He was a weather-beaten, iron man, of the solitudes of nature, who had wandered away from his home in New England, and from civilization, into that limitless wilderness.

When the bell was done ringing, and all these busy little bees swarmed into their hive, there was a solitude in the place.

Therefore, Sir Fidelis, do thou take the horse and what thou wilt beside and leave me here, for fain am I to end my days within these solitudes with no eye to see me moresave only the eye of God!"

And now after six years of hell with her husband and one of mourning in solitude for her love that was lost, she was coming back to life again ... at last!

Through broad glades deep-hid within the wild; by shady alleyway and leafy track they held their march south and by east, a close, well-ordered company striding long and free and waking the solitudes to a blithe babblement of laughing echoes.

The poet parted from his friend at Zea, (Ceos): after spending some time in solitude on the little island, he returned to Athens, and there renewed acquaintance with his school friend, the Marquis of Sligo, who after a few days accompanied him to Corinth.

The vastness of the forest and depths of the solitude by which he was surrounded, made its impress on his mind.

He had a genuine love of solitude as an alterative; but he could not subsist without society, and, Shelley tells us, wherever he went, became the nucleus of it.

Not that I have any animosity against the good creatures that are so anxious to drive away the harpy Solitude from me.

And none shall ever, without thee, Me in the dance or revel see; Nor to the concert will I roam, But stay in solitude at home.

Vine, an unemotional man, felt with a curious strength the charm of this isolation on the housetop, this tranquillity, so much more suggestive of solitude than anything which could be realized within the walls of a room.

"All this belongs to us," she told him, indicating with one movement of her arm the boundless solitudes about them.

The sense of solitude under this aggressive and tremendous delusion was agony, hourly death to my soul.

Why should I go on and seek further amazement, while from the lowest to the highest I can read not one of the mystic figures of the solitude around me?

And you will walk in solitude among them.

But when the Dean mused in solitude over the execution of his plan, it assumed at once a more grand and a darker complexion.

As spring approached, however, the captain began to make his preparations for the coming campaign, in which he was to be accompanied by his wife; Mrs. Willoughby, a mild, affectionate, true-hearted New York woman, having decided not to let her husband pass another summer in that solitude without feeling the cheering influence of her presence.

In vain did a heart formed for all the charities of the wedded state, endeavour to supply the refusal of nature, by the adoption of a son; in vain did gratitude endeavour to deceive his heart, by caresses which any other would have thought to be the natural effusions of filial sensibility, of filial piety and affection; that heart incessantly perceived a solitude within itself.

Now she had a hundred eager questions; she saw the shining splendour of the solitudes through King's eyes; she turned to him with full confidence for the name of a flower, the habit of a bird, even though the latter, unseen among the trees, had only announced himself by a half-dozen enraptured notes.

" The Pompadour Private Hotel, like most establishments of its class in Bayswater, was a place of peace and of comparative solitude during the greater part of the day.

On the 31st of January the cutter departed, and Eyre, Baxter, and three native boys, one of whom had come by the vessel on her last trip, were left alone to face the eight hundred miles of desert solitude before them.

A solemn solitude like this would, to my thinking, be much more likely to lower your spirits.

The mountain had an imposing air of deep solitude amid the wildest natural magnificence.

Two marches of Chopin, and the death-march of Siegfried, the haunting suggestion of a soul's preparation for departure in Schubert's Unfinished; the Death of Aase, the Pilgrim's Chorus, one of Mozart's requiems, and that Napoleonic funèbre from the Eroicathese, with others, grouped themselves into an unearthly archipelagotowering cliffs of glorious gloom, white birds silently sweeping the gray solitudes above the breakers....

His clear, bold, and thoroughly executive mind planned a magnificent scheme of commercial enterprise, which, having its centre of operations at Guaymas, should ramify through the golden wastes that stretch in silence and solitude along the tortuous banks of the Rio San José.