Such was the picture presented by the interior of the hut, when the sound of an approaching horse came suddenly to relieve the solitude of our poor sufferers.
It was solitude and silence, annihilation and despair in the midst of turmoil and clamour.
To think of the countless days of agony, the nights, the years of solitude that have brought her to this,--little Margret!
These women, content to live in solitude forever because they once had loved, could any man understand that?
Through what cold depths ofsolitude her soul breathed faintly mattered little.
The incident also of his birth having taken place in the solitude of a forest of reeds, concealed from everybody's view, led to his being called by the name of Guha.
Having sprung from the seed which had fallen off from Rudra he was named Skanda, and because of his birth in the solitude of a forest of reeds he came to be called by the name of Guha (the secret-born).
The god in time invested Agni's son born in the solitude (of a forest of reeds) with the command of their forces.
Francois looked at the walls and chained dogs, and knew at once that the large numbers in the prison made impossible that solitude in which plans of escape prosper.
He was alone, and felt of a sudden, as never before, the solitude of an uncompanioned life.
Henry's homage, her friends' intrigues, and the whirl of festivities, bade fair to stifle the thoughts which solitude had aroused in her heart.
Coverdale did not remain long in the solitude he desired.
If "alone" means solitude in the Father, it is false in a categorematical sense; but if taken in a syncategorematical sense it can again be understood in several ways.
Therefore the society of angels and of souls does not take away absolute solitude from God; much less does it remove respective solitude, in reference to a predicate.
Although the idea of solitude is excluded by plurality, and the plurality of gods by unity, it does not follow that these terms express this signification alone.
For solitude is not removed by association with anything that is extraneous in nature; thus anyone is said to be alone in a garden, though many plants and animals are with him in the garden.
They were all surprised, and somewhat startled, when their solitude was invaded, just as they were thinking of knocking off work for the day, by a loud rap at the doors of the aerodrome.
It is grand, gloomy, and terrible; a solitude peopled with fantastic ideas; an empire of shadows and of turmoil.
The poet was advised to flee from the ignorant people, to bury himself in the solitude of his own chamber, to dream and to ponder, and to content himself with few readers.
Elsewhere he speaks of silence and solitude as amy des Muses.
Even if it were possible for the mythical man brought up in solitude on a desert island to have a language, it is questionable whether he would use it.
But a normal human life demands a certain proportion of solitude just as much as it demands the companionship of others.
The demand for privacy and solitude becomes acute among people who do a great deal of mental work.
The demand for solitude and privacy is thus fundamentally a physiological demand, like the demand for rest.
To crave solitude is thus not a sign of man's unsociability, but a sign merely that sociability, like any other human tendency, becomes annoying, if too long or too strenuously indulged.
Stuart evoked a touching image of the Self-Improving Porter, hoping one day to be a County Councillor; and stealing away from his soulless burden of trundling, to practise his tables in stillness and solitude upon the props of Euston.
By a law of the association of ideas--contraries come into the mind as often as similarities--and the peace and solitude readily called up the notion of what would most jar with them.
The solitude of their lives peculiarly tended to promote fervor of character.
She often sat for an hour alone, surrendering herself to the luxury of solitude and of undisturbed thought.
Mrs. Beecher Monmouth, in the solitude of her room, smiled slightly.
As the words left his lips on the solitude of the sands, he was conscious of a quick thrill of excitement.
I found the place abandoned to two or three menials, and exhibiting an aspect of solitude and desolation truly appalling.
But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay.
Mr. Hart returned and claimed his fee, reporting that he had hauled the Riddle to the lagoon, where he found Saddles pleasantly whiling away the hours of solitude in the useful occupation of washing his extra shirt and stockings.
The camp was in a desolate place, our only neighbors being the coons, and they enlivened the solitude by their snarling and fighting, having come down to the beach to fish in apparently no amiable mood.
In spite of the solitude I sought, I had selected that city because one of my relations lived there,--M.
The period of solitude had been less irksome than he allowed.
It occurred to him that she might feel some slight embarrassment in the first moments of realising how completely she was cut off from outside things in this solitude of days to be passed in his sole company.
Your aunt will also go to see her—I believe this week is a week of solitude and seclusion with your aunt, but afterwards she will go.
The luxury of solitude for a short space was pleasant to her, and the landlady had known her father.
Such were some of the ordinary comments on the weird form which was seen emerging from 'the Paddock' and moving in solitude towards the hills.
These few moments of solitude afforded him an opportunity to regain his composure, to collect his thoughts scattered by the storm of passion which had swept over his soul, as leaves are scattered by the fierce November gale.
But he did not repair to the Chateau de Sairmeuse; he returned to Montaignac, and passed the remainder of the afternoon in the solitude of his own room.
It was the first moment of freedom and solitude which they had found since Marie-Anne's confession.
She desired a few minutes of solitude to compose her features, to regain her self-possession, if possible, and to conquer the nervous trembling that made her shake like a leaf.
I think if we had been that summer evening even in the solitude of a mountain fastness, an intuitive delicacy would have kept both of us from speaking one word upon the only subject that filled our hearts.
An hour's solitude had restored her to complete consciousness, when a servant knocked on the door and asked whether she had any further occasion for the gondola, which had returned from carrying Captain Vane to the steamer.
Thus she grew up in her adopted family, passing her days in solitude on the lonely hill-tops, where her humble flock grazed.
Once more he retired within the cloister at Carpentras,[106] to hide his face in mourning and prayer, to ponder the torments of his saintly mother, and fix his weeping eyes in solitude on the image of his crucified Lord.
It was not the lonely terror of the sea, nor the great cleansing solitude of the mountains, but something formless, perilous.
It had been strengthened by experience of his father's weakness and encouraged by the clean solitude of the hills.
Did she not know that solitude is the great need of lovers, or realize that Basil had not yet so much as kissed her?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
