Then followed the awful years of lonesomeness for me, made worse by the always-present knowledge that I should have been the one to shoot those blasts and not your father.
She knows you too well to believe you will seek her, although we all were to die of lonesomeness and sorrow.
And he liked East Wellmouth, bareness and bleakness and lonesomeness and all.
The hammering of the infrequent woodpecker, the call of the lonely bird, the drumming of the solitary partridge,--all these sounds do but emphasize the lonesomeness of nature.
There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesomeness in our situation.
When we think of it, it is an awful lonesomeness in this animated and moving crowd.
He could himself see that the lonesomeness was dissipated, as she seated him in a comfortable chair by the fire, and then stood a moment looking at him, as if studying his comfort.
And how much of the lonesomeness of life comes from the failure to do it!
And yet I should not like to say that there is not a tender lonesomeness in love that can get comfort out of a night-bird in a cloud, if there be such a thing.
When you come to my time of life and realize that you have had a different kind of lonesomeness for years and years, you'll begin to think ordinary homesickness wasn't in it.
What with lonesomeness for her brother and anger at the mere thought of anyone suspecting him, she gave way to a June storm.
Sisters, I must say that a feeling of lonesomeness fell upon me after he went; his conversation had been so scientific and interesting that I felt the loss.
To pass by houses in which thousands and thousands are sleeping, is like wandering through the lonesomeness of a graveyard.
It seems to me as I look back at it that every time I got fairly desperate through lonesomeness or pure fright I went and dug a snow tunnel.
And this lonesomeness of which she had been telling him, this dread sickness that fell upon a man in those solitudes, and drained away his courage and hope--must he experience it, like a disease of adolescence from which few escape?
And there would be no more straining of the heart in lonesomeness such as Joan had borne, and no more discontent to be away.
Dad Frazer says Earl was crazy from thelonesomeness and killing Matt Hall.
When the lonesomeness takes a hold of a feller that way something pops in his head after a while; then he either puts a bullet through his heart or settles down and gits fat.
The comfort of this thought would drive the lonesomeness away.
He pushed on, now and again crossing the broad trail left by bands of sheep counting two or three thousand, feeling the lonesomeness of the unpeopled land softened by these domestic signs.
But insane as she was, racked by the lonesomeness to be away from that unkindly land, Hertha Carlson remained woman enough to set a barrier up that Reid, sneak that he was, could not cross.
A man should have a woman; he goes crazy of the lonesomeness on the sheep range without a woman.
Maybe I'd get the lonesomeness if I was to go away.
So hope came to lift him and assure him, just when he felt the somber cloud of the lonesomeness beginning to engulf his soul.
Well, a man couldn't get the lonesomeness around him, anyhow.
More desolate than a derelict on the calm surface of the trackless ocean Lazette lay, its huddled buildings dingy with the dust of a continuing dry season, squatting in their dismal lonesomeness in the shimmering, blinding sun.
I ain't so choked up with lonesomeness like I was.
If it were not for Mr. Gretzinger's and Charlie's thoughtfulness, I'd have died of lonesomeness long before this.
A dash of passion on my part, and lonesomeness and the belief I should have wealth on her side--there's the salad.
The devil a bit of lonesomeness there was in it then.
As a matter of fact, I was going over to Jim Larson's to hang out for the rest of the winter and get away from the lonesomeness of the hills.
Beyond that he worked and worked, and tried to crowd the lonesomeness out of his days and the hunger from his dreams, with complete bone-weariness.
Lonesomeness is one of the worst parts of the feeling of being lost.
For a minute or two he sat down and howled from sheer lonesomeness and discouragement.
There was no lonesomeness that night coming home, Gogarty, though a curlew might have felt a bit.
But there are days when religion fails us, when we lack courage, lonesomeness being our national failing.
V The Great Storm Now, as I have said, we came at last in safety to the open sea, and so for a time had some degree of peace; though it was long ere we threw off all of the terror which the Land of Lonesomeness had cast over our hearts.
I The Land of Lonesomeness Now we had been five days in the boats, and in all this time made no discovering of land.
And thus a while passed, and the evening began to come down upon the lonesomeness of the weed-continent.
You see, I taken the cure for lonesomeness to-night.
And I breasted strangely against the Air Clog, and stept forward across the Circle, into the lonesomeness of the Night Land.
Yet, presently I shook free of my melancholy and lonesomeness and rose up out of the moss-bushes, and went onward.
And surely this thought did come very keen to my Reason, as I did fumble, each time of mine eating, there in the everlasting night and lonesomeness of the Great Slope.
And this I do tell unto you; that thereby may you have some knowledge of the strangeness and the bitter loneliness of that place; which, in verity, did seem the expressing of all the lonesomeness of my wanderings.
Yet, in verity, oft had she callen unto me, until that her heart did grow sick with the desolation of her lonesomeness and her utter forsakeness.
And always, as it doth seem to me, had the ship lain upon the Rock, and lookt quiet and silent over the change and wonder and the lonesomeness of all that Country of Fire and water, for ever.
And afterwards I turned away swiftly, and went on into the Night Land; for it did always make me shaken with lonesomeness to look upon my Great Home.
It is the lonesomeness of feeling that one cannot adapt himself to the unfamiliar background and therefore is sure to attract more or less attention as a curio.
And in what city does this feeling of lonesomeness become most overwhelming?
