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Example sentences for "sitting alone"

  • Clarissa, sitting alone in an oriel at the end of the drawing-room, watched them with weary eyes and a dull load at her heart, wondering about them perpetually, with a painful wonder.

  • She had meditated and debated and puzzled herself all through the day's voyage, sitting alone on the windy deck, brooding over her troubles, while Jane kept young Lovel amused and happy below.

  • Sitting alone in her attic, her hands crossed before her, questions intruded upon her.

  • Thus Victoria had reached her last stage when, sitting alone in her room, she once more faced the emptiness where the ghosts of her dead past paced like caged beasts and the wraith of the day's work rattled its chains.

  • Now and then one of these would be sitting alone, reading unexpected papers such as the Times, borrowed from the office.

  • I am sitting alone in my fire-lit room; But, no!

  • I'm sitting alone in my pictured room -- But, no!

  • I'm sitting alone in my silent room This long December night, Watching the fire-flame fill the gloom With many a picture bright.

  • Worthington, sitting alone in the library of his mansion, heard it, and had no need to send for Mr. Flint to ask what it was, or who it was had fired the Third Estate.

  • Sitting alone in the summer-house over the river.

  • Worthington happened to be sitting alone in the office of the Truro Railroad at the capital, there came a knock at the door, and Mr. Bijah Bixby entered.

  • Till then, sitting alone, she could indulge in a mental debate.

  • In the second place, no judge or magistrate, sitting alone, could interrogate an accused person judicially or sit in judgment upon his legal rights.

  • We have seen in Part II of this volume that the Hebrew system of courts and judges provided no single magistrates who, sitting alone, could adjudicate causes.

  • From the room his eyes traveled to Graham, sitting alone, uninterested, dull and somewhat flushed.

  • Self-reliant, frivolous Audrey, sitting alone in the church she had so casually attended--surely that was one of the gains of war.

  • Buckham, sitting alone in his west window and looking toward the sunset, Buckham had his memories.

  • Sir Thomas, sitting alone in his chamber, could feel it.

  • But, as he thought of it, sitting alone on the eve of the girl's coming, he was very uneasy.

  • The morning afterwards Sir Thomas was sitting alone in his room absolutely wretched.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after dinner; another city; but they shall not; carry through; first place; fortnight since; found convenient; her death; hour before; know full; leave their; little surprized; little wistfully; once went; scrofulous disease; season well; second degree; sitting alone; sitting down; sitting here; sitting position; sitting posture; sitting room; square leagues; yards east; you don