It lives a solitary life, and does not even congregate with its own species for the purpose of migration, but travels alone.
They feed on insects, and lead a solitary life on the mountains, only descending into the plains with the early frosts of winter.
They live a solitary life, except during the pairing season.
They are dull, shy birds, leading a solitary life, except at the breeding season.
But he allowed no indulgence with regard to the essential points of a solitary life, silence, poverty, and the denial of self-will.
When he was grown up, by the direction of St. Servanus, he retired to a place called Glasghu, where he led a solitary life in great abstinence, till the clergy and people earnestly demanded him for their bishop.
Whether the Religious Life of Those Who Live in Community Is More Perfect Than That of Those Who Lead a Solitary Life?
Eliseus, leading a solitary life, as it were, lest worldly employment should be a hindrance to the gift of prophecy.
Objection 1: It would seem that the religious life of those who live in community is more perfect than that of those who lead a solitary life.
But it is not becoming to all; since some religious lead a solitary life, and have no superior whom they obey.
He has grown morose since he has led a solitary life, and if he answers questions at all, it is in monosyllables.
I in fact became a stockman, and lived a solitary life, with no one to speak to unless it was to those who brought me a few necessary articles once a month, and then departed to supply other stations.
There are in India, as well as in Africa, certain old bull elephants that lead a solitary life, and that are scarcely ever seen in company with the herds.
Again, some species are gregarious, and herd together in vast flocks; while others are found only in small droves, or families, and not a few species lead what is termed a solitary life.
Though living a solitary life in the seclusion of the wilderness, this bear was again routed out before spring.
Most of the time he leads a solitary life; he rarely exchanges ideas or information with other bears.
This may help to give contentment to solitary life in home territory.
How a Man ought to manage himself that leads a Solitary Life So are his Logicks and Physicks.
This man leading a solitary life in the island of that great lake from which the river Derwent flows at its beginning,(757) was wont to visit him every year, and to receive from him the teaching of everlasting salvation.
Whether Christ Should Have Associated with Men, or Led a Solitary Life?
Concerning the first there are four points of inquiry: (1) Whether Christ should have led a solitary life, or have associated with men?
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ should not have associated with men, but should have led a solitary life.
Therefore it seems that Christ should have led a solitary life.
A very subdued mood of thought and feeling, I think, creeps gradually over a man living such a solitary life.
And by a solitary life I do not mean a life in a remote district of country with hardly a neighbour near, but with your house well filled and noisy with, children's voices.
It would seem, however, that the Bishop's conversation made this retirement very agreeable to Petrarch; for it inspired him with the idea of writing a "Treatise on a Solitary Life.
The Emperor differed from me totally as to the benefits of a solitary life.
At Vaucluse I conceived the first idea of giving an epitome of the Lives of Illustrious Men, and there I wrote my Treatise on a Solitary Life, as well as that on religious retirement.
I was becoming wonderfully accustomed to my solitary life.
A solitary life would be infinitely better, I thought, than the existence I was doomed to live on board.
But these songs, so the chronicle goes on to say, were composed by a young priest who was afflicted with leprosy and lived a forlorn, solitary life, secluded from all the world.
A strange instance of abandonment of the world for a solitary life is given in the history of Henry Welby, the Hermit of Grub Street, who died in 1638, at the age of eighty-four.
Asal, being of a contemplative and meditative disposition, affected retirement from the world and a solitary life as the best means to attain to happiness and salvation.
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