left alone

Then the doctor went, and John Vavasor was left alone, standing with his back to the dining-room fire.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

Stephen, left alone, raised his head and gazed round him once, then he laid his cheek down on the cold cheek, pressed his lips to the cold lips, and his breast upon the cold breast just over where the bullet had ploughed its way through the flesh and bone.

A Girl of the Klondike Victoria Cross 1910

—This girl must have some demon of her own, —thought he, when left alone, standing with his arms crossed on his breast, and his gaze fixed upon a spot on the floor, where the rays of the moon, entering through a lofty window, traced out a square of pale light, chequered like a draught-board by the massive iron bars, and more minutely divided into smaller compartments by the little panes of glass.

Chapter XXI 1909

_Johnny, left alone, clenches his fists and grinds his teeth, but can find no relief in that way for his rage.

Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903

And the Minister of State, left alone, crouching in front of the crackling, blazing fire, sheltered by the velvety warmth of his luxurious garments, lined on that day by the feverish caress of a lovely May sun, began to shiver anew, to shiver so violently that Felicia's letter, which he held open in his blue fingers and read with amorous zest, trembled with a rustling noise as of silk.

The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

Then the doctor went, and John Vavasor was left alone, standing with his back to the dining-room fire.

Can you forgive her? 1864

Then the doctor went, and John Vavasor was left alone, standing with his back to the dining-room fire.

Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope 1848