his nerves ache with the strain of long expectancy; the doubts hitherto repelled gather now to a mass and—strong in accumulation—roll back upon him with a force which savours of vindictiveness.
Something in that vast solitary garret sounded strangely.
I remembered the very shapes of the paving-stones which I had noted with idle eye, while, with a thick-beating heart, I waited the unclosing of that door at which I stood—a solitary and a suppliant.
While I looked, the thought of the Rue Fossette came across me—of the walled-in garden and school-house, and of the dark, vast "classes," where, as at this very hour, it was my wont to wander all solitary, gazing at the stars through the high, blindless windows, and listening to the distant voice of the reader in the refectory, monotonously exercised upon the "lecture pieuse.