Solitude
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Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the
solitude
of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.
She was in love with Leon, and sought
solitude
that she might with the more ease delight in his image.
The noises of the town hardly reached them, and the room seemed small, as if on purpose to hem in their
solitude
more closely.
But Fouque is giving up the thought of marriage, he has told me again and again that
solitude
is making him melancholy.
'He has not yet come to a decision,' he said to his mistress, during a moment of
solitude
in the drawing-room.
One thing astonished Julien: the weeks of
solitude
spent at Verrieres, in M. de Renal's house, had been for him a time of happiness.
The silence, the profound solitude, the coolness of the long aisles, made Julien's musings all the sweeter.
In order to realise them, one must have been condemned to pass whole months without a moment's solitude, and in immediate contact with companions at best tiresome, and mostly intolerable.
I am going to seek
solitude
and rustic peace in the one place in France where they exist, in a fourth-floor apartment, overlooking the Champs-Elysees.
If the five or six flatterers who treated Julien with such fatherly affection had deserted the Hotel de La Mole, the Marquise would have been left to long hours of solitude; and, in the eyes of women of her rank,
solitude
is a dreadful thing: it is the badge of disgrace.
The absolute
solitude
of a traveller's existence strengthened the power of this dark imagination.
She saw quite plainly that she had to contend with the love of
solitude.
Indeed, I am happier by myself than when that lovely girl shares my
solitude
...'The lawyer, a man of rules and formalities, thought him mad, and supposed, with the rest of the public, that it was jealousy that had put the pistol in his hand.
He felt a compelling need of solitude, and how was he to secure it?
When Julien had at length secured solitude, he found himself more crushed and more of a coward than before.
He does not revel in romantic
solitude.
I never see a steam launch but I feel I should like to lure it to a lonely part of the river, and there, in the silence and the solitude, strangle it.
But the glance was unreturned, and Frances unconsciously sighed as she sought the
solitude
of her own apartment.
At this happy age Sarah left the city, and she had brought with her a picture of futurity, faintly impressed, it is true, but which gained durability from her solitude, and in which Wellmere had been placed in the foreground.
As night set in, his illness increased to such a degree, that the dismayed housekeeper sent a truant boy, who had shut up himself with them during the combat, to the Locusts, in quest of a companion to cheer her
solitude.
Leaving him, therefore, endeavoring to conceal his chagrin in the
solitude
of his chamber, the surgeon proceeded to the more grateful task of sitting an hour by the bedside of George Singleton.
Chilling
solitude
is the characteristic of the scenery; nor is the mind at liberty, as in March, to look forward to a renewed vegetation that is soon to check, without improving, the view.
The deliberate, and what to her seemed cold-blooded, project of the officer for the recapture of the fugitives, still rang in her ears, and stimulated her to go on; but the
solitude
into which she must venture, the time, the actual danger of the ascent, and the uncertainty of her finding the hut, or what was still more disheartening, the chance that it might be occupied by unknown tenants, and those of the worst description - urged her to retreat.
The idea of her
solitude
struck on the terrified mind of the affrighted girl, and approaching to the edge of a shelving rock, she bent forward to gaze on the signs of life in the vale, when a ray of keen light dazzled her eyes, and a warm ray diffused itself over her whole frame.
While busied in stealing through the meadows towards the house, the noise of horse approaching startled her, and she felt how much more was to be apprehended from man, in some situations, than from
solitude.
These bare apartments, without furniture, looked frightful in their
solitude
and dilapidation.
And indeed, if the truth is to be told, what I eat in my corner without form or fuss has much more relish for me, even though it be bread and onions, than the turkeys of those other tables where I am forced to chew slowly, drink little, wipe my mouth every minute, and cannot sneeze or cough if I want or do other things that are the privileges of liberty and
solitude.
I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the
solitude
of the fields; in the trees of the mountains I find society, the clear waters of the brooks are my mirrors, and to the trees and waters I make known my thoughts and charms.
Those whom I have inspired with love by letting them see me, I have by words undeceived, and if their longings live on hope—and I have given none to Chrysostom or to any other—it cannot justly be said that the death of any is my doing, for it was rather his own obstinacy than my cruelty that killed him; and if it be made a charge against me that his wishes were honourable, and that therefore I was bound to yield to them, I answer that when on this very spot where now his grave is made he declared to me his purity of purpose, I told him that mine was to live in perpetual solitude, and that the earth alone should enjoy the fruits of my retirement and the spoils of my beauty; and if, after this open avowal, he chose to persist against hope and steer against the wind, what wonder is it that he should sink in the depths of his infatuation?
The night was, as has been said, dark, and they had happened to reach a spot in among some tall trees, whose leaves stirred by a gentle breeze made a low ominous sound; so that, what with the solitude, the place, the darkness, the noise of the water, and the rustling of the leaves, everything inspired awe and dread; more especially as they perceived that the strokes did not cease, nor the wind lull, nor morning approach; to all which might be added their ignorance as to where they were.
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