Use alone in a sentence
Sentences starting with alone
- Alone she was with the woman and the plague. [11]
- Alone the woman was-- poor soul! [11]
- Alone of all these Edith had been faithful in her visits, always, when she was in town. [4]
- Alone on the prairie--a separate prairie for every criminal--that would take a lot of space; but the idea is all right. [11]
- Alone on the prairie for punishment--well, I should like to see it tried. [11]
- Alone and friendless, in want and guilt, she remained behind with a hard-hearted and covetous hostess, who had brought her before the judge, and so into prison. [10]
- Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. [6]
- Alone and tearless he paced the chamber that Bianca had occupied. [10]
- Alone he was, for only to one may the doors within doors be opened-only to one so dear that all else is everlastingly distant may the true tale of the life beneath life be told. [11]
Sentences ending with alone
- There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
- Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
- I didn't tell you, because I knew you were afraid to be left alone. [13]
- For my part you will find me grateful, and not in words alone. [10]
- I have left you too much alone. [11]
- In such case you should not see Monsieur Masson here alone. [11]
- But certainly, if you mean that, I will leave the basket of roses, and go to her alone. [10]
- Said he: "Tom, you let him alone. [5]
- I don't ask you for my own sake alone. [11]
- It rests with you alone. [7]
Short sentences using alone
- You shall not work alone. [11]
- Leave me alone with him. [11]
- Gorgias alone remained with him. [10]
- Leave me alone with her. [6]
- Alone, what can we do? [11]
- Once more Arsinoe was alone. [10]
- I will not wait alone. [11]
- I'd not pay up alone. [11]
- It's not for that alone? [11]
- He digested his sufferings alone. [2]
Sentences containing alone two or more times
- Then, when she was freed again--she saw it all quite clearly--two heads had been cut off in the courtyard of the Hall of justice: Orion's and Paula's--and she was left alone, quite alone and forlorn. [10]
- For him alone this supply would have been bountiful to begin a sojourn in the wilderness, but he was no longer alone. [13]
- Guida was off there alone in Jersey-- alone. [11]
- She alone of the three is real, and she alone is worshipped for attributes which she does not possess. [9]
- Anybody can find the sort he prefers, here, and he just lets the others alone, and they let him alone. [5]
- He had lived the last three years so much alone, had been cut off so completely from his kind--had lived so much alone. [11]
- And there were the days when he rode alone, the nights when he read or wrote alone, when her joy was turned to misery; there were the alternating periods of passion and alienation. [9]
- Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. [2]
- He was convinced that he alone could maintain command of the army in these difficult circumstances, and that in all the world he alone could encounter the invincible Napoleon without fear, and he was horrified at the thought of the order he had to issue. [2]
- But as he skated alone he swam alone, appearing and disappearing at the swimming-place silently, with never a salutation to any one. [4]
More example sentences with the word alone in them
- That would be your legacy and your blessing to her--the death of a murderer; and she would be left alone with the woman that would hate you in death! [11]
- He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him. [5]
- I know that you, you alone, kept him prisoner here five long years. [11]
- I must tell you that I am not alone in the opinion that you should resign. [9]
- There, now, if you please, go before me, and let me stay here alone a little while. [10]
- They say that you cannot live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. [5]
- In the battle you are alone, but the hand to heal the wounds may be another's. [11]
- How strange that you and I alone to this day should have his secret! [6]
- His conduct to you alone deserves that. [10]
- He had not yet come to a desire to share his secret with any confidant, but preferred to be much alone and muse on it, creating a world which was without evil, without doubt, undisturbed by criticism. [4]
- But it is yet a thousand-fold more painful to feel that the love which every woman has a right to possess for herself alone, must be shared with a hundred others! [10]
- This alone, the writer thinks, gives him some right to greatness. [9]
- The last severe wrench was come, and she had left him standing there alone in the cold, divining what was in his heart as though it were in her own. [9]
- He and Cloud-in-the-Sky wrapped themselves in their blankets like mummies, covering the head completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone in an austere and tenantless world. [11]
- He hoped fortune would so favour him that he could arrange for the meeting of the two alone, or, at least, in his presence only. [11]
- Now the king would ride back alone. [11]
- The good you would put in a mill to watch the stones grind, and the bad you would put on a prairie alone to make the grist for the grinding. [11]
- He and she would meet alone in the desert. [11]
- In truth, Philip would have said that he saw very little of Evelyn, because he never saw her absolutely alone. [4]
- No, no, she would go alone. [11]
- Sometimes the others would get up and go away and the couple, left alone, still remained silent. [2]
- And presently she would dine alone with Ian in her husband's house--and with her husband's blessing. [11]
- I think this would develop Lee's real condition and purposes better than the cavalry alone can do. [7]
- Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, and the players would begin at the beginning and do the entire opera over again with only that one individual in the vast solemn theater for audience. [5]
- The bed alone would almost have filled her little room at home. [9]
- When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
- He was not working alone here as he did at Richtberg; for Ulrich heard more than one hammer striking iron in the workshop. [10]
- After he had worked at the Rathhaus long after hours, he would go home alone, and no one sought him out to pass an hour in his company, for everyone feared the rough and brutal frankness of his speech. [10]
- The piece of work was only half unrolled, but Orion at once saw the spot whence its crowning glory was now missing--the large emerald which, as he alone could know, was on its way to Constantinople. [10]
- He allowed to work her up and get her started and then leave her alone and let her burn herself out. [5]
- She checked Myrtilus's words with an imperious "Let me alone! [10]
- He repeated the words that he had written to this effect on a tile, and which requested Publius to come quite alone to the spot indicated, since she dare not speak with him in the temple. [10]
- This is my word to thee, that thou mayst know that I am not alone. [11]
- You take my word for it, the best way is to leave 'em alone. [9]
- Perhaps the occupants wondered to see her on foot and alone. [4]
- Our weal and woe are in your hands alone. [10]
- He was alone, without friends, except among the acquaintances he had made in his new residence. [6]
- I'd go down with you to the mill, but you should go alone. [11]
- She was alone with this secret. [11]
- Trafford was alone with the woman through whom his life had been turned awry. [11]
- He was alone with the sky and the desert and his fate. [11]
- I was alone with the servant, a bright fire was blazing in the stove, and, obedient to a hasty impulse, I told him to throw the whole contents of the box into the fire. [10]
- She was alone, with the exception of the priest in charge. [10]
- I was alone with the Esquimaux and his daughter. [11]
- I liked being with the dead--liked being alone with them. [5]
- Her eyes filled with tears again, as she thought of her friend--her sister-sitting in that palace alone, forsaken, banished, and looking forward to an ignominious death. [10]
- When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect. [4]
- She covered them with rouge every day, to conceal the evidence of the sorrowful hours she spent when alone? [10]
- Having been sent with papers from Kutuzov to the Tsarevich, he looked in on Boris, hoping to find him alone. [2]
- He had intruded with no advice, he had offered no comment that she had come downstairs alone, without Lise. [9]
- Then I laughed with my cousin; and when I was once more alone I marvelled at the mercy of a benevolent Providence, by whose ruling a small joy makes us to forget our heavy griefs, though it were but for a moment. [10]
- He is alone with its majesty. [4]
- Philometer, now alone with his wife, said with mild reproach: "How could you abandon yourself to such unmeasured anger? [10]
- When again alone with his wife, he asked hastily "Will you be indulgent and help me? [10]
- He is alone with his wife, and with his own people. [11]
- He was alone with his solitary hills, leaning on his rifle. [11]
- He was alone with his guests. [10]
- But when alone with him he conversed in the old way, and his faults of memory seemed at times to disappear. [6]
- He found her with her father alone, her head at her knees. [11]
- I will fight with any man all alone, without a gun or arrow or anything. [11]
- Princess Mary turned with absent-minded questioning look to Pierre, who hat in hand and with a smile on his face was the last of the guests to approach her after the old prince had gone out and they were left alone in the drawing room. [2]
- Many a day, winter and summer, Lem had gone that road alone, whistling, and never before heeding that silence. [9]
- So in I wint, the Injin not comin', and there in the middle of the tint stood the Tall Master, alone. [11]
- Out of those windows, to Victoria, shone honesty and truth, and the peace which these alone may bring. [9]
- Alone, in a window of the castle, sits a lady at her work, who might be the countess; only, I am sorry, there is no countess, nothing but a frau, in that old feudal dwelling. [4]
- I chose to win you by personal means alone, to have you give yourself to Tinoir Doltaire because you set him before any other man. [11]
- Our performance to-morrow will--at any rate--but--Zoe, pray be good enough to retire with the maids; I have a few words to say to my brother alone. [10]
- No sportsman, however, will use anything but a fly, except he happens to be alone. [4]
- Our shout alone will shake them down, and they will fall on our side, we may choose the best for our own use. [10]
- In time man will exterminate the rest of the wild creatures of Australia, but this one will probably survive, for man is his friend and lets him alone. [5]
- Leaving it alone will be your perfect security against it. [7]
- His heart beat wildly, for to-day--perhaps he might find Selene alone. [10]
- He made that wild trip solitary and alone. [5]
- Now tell me, why is it that a conscience can't haul a man over the coals once, for an offense, and then let him alone? [5]
- But the mass, whose meaning she did not understand, offered no solace to the soul which yearned for love alone. [10]
- She alone knew whom she meant when she spoke of the visitor she expected at Irenia, Archibius's estate. [10]
- It was Honora whom Mr. Spence sought after breakfast, and to whom he declared that her presence alone prevented him from leaving that afternoon. [9]
- The high-priest alone, who, as Caesar's host, had gone up to the side of the throne, and two or three others, among them the governor of the town, a tall, elderly man of Macedonian descent, paid no heed to the brute. [10]
- The clay Eros, who with bent knee was aiming at a victim visible to himself alone, was also his work. [10]
- A tawdry constable, who held with a trembling hand the bridle of the tired horse, alone remained. [9]
- These were they who had lost fathers and brothers; and now were going out alone with the shadow of the plague over them, for there was none to say them nay. [11]
- Mr. Paul Pardriff, who had a guilty conscience about the clipping, and vividly bearing in mind Mr. Blodgett's mishap, alone avoided young Mr. Vane; and escaped through the type-setting room and down an outside stairway in the rear when that gentleman called. [9]
- Just for a whim of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone in the country. [2]
- In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. [5]
- Once in a while we caught sight of a yellow blaze in a tree, made by himself scarce a month gone, when he came southward alone to fetch Polly Ann. [9]
- For a little while he was left alone and involuntarily witnessed what was taking place on the other two tables. [2]
- The Pilot alone, which relied on sensation for its circulation, kept hammering away for a time with veiled accusations. [9]
- A dance, for which her partner came to seek her, put an end to her discourse with her future directeur de conscience, but the next evening Monsieur de Jobert came to see Helene when she was alone, and after that often came again. [2]
- On going up-stairs where Mrs. H. was sitting alone, just as I entered the room she pushed a paper across the table towards me, saying that perhaps it might interest me. [6]
- Entering the room where Lepage sat alone, he said: "Lepage, the time has come for good-bye. [11]
- In this world where every thing is deceitful, and no one is outspoken, the man who alone is under the necessity of proclaiming what he considers the truth, is like a warrior who opposes himself without shield or harness to a fully armed foe. [10]
- Three years afterward, when there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificed to appease the devil, the princess came to him, warned him of his danger, and led him secretly and alone in the night to the camp of a chieftain who protected him. [4]
- But I laugh when the English come in the town, and when I see Bigot fly to his palace alone to get his treasure-chest I think it is my time. [11]
- Then, one morning when she was alone in the office with young Caldwell, who was absorbed in some reports, Ditmar entered unexpectedly and looked her full in the eyes, surprising her into answering his glance before she could turn away, hating herself and hating him. [9]
- He alone understood what was meant by "scenery. [4]
- You don't know what it is, to be all alone, and have to struggle against every one. [10]
- Curious to see what changes time had wrought, she peered through the by no means narrow crack and overlooked the minister's spacious office, where he was now entirely alone with the Councillor Viglius. [10]
- She vaguely felt, what all realise sooner or later, that we must live our dark hours alone. [11]
- Duvarney and I were thus alone for a moment, and he straightway dropped a hand upon my shoulder. [11]
- Here, he owned, were the elements of intellectual delightfulness, but he said their assemblage in such quantity alone denied the salon; there was too much of a good thing. [8]
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