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Example sentences for "lonely place"

  • The genie appeared, and at the magician's command carried him, together with the palace and the Princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa.

  • For he could not carry his bride through the air, so he took the Shoes of Swiftness, and the Cap of Darkness, and the Sword of Sharpness up to a lonely place in the hills.

  • Little he cared, but left off crying his lamps, and went out of the city gates to a lonely place, where he remained till nightfall, when he pulled out the lamp and rubbed it.

  • The young Indian went into the forest to a lonely place by a river or to the top of a mountain, and prayed with tears to the gods that they would vouchsafe to him what his forefathers had possessed before him.

  • At the end of that time the high priest takes them to a lonely place in the forest, and cuts off a lock of hair from the crown of each of their heads.

  • The cell, like the rest of the house, is raised on piles above the ground, and is lit by a single small window opening on a lonely place, so that the girl is in almost total darkness.

  • There is in a lonely place a translucent lake, it is unknown to the fishermen of these parts; I will take you there one by one, and drop you into it, that you may live there.

  • And once on a time the all-knowing Jimutavahana beheld in a lonely place Mitravasu's maiden sister, who had been his beloved in a former birth.

  • He took him away from the crowd, and outside the town, to a lonely place.

  • So sudden and mighty a change as this made him feel that he must go to some quiet, lonely place, where he could think and pray and find out his Father's will for himself and the work that he was to do.

  • Heaven knows, the world seemed a lonely place to this younger son, who had been educated for the Church, and was fain to content himself with a scanty living in one of the dullest and dampest towns in fenny Lincolnshire.

  • There was a detached cottage, a lonely place enough, between Kemberling and Marchmont Towers, that had been to let for a long time, being very much out of repair, and by no means inviting in appearance.

  • I MET AT EVE I met at eve the Prince of Sleep, His was a still and lovely face, He wandered through a valley steep, Lovely in a lonely place.

  • I met at eve the Prince of Sleep, His was a still and lovely face, He wandered through a valley steep, Lovely in a lonely place.

  • Illustration: Father Damien went out and sat in a lonely place by the sea.

  • You are right,' said the doctor after a pause, and Father Damien went out and sat in a lonely place by the sea.

  • When you've been too much and too long alone in a lonely place, you begin to do queer things and think queer thoughts--provided you have any imagination at all.

  • It was a lonely place for a young woman; but Gerty was a settler's daughter.

  • I am glad, for it is a lonely place--the most lonely place I know.

  • This is a lonely place," he said; "we don't often have a soul staying with us for a month at a time.

  • You know, I am all by myself here now, sir, and a lonely place it is.

  • He should sprinkle upon her the water brought for rinsing his mouth; and when alone with her in a lonely place, or in darkness, he should make love to her, and tell her the true state of his mind without distressing her in any way.

  • I MET AT EVE I met at eve the Prince of Sleep, His was a still and lovely face, He wandered through a valley steep Lovely in a lonely place.

  • FIRST SCENE--A lonely place in the park.

  • The genie appeared, and at the magician's command carried him, together with the palace and the princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa.

  • One day I was coming back from Balsora, whither I had taken a supply of goods, intended for India, and halted at noon in a lonely place, which promised rich pasture for my camels.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lonely place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after much; alcalde mayor; catch sight; cloth boards; considerable importance; detailed account; each coil; ever occur; half knots; inches thick; lonely place; long continued; mail matter; much about; particular country; pursued them; religious mendicant; slender pedicels; small wonder; wife took; will engage; write home