How To Use Lonesome In A Sentence
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There had been a good deal of joking, both Spanish and English, among the passengers; I had found particularly cheering the richness of a certain machinist’s trousers of bright golden corduroy; but as the shades of night began to embrown the scene our spirits fell; and at the cry of a lonesome bird, far off where the sunset had been, they followed the sun in its sudden drop.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Higgins' major themes are travel and lonesomeness.
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Another timid miscreant, just before he is sent off to prison, has so far stepped out of reality and into legend that he asks to be known hereafter as ‘The Lonesome Kid’.
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Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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There are few sights more lonesome than a yacht out of water.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Russian travels for about six months a year and this solitary pursuit would leave anyone lonesome, explaining the accompaniment of his wife on his travels across the world.
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So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly.
The Ranch at the Wolverine
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Her little liking for Royall himself he has destroyed by making, in his "lonesomeness," a single false step toward her.
Some Stories of the Month
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And this time, he likely has a better understanding than ever of the oft-quoted Mark Twain maxim: "Be good and you will be lonesome.
Solo act Shani Davis alone in front with unusual approach
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I had to take care of ten little ragamuffins all by my lonesome.
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Can imagine a hollowness and lonesome library, perhaps a computer, be it is all.
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So for a week he floated with the current of casual dissipation and then, caught for an hour by a refluent eddy of lonesomeness, ” four parts of the pentamerous clover-leaf were paired lovers, ” he penned a missive which might have changed much in his future career: He sent to Christian Schwan a formal proposal for the hand of Margarete.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Brand New, DaisyFive kids from Long Island have a many appropriate Modest Mouse manuscript since The Lonesome Crowded West, a sawing, slurring, snarling thing, full of sufficient rootless fretwork as good as perplexed melodies to give Isaac Brock pause.
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spent a lonesome hour in the bar
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The wind continued to carry its load of lonesome song " a lowing, an unceasing monophony that drew a cold white chalk line down Ethan's spine.
Icerigger
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Did perhaps their hearts despond, because lonesomeness had swallowed me like a whale?
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The majority of tears that were shed on first day at school day in Kerry on Monday flowed from the eyes of lonesome mums rather than wide-eyed children who were eagerly looking forward to the great new adventure.
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a sea voyage, and a little scouring about in what you call the lonesome places, would do me such good!
Hide and Seek
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Beginning near Dawson City, this lonesome strip of loose gravel stretches 461 miles northeast, ending just shy of the Arctic Ocean in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
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It's a curious kind of lonesomeness; but, all right, I will.
A Horse's Tale
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The man who sings with the kind of lonesomeness associated with Hank Williams has cultivated a major following in the western region over the past decade.
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Mat Maneri plays some lonesome violin, letting strings weep in blank, tragic beauty, plucking and wailing and sounding like a dying dog.
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What model revolver did Gus carry in lonesome Dove?
What model revolver did Gus carry in lonesome Dove?
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Memory is heel, lonesome is dent, I a person coexistence.
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Believe it or not she began to get used to the lonesomeness.
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A few small oil lamps were hung from rafters in strategic spots, casting lonesome pools of illumination to steal the gloom from the darkest corners.
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I think sometimes it would have been fun to have had a proper dad, less intense and less lonesome.
Times, Sunday Times
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For his love alone does she remain in that contemptible town, suffering the lonesomeness of teenage cruelty.
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So for a week he floated with the current of casual dissipation and then, caught for an hour by a refluent eddy of lonesomeness, -- four parts of the pentamerous clover-leaf were paired lovers, -- he penned a missive which might have changed much in his future career: He sent to Christian Schwan a formal proposal for the hand of
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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lonesome when her husband is away
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Their places now grew grass and goosefoot, the lonesome soil hardened and rain cracked.
Fire The Sky
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Her lonesomeness was a fertile swamp from which poltergeists of the past would rise and rot her mind.
Pistol
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Bawl your eyes out at La Table d'Aranda (tabledaranda. fr), a well-rated restaurant on Avenue Marne in Biarritz (setting for The Green Ray) which has a "not ideal" location, so you stand a chance of getting in if you're on your lonesome.
Film-inspired holidays: The Journey of self-discovery
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At the end of the third year I waxed aweary of this lonesome mourning, and one day I happened to enter the cenotaph when vexed and angry with some matter which had thwarted me, and suddenly I heard her say: — O my lord, I never hear thee vouch safe a single word to me!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Trees drew in their boughs and leaves, revealing the bare, lonesome path.
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Though the Protestant Christianity is lonesome in the Tibetan ethnic group, the course of the propagation reflected the cross swords of two world view.
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And I have to admit I immediately grew lonesome for lovely Penny, the Helen of our poetry world, and could only think about those lovely nipples of hers during the rest of the beer-sotted evening, how they wobbled when she moved.
The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 14
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In a lonesome inlet, a sheldrake, lost from the flock, sitting on the water, rocking silently;
American Feuillage
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There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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We are lonesome here, and it is difficult for us to remember how much you love us.
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His friends are all on vacation, leaving him bored and lonesome.
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And I told him how lonesome I was without anybody, not _anybody_; and I told about Charlie Smith and Paul Mayhew and Mr. Claude Livingstone, and how Aunt Jane wouldn't let me have them, either, even if I was standing where the brook and river meet.
Mary Marie
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Multiple guitars and vibes unwind a skeletal melody into nothingness while a lonesome organ drones sadly against the silence.
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In this way, it's like you're on the trip with me, an invisible friend that makes the journey less lonesome.
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She only nodded in acknowledgment, a sort of lonesome satisfaction flowing into her eyes.
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I feel so lonesome lef 'behin' -- I tink 'twas bes 'mebbe --
The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems
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Memory is heel, lonesome is dent, I a person coexistence.
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That first time away from home I got lonesome and decided to run away with two friends.
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Memory is heel, lonesome is dent, I a person coexistence.
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There they stand, high lonesome's sweetest harmonizers, singing their hearts out in white suits and pink shirts, backgrounded by flames and the grinning scarlet figure, half-comical, half-terrifying, of a 16-foot-tall plywood Satan.
In and Out of Harmony
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As a posthospital book for her, I recommend Lonesome Dove.
Gitmo Medical Center. | Mind on Fire
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She thought it was so much more lonesome than the pineries.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
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If you really want to make me feel at home, you could come back later, after your folks is asleep, and cuddle up here with me for a bit, so's I'm not so lonesome.
Excerpt: Heaven, Indiana by Jan Maher
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When the old woman's health weakened, Gina had offered to spend her solitary days with another lonesome soul, since she really had nothing better to do anyway.
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Lonesome tells the story of a punch-press operator named Jim and a telephone switchboard operator named Mary who are desperately lonely, and then meet by chance during a holiday at Coney Island.
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I'm gonna sing these blues to ease the bo-weavil's lonesome mind
Ma Rainey Lyrics
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She pulled the door back and forth to make the smoke drift outside, and left it open before going into the kitchen where her dad was sitting at the table, lonesomely puffing away on his cigarette.
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Entirely more disturbing was the fact that in lonesome quarters I had on a number of occasions already encountered members of his chitinous league.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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In his latest collection, Sweet Land Stories, Doctorow hauls this preoccupation out to the high lonesome prairies, conjuring a cast of religious visionaries and orphans on the lam.
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I have told; yet very sweet and clean, as I had known; so that I ween she had stript oft in the lonesome night, and washt her garments in this or that hot spring of the sulphur waters and other matters.
The Night Land
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His unique and keening vocal style was called the ‘high lonesome’, such was the uncanny depth of emotion it carried.
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In the bright gleam of a fresh morning the town looked all the more isolated and lonesome.
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The characters are crooked, almost scribbled, and they make the hand of the artist feel all the more present in the work, as if these were notes from the voyeur to the watched, a hand reaching out to people lost in moments of care and lonesomeness.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » From the Galleries: 2010’s First Openings
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On Friday, TMZ. com published a report claiming Crystal nearly quit the show two weeks ago after succumbing to lonesomeness for her young son back home in Ohio.
Crystal Bowersox Almost Quit “American Idol”
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I turned aside, and there below me in the glen was the lonesome grey church, the porch where I had waited for the coming of the woman in white, the hills encircling the quiet burial-ground, the brook bubbling cold over its stony bed.
The Woman in White
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a lonesome pine
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When a young poet fails to find the words he can moan and wail and lament his wanton muse, gone off and left him bereft and lonesome.
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While they were grappling with these issues the matter was settled for them by the surprising arrival of a counterorder from the Bents, delivered by the taciturn old hunter Lonesome Dick, who seemed put out that he had had to ride so hard on their behalf.
The Berrybender Narratives
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His friends are all on vacation, leaving him bored and lonesome.
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It was a very lonesome place.
Anne of Green Gables
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He was finding the river lonesome.
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For a month or more the lonesome husband "stevedored," wrestling freight on the lighters, then he disappeared.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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It was sunset and leading from her back was a solitary shadow, looking more lonesome than ever.
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Half of What We Know," featuring her breathy vocal over a weepy violin and persistent banjo, opens with "Your lonesomeness I know," words inspired by the song "Moonshiner.
Michael Bialas: Exploring Some Strange Country With Crooked Still, Aoife O'Donovan
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Though he talked constantly while he was with the crew, he often developed what he called lonesome feelings and disappeared for ten days at a time.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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It is a story of passion and lonesomeness which inspires as well as entertains.
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For oft, as I did perceive, had she cried unto me in all that lonesome month, and known no answer; neither that I was making a desperate way unto her; for, indeed, her weakness was great, so that she had no power to throw the Word strongly afar, neither to make plain her spiritual cryings through any mighty space of the æther.
The Night Land
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Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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She thwacked a lonesome pebble into the until now deathly still waters of the picturesque campus lake with a black platform trainer which could have had a brick wedged between sole and tread but at least made her an inch taller.
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They would have shuddered at the dust-windrowed street, the litter of refuse, the dismal lonesomeness, the forlornness, the utter isolation, the desolation.
'Firebrand' Trevison
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My life has always been fairly lonesome, but I don't think I've ever felt more alone than I do at the moment.
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And the noise that it sent out was strange and slow, and it did seem to gruntle gently unto itself in that lonesome hollow, as that it had made a long and quiet grumbling there, through Eternity.
The Night Land
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A fine crowd attended the funeral ceremonies and many were very lonesome as they bade their fond farewells to a man who had been such a part of the community over the decades.
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We put it down to nerves and the fact that she might be feeling lonesome about being away from her family and her boyfriend for a long time.
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He stopped at a lonesome table specializing in dusty Afro Beat records and placed the rare one he sought under the needle of his machine.
Alex Vadukul: An Annual Music Hajj in New York
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Makem's "Lonesome Waters" album and it's written as scutcher.
Give the Woman in the Bed More Porter
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It's just regrettable that it seems to be a rather dangerous business being a lonesome, sensitive, guitar-strumming singer-songwriter.
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There are few sights more lonesome than a yacht out of water.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was left on his lonesome ownsome on the edge of the six-yard box.
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Ach, well, you know, when Annie, the wife, died and left Mary a wee bit of a wain, I was lonesome, and Daniel was always a right heartsome fellow, and I never asked him about going when he came here.
The Drone A Play in Three Acts
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The traveler, on the other hand, is ready to boogie when he or she leaves, but is lonesome and tired on the way home.
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It was a very lonesome place.
Anne of Green Gables
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'lonesomeness' that is looked upon as almost the worst of evils by the
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. Edward Abbey
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Because they only way they could’ve come up with any kind of mathematic thought on their lonesome would be to steal it from the Greeks.
I’m Smarter Than You Just Because I’m Me | Mind on Fire
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Unless he truly was a stalker, he was just a lonesome new kid, desperate for friends.
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Yet quintet's performances, even more than the material, are completely timeless: Mr. Peplowski's tenor saxophone trio reading (with just bass and polyrhythmic drums) of "It's a Lonesome Old Town" (from 1930, probably the newest song in the set) is both breathless and breathy, and as modern as Sonny Rollins , Joe Lovano or any other contempo-tenor you could name.
Music With All the Fixings
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I felt lonesome in the strange land.
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The cover of this book, all by it's lonesome, is enough to give you an idea of how meloncholy and misunderstood Vlad is through this story.
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I've grown so lonesome, thinking of you.
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What model revolver did Gus carry in lonesome Dove? hey everybody im back
204' for varmits
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I think sometimes it would have been fun to have had a proper dad, less intense and less lonesome.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a lonesome land, where amusements are few and the nights long, the power to "fuddle" counts for much.
The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
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McDynamo, a leading contender to win the Eclipse Award as champion steeplechaser, earned the Lonesome Glory Champions Trophy as the leading steeplechase earner of 2005.
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A lonesome farm house on a hilltop sheds its tarred siding.
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Less lettuce would have worked if the lonesome anchovy had been whizzed into the dressing and the bacon crisped up before serving.
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There had been a good deal of joking, both Spanish and English, among the passengers; I had found particularly cheering the richness of a certain machinist's trousers of bright golden corduroy; but as the shades of night began to embrown the scene our spirits fell; and at the cry of a lonesome bird, far off where the sunset had been, they followed the sun in its sudden drop.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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We passed Cabul merchants peddling their dried fruit on shaggy-haired camels; to these succeeded, in more lonesome portions of the road, small groups of Korkas, wretched remnants of one of the autochthonal families of Central India -- even lower in the scale of civilization than the Gónds, among whom they are found; and to these the richly-caparisoned elephants of some wealthy
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
