solitary

• Dark, solitary, and untamed, the new scholar assumed the indifference of wounded vanity, despised all pastimes, and found delight either in books or in scornful exasperation of his comrades when compelled to associate with them. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• The most solitary, the most unlearned, God hears, God looks upon, God visits, God blesses, God brings to glory, if he is but "rich in faith." —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
• Confinement was solitary, and various circumstances besides pain and hunger were brought to bear on the imagination. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• Each spikelet is solitary, and articulate at the very base of a rachis, lanceolate, 1-flowered. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• And, indeed, when I climbed one day to the top of a tall iceberg, and looked out in the direction of our solitary island, I could see several cracks from a yard to a hundred yards wide, so that it was very fortunate we escaped from the island when we did The savages now said it was time to be moving, or a crack might come between us and the shore. —  Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner

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