The difference between her and me might be figured by that between the stately ship cruising safe on smooth seas, with its full complement of crew, a captain gay and brave, and venturous and provident; and the life-boat, which most days of the year lies dry and solitary in an old, dark boat-house, only putting to sea when the billows run high in rough weather, when cloud encounters water, when danger and death divide between them the rule of the great deep.
After all, you are solitary and a stranger, and have your way to make and your bread to earn; it may be well that you should become known.
I well remember that I exchanged but two sentences that day with any living being: not that I felt solitary; I was glad to be quiet.
Had she creased one solitary article, I own I should have felt much greater difficulty in forgiving her; but finding all straight and orderly, I said, "Let bygones be bygones.
On summer mornings I used to rise early, to enjoy them alone; on summer evenings, to linger solitary, to keep tryste with the rising moon, or taste one kiss of the evening breeze, or fancy rather than feel the freshness of dew descending.
It cannot be denied that on entering this room I trembled somewhat; felt uncertain, solitary, wretched; wished to Heaven I knew whether I was doing right or wrong; felt convinced that it was the last, but could not help myself.
Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades.
The last of these, at Folkestone Court, in May, was remarkable for the cold-blooded pistolling of the page, who surprised the masked and solitary burglar.
I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
He had no friends in the sense of companions; to all outward appearance his life was solitary and devoid of any human interest.
No sign of life was visible, save a big black crow winging his solitary way across a leaden field.
It blew bleak as winter—all round was solitary.
And, hard though it be to crush her buoyant spirit, I must persevere in making her sad while I live, and leaving her solitary when I die.
The summer shone in full prime; and she took such a taste for this solitary rambling that she often contrived to remain out from breakfast till tea; and then the evenings were spent in recounting her fanciful tales.
Grief, and that together, transformed him into a complete hermit: he threw up his office of magistrate, ceased even to attend church, avoided the village on all occasions, and spent a life of entire seclusion within the limits of his park and grounds; only varied by solitary rambles on the moors, and visits to the grave of his wife, mostly at evening, or early morning before other wanderers were abroad.
" Under these circumstances I remained solitary.
CHAPTER I 1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
At last Captain Nemo remained the solitary survivor of all those who had taken refuge with him in the depths of the ocean.
Now, of these three well-watered valleys, either might have served as a retreat to some solitary who would have found there everything necessary for life.
Beyond, on the left bank, a few scattered trees appeared, and three miles further even these dwindled into solitary groups among the western spurs of the mountain, whose arid ridge sloped down to the shore.
