Use solitude in a sentence
Sentences starting with solitude
- Solitude of itself, like that of a country inn in summer, and of a city hotel in winter. [6]
- Solitude weighed on him, and he looked about him wildly, as though seeking some support. [10]
- Solitude dwelt in her chamber--no sound from the neighboring world penetrated its stillness; it appeared a temple of silence, of repose, and of mystery. [5]
- Solitude fixes our hearts immovably on things--call it madness, what you will. [11]
- Solitude may be cheered, and made endurable beyond what I can believe. [14]
- Solitude to the active mind is not to be endured alone--no. [11]
Sentences ending with solitude
- As he sat upon the veranda, King could not rid himself of the impression that this must be a mocking dream, this appearance of emptiness and solitude. [4]
- It is incredible to reflect that things as familiar all over the world to-day as household words, belong in the history and in the shadowy legends of this silent, mournful solitude. [5]
- They were sacred to her own solitude. [11]
- It is in the midst of a great solitude. [5]
- To add to the gloom, almost every living thing seems to have departed, and not a whistle of a bird nor the bark of the squirrel can be heard in this solitude. [5]
- It had all the characteristics of the range rider's--the leanness, the red burn of the sun, and the set changelessness that came from years of silence and solitude. [13]
- I cannot believe that the anchorites up yonder are peculiarly pleasing to the Lord because they live in solitude. [10]
- Scenery as always: stretch upon stretch of almost unbroken forest, on both sides of the river; soundless solitude. [5]
- It did seem strange enough to see a town again after what appeared to us such a long acquaintance with deep, still, almost lifeless and houseless solitude! [5]
- We wondered how so large a party came to be traveling at such a time and in such a solitude. [5]
Short sentences using solitude
- Was solitude becoming unendurable? [10]
- And he enjoyed his solitude. [4]
- Society and Solitude, 250. [6]
- Solitude, sought, 135. [6]
- Solitude. [5]
Sentences containing solitude two or more times
- But the solitude of the one is as cheerful and fascinating as the solitude of the other is dismal and repellant. [5]
- It is solitude, for birds and squirrels on the shore and fishes in the water are all the creatures that are near to make it otherwise, but it is not the sort of solitude to make one dreary. [5]
- Silence and solitude brood over Tahoe; and silence and solitude brood also over this lake of Genessaret. [5]
More example sentences with the word solitude in them
- It is peace you want, my mother, peace and solitude, in which the soul goes to sleep. [11]
- With Ursel she would be protected from the terrors of solitude, for, besides the old woman's voice, a man's tones also reached her through the open window. [10]
- There were few with whose nature he had not become familiar in the darkness and solitude that once surrounded him. [10]
- The thoughts which were in her mind so completely absorbed her that she now studiously sought the solitude which she had formerly shunned like a misfortune. [10]
- All her sympathies were excited by the thought of this forlorn stranger in his solitude, but she felt the impossibility of giving any complete expression to them. [6]
- She stopped up,--it was very tempting,--late and later, striving to beguile the lonely night with some employment, till her weak eyes failed to read or to sew, and could only weep in solitude over the dead that were not. [14]
- Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
- Now that he was dead, it would be proved in what way he had remembered the son whom, in his solitude, he had learned to love, what life path John had been assigned by his father. [10]
- I said it was a relief to me to see two real men, but I had no reason to complain of solitude thereafter till daybreak. [4]
- They were still wandering up and down, with fewer people about them, but with the same sense of solitude in their own breasts, and the same indifference from all around. [12]
- After all, depend upon it, it is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community, than to perish of inaction in a stagnant solitude take this truth into consideration whenever you get tired of work and bustle. [14]
- Heloise and I, under pretext of study, gave ourselves up wholly to love, and the solitude that love seeks our studies procured for us. [5]
- After the last two days spent in solitude and unusual circumstances, Pierre was in a state bordering on insanity. [2]
- In the deep twilight of that forest solitude four desperate rascals--Burgess, Sullivan, Levy, and Kelley--ambushed themselves beside the mountain-trail to murder and rob four travelers--Kempthorne, Mathieu, Dudley, and De Pontius, the latter a New Yorker. [5]
- It was hard to people this solitude with rushing columns of cavalry, and stir its torpid pulses with the shouts of victors, the shrieks of the wounded, and the flash of banner and steel above the surging billows of war. [5]
- Tranquillity had come to him, and the joy of solitude, and interest in all the wild creatures and crannies of this incomparable valley--and love. [13]
- Unconscious of all these inquiries and fictions, Maurice Kirkwood lived on in his inoffensive and unexplained solitude, and seemed likely to remain an unsolved enigma. [6]
- The breaking of their solitude, though by a well-meaning friend, had not only dispelled all its dream and much of its charm, but had instilled a canker of fear. [13]
- Yet she dreaded the solitude which she was approaching, for she now perceived how foolishly she had acted, and with what sinful recklessness she had perhaps forfeited the happiness of her life on this luckless evening. [10]
- But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with special force. [2]
- Shortly after leaving the small village of Welden, we entered upon that tremendous prairie solitude that stretches its leagues on leagues of houseless dreariness far away toward the jubilee Settlements. [5]
- Forty-five years ago the site now occupied by the City of Ballarat was a sylvan solitude as quiet as Eden and as lovely. [5]
- Now and then, the silence of the house, the solitude of the room, has pressed on me with a weight I found it difficult to bear, and recollection has not failed to be as alert, poignant, obtrusive, as other feelings were languid. [14]
- Walking ahead of the procession, which gets slowly down the rugged path, I lose sight of my companions, and have the solitude, the sun on the rocks, the glistening sea, all to myself. [4]
- The solitude of the Place Vendome was something oppressive; I felt, as I trod its lonely sidewalk, as if I were wandering through Tadmor in the Desert. [6]
- In five minutes the dead solitude and silence of the place were no more, and a begging, screeching, shouting mob were struggling about the horses' feet and blocking the way. [5]
- I went into the country, but could not bear solitude, yet could not endure society. [4]
- The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on Pierre. [2]
- When you reach the capital, first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do not resume your former way of life. [2]
- Being engaged in the adjustment of some accounts--an occupation to which the silence and solitude of his retreat were very favourable--he had not strayed from his den for two whole days. [12]
- It was odd that the vanished boat, three days lost to sight in that vast solitude, should appear again. [5]
- They got their supper and a nap, and about midnight we sallied out through a solitude so wholly vacant and complete that it quite overpassed the required conditions. [5]
- Furthermore, while the summers were beautiful on this high table land, the winters were long and dreary in the enforced solitude of a thinly settled region. [4]
- Cruelly tormented by such thoughts as these, she dragged herself up and felt her way out into the air and wind, for she could no longer hold out in the gloomy solitude and fearful darkness. [10]
- Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. [5]
- They could suffer solitude, inactivity, and the horrors of a silence that no sound ever disturbed, but they could not bear the thought of being utterly forgotten by the world. [5]
- The hermit endures solitude, hunger, cold, and manifold perils, to content his autocrat, who prefers these things, and prayer and contemplation, to money or to any show or luxury that money can buy. [5]
- Paaker, accustomed to solitude, became absorbed in thought, forgetting everything that surrounded him; even the widow herself, who had sunk on to a couch, and was observing him in silence. [10]
- Never was solemn solitude turned into teeming life quicker. [5]
- Yet in this solitude his love for Nature awoke. [10]
- My loathing of solitude grew extreme; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant. [14]
- Otherwise, all was solitude and a Sabbath stillness. [5]
- This great hummocked, sloping plain, ridged and seamed, was all about us, without cheer or relaxation of grim solitude. [4]
- This secluded and silent solitude this clean, soft air and this enchanting view of Florence, the great valley and the snow-mountains that frame it are the right conditions for work. [5]
- The old man shrugged his shoulders with regretful annoyance, and in the solitude of his own room he muttered to himself: "Oh, that woman! [10]
- There in Moscow she was deprived of her greatest pleasures--talks with the pilgrims and the solitude which refreshed her at Bald Hills--and she had none of the advantages and pleasures of city life. [2]
- She fears she shall now, in her dreary solitude, become a 'stern, harsh, selfish woman. [14]
- It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. [5]
- And there I sat in my solitude and dreamed such wondrous dreams! [6]
- And how glad Sappho will be, when the little creatures come and enliven her solitude! [10]
- The solitude, he said, was rather dismal at first, but several other of the guests fell in, in the course of the evening, and they had, on the whole, a pleasant night of it. [4]
- When Berenike had rested in solitude for some little time she recalled Melissa, and took as much care of her young guest as though she were her lost darling, restored to her after a brief absence. [10]
- It was a relief to breakfast alone, or at least to sip her coffee in solitude. [9]
- So, rested and refreshed, we fell into line and filed away over the barren mountains of Judea, and along rocky ridges and through sterile gorges, where eternal silence and solitude reigned. [5]
- There was a reaction that sunk me to the earth; the deadly silence, solitude, desolation, were awful; the craving for companionship, the hopelessness of relief, were what I should dread to feel again. [14]
- It had become perfectly dark in her rooms, and the solitude and silence there oppressed her like a hundredweight burden. [10]
- It drowsed in peace in the deep privacy of a hilly and woodsy solitude where news from the world hardly ever came to disturb its dreams, and was infinitely content. [5]
- Day after day passed in solitude, and he heard nothing but the sound of the tempest, sweeping before it the new- fallen snow. [5]
- A land given over to the cayote and the raven--which is but another name for desolation and utter solitude. [5]
- Sometimes they played out the toll across a bridge or ferry, and once exhibited by particular desire at a turnpike, where the collector, being drunk in his solitude, paid down a shilling to have it to himself. [12]
- He saw an Oriental conscious of his power, whose heart was bitter, and whose soul, in its solitude, revolted and longed for action. [11]
- He recognizes the organic necessity of solitude. [6]
- I should think one would hardly care to shine if its light wasted itself in the monstrous solitude of the sky. [6]
- My sufferings drew on my flesh, my blood, and my spirits, and to this was added that disease inaction, the corrosion of solitude, and the fever of suspense and uncertainty as to Alixe and Juste Duvarney. [11]
- Here was the old peace, the old joy of solitude among the healing trees. [11]
- They were ignorant of the joys of solitude, which her aunt and her saint had taught her to know. [10]
- In this home of the cliff-dwellers there were peace and quiet and solitude, and another thing, wondrous as the golden morning shaft of sunlight, that he dared not ponder over long enough to understand. [13]
- In the solitude of the camp he wound himself about my life, and roused an emotion for him false to duty. [11]
- During the hours of solitude, suffering, and partial delirium he spent after he was wounded, the more deeply he penetrated into the new principle of eternal love revealed to him, the more he unconsciously detached himself from earthly life. [2]
- As Phillips says of Napoleon, the Nebraska act is grand, gloomy and peculiar, wrapped in the solitude of its own originality, without a model and without a shadow upon the earth. [7]
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter, where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. [6]
- In the solitude of her own room--the room above the hallway, from which she had gone to be captured by Bucklaw--she had misgivings. [11]
- Besides, the presence of her companion relieved her from the terrors with which the darkness and the solitude had tortured her. [10]
- In the solitude of garden-labor, one gets into a sort of communion with the vegetable life, which makes the old mythology possible. [4]
- After 20 months of bed-ridden solitude and bodily misery she all of a sudden ceases to be a pallid shrunken shadow, and looks bright and young and pretty. [5]
- But we found nothing but solitude, ashes and a heart-breaking silence. [5]
- I saw it not; I knew it not; and yet how infinitely beautiful were the imaginations of my solitude! [6]
- But this would not fully account for the practice of it in solitude. [4]
- Often she would not cease her entreaties and representations, and when she even complained that she was dying of solitude and weariness, his veins swelled with wrath, and then she was frightened, fled to her room and wept. [10]
- Lectures on the Natural History of the Intellect.--Publication of "Society and Solitude. [6]
- Well, 'tis probably my own fault by sticking ever to my solitude. [6]
- After two thousand miles of watery solitude the vision was a welcome one. [5]
- The leech assures me that this will pass away, but until the chaos within merges into endurable order there is nothing better for me than solitude and rest, rest, rest. [10]
- In solitude a man generally listens to the first voice, but in society to the second. [2]
- It was a lovely region, woodsy, balmy, delicious, and had once been populous, long years before, but now the people had vanished and the charming paradise was a solitude. [5]
- The anchor of love, which moored their ship to the solid earth, had been tested in the solitude of the Serpent Island. [10]
- The front windows looked out over a far-reaching spread of green glades and valleys, and tumbled hills clothed with forests--a noble solitude unvexed by the fussy world. [5]
- The place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs, to solitude and silence. [5]
- Sometimes I feel lonely enough in this lofty solitude. [5]
- She is more like Miss ---- than any one in her ways--if you can fancy Miss ---- to have gone through suffering enough to have taken out every spark of merriment, and to be shy and silent from the habit of extreme, intense solitude. [14]
- But many were left to die in agony in the solitude. [9]
- Besides, those who knew Barine and her husband were curious to learn how two persons accustomed to the life of a great capital had endured for months such complete solitude. [10]
- Its solitude and isolation are oppressive circumstances, yet I do not wish for any friends to stay with me; I could not do with any one--not even you--to share the sadness of the house; it would rack me intolerably. [14]
- I suppose it is as true that a woodsman would like to "pass in his chips,"--the figure seems to be inevitable, struck down by illness and exposure, in the forest solitude, with heaven in sight and a tree-root for his pillow. [4]
- To be stationed in the solitude of this wilderness was not a punishment, but a misfortune; and the commander of the army therefore provided that the same troops should never remain long in the desert. [10]
- Lies at rest in the silence and solitude of his room for hours; mustn't read, mustn't smoke. [5]
- Otherwise we moved in the midst of solitude, silence and desolation. [5]
- Whoever prayed thus in solitude had a soul yearning for the loftiest things. [10]
- I shall feel, in my still solitude, as the Ancient Mariner felt when the seraph band gathered before him: "'No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! [6]
- We see this in his dislike of solitude, and in his wish for society beyond that of his own family. [1]
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