In his years of aloneness he had grown into the habit of talking to himself--or with himself--to keep up his courage and sanity.
It was a crisis which was bound to come, and in his aloneness he fought it out.
He was a man who rode alone; his aloneness was the reason for his swiftness.
For the first time he was conscious of his aloneness with this woman.
Illustration: The aloneness of a great forest] Years ago, I, standing at a level crossing, saw her pass.
She wrote in her commonplace book this sentence: "Love is a tune we whistle in the dark of our aloneness to keep up our courage.
And the specter faded, and she no longer heard the sound of rain beating, of rain drizzling, of rain dripping through days and nights of aloneness and despair.
This aloneness puts upon one a great responsibility.
This aloneness of life sometimes becomes very real in consciousness.
He had made of the place a sort of shrine, a green and sweet-flowered tabernacle of memories, and its bird-song and peace in summer and the weird aloneness of it in winter had played their parts in the making of his soul.
To Alan there was tragedy in his aloneness as he stood in the gray of the morning.
This aloneness fell upon them like a thing that had a pulse and was alive.
Here he would seek the aloneness he felt to be imperative.
Now and again he floundered into a puddle or rivulet that flowed seaward across the expanse of shelving shore, but he felt his sense of aloneness amid nature increase at each step gained.
I want to get away from you," I gasped and I felt that I must get out of the aloneness with him.
Charlotte's chatter with father was blown back from me and I was happy in a kind of aloneness I had never felt before.
I positively moaned, as he and I both rose and I put out my hand as if to force him out of thataloneness in which we stood together.
King had gone that way, Gloria stood up, smothered under a sense of aloneness She resented his going; she was on the verge of calling to him; her heart began to beat faster.
The man would go right away; she would not have even him to mitigate the horrible condition of aloneness with Gratton.
Even in their aloneness these two women had not dared to speak until now.
She had made him forget everything but her, and in a few hours had sent into the dust of ruin his cynicism and aloneness of a lifetime.
Living alone had provided ample time for solitude and the perusal of philosophical writings, but that aloneness needed to be buffered by personal interaction.
Aloneness did not parallel loneliness; many times I was very happy that my health allowed me to avoid social involvements, despite the fact that, after too much solitude, interaction with others became increasingly difficult.
