There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitary valley.
She walked almost the whole day until she reached the middle of the forest, where it was the darkest, and there stood a solitary house, which she did not like, for it looked so dark and dismal.
it was so quiet, so solitary: the little fish scampered away as fast as it could, out where the water was bright and clear, and there were fishes to see.
So he betook himself up thither, and smoked his pipe as he made his solitary rounds.
But in India, in the castle on the Tree of the Sun, all was solitary and still, since the brothers had gone away one after the other.
Grandmother says that she has heard her own grandmother tell of him; he is said to lead a solitary life, and to have nobody with whom he can converse save the great old church Bell.
(1851) IN the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through its yard.
The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one—the one solitary Phoenix bird.
Not a single herdsman did we meet, not a solitary hut did we pass; everything appeared lonely and deserted—only a shooting star showed that in the heavens there was yet life.
The grass grows rank among the broad flagstones, and in the morning twilight thousands of tame pigeons flutter around the solitary lofty tower.
During the first few days I went to live in the town, I felt low-spirited and solitary enough.
She thought with terror of the solitary walk, and of the horrible ghouls, but her will was firm, as well as her trust in Providence.
