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Example sentences for "lonelier"

Lexicographically close words:
lomi; lond; londe; londes; lone; loneliest; loneliness; lonely; lonesome; lonesomeness
  1. The departure of the migrants made the place seem lonelier and, during the depths of winter when snow covers the ground and the birds and animals are few in number, a more dreary spot would be difficult to find.

  2. These animals were introduced to the island about twenty-five years ago, and have gradually withdrawn to the lonelier southern part, though occasionally odd ones are seen about the northern end.

  3. I have been lonelier than you," he said; "I have had nobody.

  4. When there was no fire, it had been lonelier still, and he had found the time hang heavily, on his hands.

  5. Altogether, a quick fire of questions, remarks, and sallies, which Aldous met and parried as best he might, comforting himself all the time by thought of those deeper and lonelier parts of the wood which lay before them.

  6. He was scarcely more than thirty miles from London; yet in this solemn evening glow it would have been hardly possible to find a remoter, lonelier nature than that through which he was passing.

  7. She was lonelier than Kedzie and almost as helpless to amuse herself.

  8. Jim drove his car up to the end of Rhode Island and across to Tiverton; then he left the highway for the lonelier roads.

  9. I'm alone--as always--and lonelier than usual.

  10. Some day they will wake, Fellow Singer, and hunger and want For the Ways to the Lonelier Height!

  11. Then ruddy with life I fare, The fighter who feels no dread, The roamer who knows no bounds, The hunter who makes the world his prey, And shouting and swept with pride, Still mounts to the lonelier height!

  12. Nevertheless, this gentle egotist was unusually serious, and when the child awoke at last, and with a fretful start and vacant eyes pushed his caressing hand away, he felt lonelier than before.

  13. It seemed lonelier to him than the mile-long sweep of Heavy Tree Hill, writhing against the mountain wind and its aeolian song.

  14. The thought of her makes each trip lonelier than the last.

  15. He fills me up with mullygrubs; my hair the backward way he rubs; he makes me lonelier than a hound, on Sunday when the folks ain't round.

  16. He was lonelier than he had ever been in his life.

  17. Descending from the lonelier parts of the hills, it would visit the sheep-walks and kill, as it appeared, for the pure love of killing; in most cases leaving the mangled bodies on the spot.

  18. So the old Roman roads run, grassy and haunted and choked with underbrush, in the lonelier country districts of England.

  19. The farther he went, the lonelier it became and the better he liked it.

  20. Always he sought the lonelier places, shepherd's or camel herder's camps and the smallest villages.

  21. At sea I was lonely, and since I have come into this fortune I have been lonelier still.

  22. Well," he said, "one thing is, it would have been lonelier if we had gone.

  23. This splendor Synge found also in his own Wicklow, a lonelier country than Aran, if loneliness comes from absence of human life.

  24. He suddenly seemed lonelier than he had been.

  25. She took no notice of this letter; but one afternoon she was lonelier than usual, and she went up the hill to her father's grave.

  26. Under certain circumstances I don't know of a lonelier place anywhere on earth than that Grand CaƱon.

  27. It sounded lonelier than a love-sick hippopotamus on the house top.

  28. Before you came to-night, while I lay there getting lonelier every minute, I almost thought I heard them singing it.

  29. It is because I was lonelier than I knew," he said mentally.

  30. There was no lonelier spot in England, nor one which had the right to claim so many ghosts, if ghosts there were.

  31. Perhaps that it is which distresses her, for she will be lonelier here than on earth.

  32. It was little enough for him to do in return for their kindness, and he could see that Melissa's affection for Jack was even greater than his own: and how incomparably lonelier than his life was the life that she must lead!

  33. So is it: we are lonelier than those twain, Though from their vale they ne'er depart again.

  34. The country grew lonelier and drearier as we mounted, and the wind blew colder over the fields blotched with that sort of ground-palm, which lays waste so much land in southern Spain.


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