From the turret of a close-creeping monitor came the four-hundred-and-forty-pound bolt of her fifteen-inch gun, crushing the lone foe terribly yet not quite piercing through.

A short lone meeting in the parlor, blest chiefly with humiliation, and this I would regard as a blessing.

It was all over, then; my long lone quest for my mothera quest I had carried on since I was a little, scared, downtrodden child.