Which preposition to use with lonely
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.
I felt very lonely without Harrington, and I soon wished for a change of scene again.
"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.
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
He goes his own way always, tricky and furtive and lonelier than any other human being I have ever known.
" "I am not afraid of work, Mrs. Makepeace, and I can never be lonely with Jesus Christ.
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.
"I'm feeling lonely to-night, so I" he smiled"yielded to the impulse to ask you to come in, Naylor.
My voice remains, like a blast that roars lonely on a sea-surrounded rock, after the winds are laid.
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.
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.
But the man was not the more lonely of the two.
So utterly alone and lonely among such uncongenial surroundings with people uncouth and totally foreign to his tastes.
" "YetO BenedictI did doubt herplied her with scornful tongue and drave her lonely from me!"
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.
Lonely beyond comparison, beyond the suggestion of language, was that silent human in their midst this autumn day.
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.
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.
"I shall not be lonely until to-night.