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Example sentences for "solitudes"

Lexicographically close words:
solitariness; solitarius; solitary; solito; solitude; solitum; solius; soljers; soll; sollen
  1. Lil Artha, too, would be sure to want to make more than one trip across country, and spend a few hours casting in the almost virgin waters in the solitudes where sportsmen had possibly seldom invaded.

  2. It was amongst these solemn solitudes that the voice was heard from heaven saying, “This is my beloved Son: hear Him.

  3. Reaching the bitter, stagnant, poisonous waters of the Dead Sea, its desolate solitudes become the haunts of busy life.

  4. Charmed with meeting a fellow countryman in the midst of those vast solitudes so distant from that France he never hoped to see again, he had attached himself closely to Valentine, to whom he vowed a deep and sincere affection.

  5. Standing within the great solitudes of Thunder Bay, Fort William became as celebrated in the annals of the North-West Company, as York or Albany had been in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  6. It was an empire that Governor Simpson established in the solitudes of Rupert's Land.

  7. Surrounded by the gigantic things of his own creation he was impressive, but here in the solitudes he took on even more suggestive characteristics.

  8. There was no sound but the twitter of sleepy birds and the honk of a startled heron that winged its flight to solitudes still more remote.

  9. When we stopped to change horses, I closed my eyes upon the dull prospect, and was transported immediately to those Grecian solitudes which Theocritus so enchantingly describes.

  10. These glistening fowls, like their brethren described in Anson's voyages, as animating the profound solitudes of the island of Tinian, appeared to have no master.

  11. Whilst I remained absorbed in the contemplation of this wonder, an awful voice seemed to break the nocturnal silence, declaring their dreary solitudes thy future abode, O Bruno!

  12. There was a good deal of the pagan about Eileen, for, though she always went to church, and tried to be earnest and attentive, it seemed so much easier to her to worship out in the open air among the upland solitudes of the mountain.

  13. And so real and intense to her in these solitudes was the consciousness of an All-pervading God-presence, that fear of any kind was impossible, and she was less lonely than under any other conditions.

  14. A few minutes later she was pulsing up the mountain with a free, eager step that not only proclaimed her an experienced climber, but bespoke a deep delight in thus climbing to the upland solitudes alone.

  15. As the white man's footprints had advanced, the game had retreated to the deeper solitudes of the wilderness.

  16. Whilst contemplating these grand scenes, we feel little regret that the solitudes of the New World are not embellished with the monuments of antiquity.

  17. And when he came to the end he said: "His lordship, the chairman, has said something about the good effects of the solitudes of Nature on a man's character.

  18. And so it happened that the dust-covered train was rolling across the arid solitudes at the edge of the great alkali desert with our party of friends on board.

  19. As if by instinct they all drew rein as the solitudes closed in about them.

  20. It peoples the solitudes and humanises the waste places.

  21. Their solitudes were peopled by the dreams of all the generations that had passed by them or dwelt amongst them.

  22. Then slowly he turned upon his heel until he had faced every point of the compass, taking in the mighty distances within the circle of these mountain sentinels, with the magnificent and inspiring solitudes around on every hand.

  23. For these men the Normans were no match in the solitudes which were familiar to them, and they soon learnt to have a semi-friendliness with them, and to court relationships with the hill-men, all of which decidedly made for peace.

  24. I think it richer and grander in these leafy solitudes than anything I have seen; or else it is because it fits my taste so wondrously.

  25. Instead of the 'confused noise' of the battle of the warrior, we have the silence of the dawn, and the noiseless falling of the dew amid the solitudes of the wildernesses, or the recesses of the mountains.

  26. These lovely phases of Eskdale scenery are denied to the summer visitor, but there are few who would wish to have the riverside solitudes rudely broken into by the passing of boatloads of holiday-makers.

  27. No railway has penetrated the solitudes of Swaledale, and, as far as one may look into the future in such matters, there seems every possibility of this loneliest and grandest of the Yorkshire dales retaining its isolation in this respect.

  28. Certain palms affect the open savanna, others seek the solitudes of the forest, while still others are most frequently found midway between these two--that is, on the belt of land that separates forest from plain.

  29. They will go to enkindle the pure flame of love in the breast of the savage, at the same time teaching him the arts of peace in the immense solitudes which are fertilized by the Arauca, and the Meta and the Casanare and the torrential Upia.

  30. His youth had caught the vision of the night mist of her, the lonely fields of her eyes, the shadow dreams toward whose solitudes she seemed to be flying.

  31. Their faces, tranquil and lighted by the snow, offered solitudes to each other.

  32. Here, too, they intended to locate laymen to open farms, and extract from the idle earth the means of feeding themselves, the Indians, and the wayworn white man from the burnt solitudes of the mountains.

  33. Man makes a very insignificant figure in the vast solitudes of the Amazon.

  34. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.

  35. From the moment in which he yields to his passions the beasts fly from him as they would do from an ordinary mortal; there is then no other resource for him but to leave the solitudes to live among men in towns.

  36. Eric was still too weak to rise to his feet, so he remained kneeling, scanning the solitudes with hopeless bewilderment.

  37. But when, old and bent, I came to these solitudes her face alone was always with me.

  38. From whence the child came, whose it was, how it had been lost here amongst these drear solitudes Eric could not get it to relate.

  39. In the centre had been set a large emerald the colour of a deep forest pool, transparent and dark, evoking a feeling of rest amongst glorious solitudes where the foot of man but seldom passes.

  40. And, however stern the face of his life's fortune might become, his sterner will and diligence found in her solitudes her choicest treasures.

  41. It is almost overwhelmingly sad to realize how almost all his movements while president were within the sorrow-shadowed walls and the hidden solitudes of his official home.

  42. He had her now conveyed, therefore, to a mansion which he possessed in one of the mountain solitudes in the neighbourhood of Granada; a lonely, but beautiful retreat.

  43. They stood upon the shore like new created men; On barren solitudes of sand they stood, The conquered sea behind, the unconquered wilderness before.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.