2638 examples of solitude in sentences

Lady Mary, who had had enough of solitude during her long residence in Yorkshire, now in Vienna was determined to enjoy herself and flung herself into all the social gaieties.

Unity N. unity; oneness &c adj.; individuality; solitude &c (seclusion) 893; isolation &c (disjunction) 44; unification &c 48.

And so great a fear of solitude had taken possession of him that he had now yielded to the idea of seeing his son again.

It was a chaos; a blasted landscape, a mouth of hell, with its wild turns, its droppings of blood-colored earth sliding down from every cut, its desolate solitude invaded only by the eagles' flight.

The dread which he had of solitude, the need in which he should perhaps stand of having a sick-nurse, made him very pathetic.

We will go to some solitude to live there in God!" "Be silent!

A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darknessthese are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

And so, day by day, he continued to comfort her solitude until (for some reason which I could never understand and cannot approve)

In what humour constant Socrates did thus, I know not, or how he might be affected, but this would be pernicious to another man; what intricate business might so really possess him, I cannot easily guess; but this is otiosum otium, it is far otherwise with these men, according to Seneca, Omnia nobis mala solitudo persuadet; this solitude undoeth us, pugnat cum vita sociali; 'tis a destructive solitariness.

As the summer days came on, she would see him disappear through the green door of the wood at morning and return by it at evening; but all the day each had been alone, Beatrice alone with a solitude in which was now no longer any Wonder.

I pine in the solitude of sickness, not bad enough to be pitied, and not well enough to be endured.

In Mull we were confined two days by the weather; on the third we got on horseback, and, after a journey, difficult and tedious, over rocks naked, and valleys untracked, through a country of barrenness and solitude, we came, almost in the dark, to the seaside, weary and dejected, having met with nothing but water falling from the mountains that could raise any image of delight.

Company is, in itself, better than solitude, and pleasure better than indolence: "Ex nihilo nihil fit," says the moral, as well as the natural, philosopher.

Did Mrs. Browne make any reply to your comparison of business with solitude, or did you quite down her?

DEAR MADAM,I am sitting down, in no cheerful solitude, to write a narrative, which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will, perhaps, pass over now with a careless glance of frigid indifference.

DEAR MADAM,The wearisome solitude of the long evenings did, indeed, suggest to me the convenience of a club in my neighbourhood, but I have been hindered from attending it by want of breath.

Yesterday we left the solitude of Rika and went to polo at a place about seventeen miles away.

Here were lake and mountain in little, without the snow-peaks and awful inaccessible regions of solitude and peril; homely hills that one might climb, placid English vales in which English poets have lived and died.

In the tumult of business, interest and passion have their genuine effect; but a friendly letter is a calm and deliberate performance in the cool of leisure, in the stillness of solitude, and surely no man sits down by design to depreciate his own character.

Only one child blessed their union; Bernard Le Croix, who grew up sensitive, shy and retiring, with a taste for solitude and literary pursuits.

Prison Solitude.

As Isabel pressed closer to me, I felt, that, although far from agreeable to sojourn in such a place, even with Isabel, this would yet be greatly preferable to solitude.

Not so with Jack Horner: the very incident recorded in the first line lets us into his character; he is evidently a lover of solitude and of solitary contemplation.

It has been said that the man who loves solitude must be either an angel or a demon.

Yet there was one human figure here on the banks of the Seine reassuring in this solitude which was haunted by the shadow of fear.

2638 examples of  solitude  in sentences