Example Sentences

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Your presence peering lonelily there Oppresses me so, I can hardly bear     To share the train with you.

From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

"Father, is your wife any better now?" stood out in her later recollection, alone and lonelily startling.

From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

No, Freydis: the boy that loved and deserted you is here,"—he beat upon his breast,—"locked in, imprisoned while time lasts, dying very lonelily.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

Before him lies his son, Within his lone tent, lonelily, The old man sits with eyes that see Through one dim tear—his son!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

And all the time, like an owl on his solitary perch, he had gazed out lonelily, while the other birds of day, too polite to mock him, had merely passed him by.

From Michael by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)