solitaries
- plural of solitary.
Example Sentences
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All the Arnauld family more or less owned his influence; and it was his teaching mainly that peopled Port Royal with the Solitaries who have made it so illustrious.
From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
And now the Solitaries are in the city.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave
Allied to the Manichæan heresy were the Priscillians, the Saccophori, the Solitaries, and many others; and, in addition, the Messalians or Euchites, the Luciferians, the Origenists, the Antidicomarianites, and the Collyridians.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood
Everything done in the world that is loved and remembered—every life lived with beauty and productiveness to the many—has come from the Solitaries.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington
Solitaries, “recluses,” are met with again and again in these old records, who more than once became Abbots of Iona itself.
From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles
