Which preposition to use with lonely

in Occurrences 56%

In the uniform he wore as Minister of Foreign Affairs and at the Berlin Congress, 1878] I felt rather lonely in the big ministry when they had all gone, and I was left with baby.

without Occurrences 26%

I felt very lonely without Harrington, and I soon wished for a change of scene again.

for Occurrences 24%

"They say the old man Grant is nearly a millionaire, and he's getting lonely for her, and is pretty near ready to forgive her and Fred and take them back.

as Occurrences 24%

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

than Occurrences 22%

He goes his own way always, tricky and furtive and lonelier than any other human being I have ever known.

with Occurrences 15%

" "I am not afraid of work, Mrs. Makepeace, and I can never be lonely with Jesus Christ.

at Occurrences 14%

Linnet was lonely at night; she began to feel lonely as dusk came on; and the arrangement of board for one and pleasant companionship for the other, was satisfactory to both.

to Occurrences 12%

"I'm feeling lonely to-night, so I" he smiled"yielded to the impulse to ask you to come in, Naylor.

on Occurrences 9%

My voice remains, like a blast that roars lonely on a sea-surrounded rock, after the winds are laid.

through Occurrences 4%

Mounting his horse, he gives the beast the reins, And wanders lonely through the desert plains; With fearless heart the savage heath explores, Where the wolf prowls, and where the tiger roars, Nor wolf, nor tiger, dare his way oppose; The wildest creatures see, and shun, his NOSE.

by Occurrences 3%

Poor Andy, bound hand and foot, was carried out of the cottage to a lonely by-way, and there he passed his wedding-night roped to the stump of an old tree.

of Occurrences 3%

But the man was not the more lonely of the two.

among Occurrences 2%

So utterly alone and lonely among such uncongenial surroundings with people uncouth and totally foreign to his tastes.

from Occurrences 1%

" "YetO BenedictI did doubt herplied her with scornful tongue and drave her lonely from me!"

after Occurrences 1%

There are indeed, he says (III., 46), plenty of old stories of self-sacrifice, but they are all of the kind where a man risks comfort and life to secure possession of a coveted body for his own enjoyment, or else where he takes his own life because he feels lonely after having failed to secure the desired union.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Lonely beyond comparison, beyond the suggestion of language, was that silent human in their midst this autumn day.

during Occurrences 1%

Then there are "lonely soldiers" in India, envious of their more fortunate comrades in Flanders, and soldiers quite the reverse of lonely during their well-earned leave.

across Occurrences 1%

There races some swift Atalanta, with no apple to fall in her path but some soft and spotted oak-apple from an overhanging tree; there the Phantom, with a crew white and ghostlike in the distance, glimmers in and out behind the headlands, while yonder wherry glides lonely across the smooth expanse.

until Occurrences 1%

"I shall not be lonely until to-night.

Which preposition to use with  lonely