Citations:lonely
English citations of lonely
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- 1920, David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus, London: Ballantine, published 1972, →ISBN, page 28:
- The road, very wild and lonely, ran for the greater part of the way near the edge of rather lofty cliffs, within sight of the North Sea.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
- They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a door at the back of the house. It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.