How To Use Solitary In A Sentence

Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
It's an hour after sunrise on day three of the photographic safari and a solitary vulture is crossing a flat sky. Times, Sunday Times
Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
So the problem I faced in solitary, where incessant remembering strove for possession of me, was the problem of forgetting. Chapter 6

This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
But, more likely, he has decided it is less of a PR risk to leave a journalist eating a solitary crab pasty in the drizzle than to be trapped alone with her and - God forbid - a tongue-loosening bottle of wine.
Adult male elephants are generally solitary or associate with other bulls in loose associations while females live in families.
In the former, the flowers are monecious or perfect, consisting of imbricated solitary bracts. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
Around 6,000 were jailed for their beliefs, some spending months in solitary confinement. The Sun
On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.
Wasps and bees can be classified as solitary or social depending on whether they live alone or in colonies.
The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
You'll remember that Caillois was of the opinion that most solitary games were agonic, played with the imagination of a community of similarly situated players. WoW v. MDY: Copyright, EULAs, and Game Rules
Christian's works are secretive yet allusive, related yet solitary and, above all, tactile and handmade.
The last pack remembered was killed about thirty-five years ago; and within these ten years one solitary greyhen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
The order Strepsiptera are obligate endoparasitic insects that are known to parasitize seven insect orders, including solitary and social Hymenoptera.
They lapped against the outspread hands of a solitary girl, whose dusky hair rose and fell with the water.
He served a year in prison - including eight months in solitary confinement.
His jaw dropped, and I felt ashamed of my answer, for who was I to so speak to a Brother, even if he be a solitary?
In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
All plants of O. parryi var. parryi sampled were solitary and all plants were shorter than one meter.
This afternoon, whilst I was chatting to an elderly couple who wanted directions to somewhere, my eyes wandered to the car park verge and espied a single solitary daffodil blooming in the late winter sun.
A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle. Country diary: New Forest
A mate who doesn't need your help may prove aloof and solitary.
Does he get punished, does he ever get in the solitary?
This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity The Pontiff Is In...
But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields. Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
And, indeed, so solitary and remote is this ancient edifice, and so simple is the mode of living of the people in this by-corner of Spain, that the appearance of even a sorry calesa might well cause astonishment. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
The arch - criminal was kept solitary confinement.
Ten patches each were allocated to one of four quality classes defined by the number of food items which a solitary forager could obtain during one time step.
On a winter's night in the deserts of northern Mexico one might expect to hear the chilling cries of coyotes or solitary wolf baying at the moon.
Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods.
He touched her lightly under the chin with a solitary finger, a common exhibition of affection she had noticed, and the look in his eyes made Sara blink back tears of happiness.
Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
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.
A solitary disgruntled staff officer accompanied Lohengrin back to his hotel, asking him what he did want, receiving no reply. LOHENGRIN
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Everything is in my book, like every single solitary thing that has happened to me in my life, I put out there.
They might dwell upon the fact that you were so much together, and that you had such opportunities -- mark me, Reginald, _opportunities_ -- for tampering with the one solitary life which stood between you and fortune. Run to Earth A Novel
The castle rises in solitary splendor on the fringe of the desert.
A solitary leatherjacket was spotted on the deck, and it relished biting into my finger, which was cut on some of the sharp metal deeper in the ship.
Another legend of Taoism said Zhao Gongming originally came from Zhongnan Mountain and lived a remote and solitary life to practise his skills.
Whom those resemble that are morose, unsociable, and unconversable, and affect a melancholy retirement; they are like these solitary creatures that take delight in desolations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He trains on his own, often a solitary figure with nothing but a support car behind him, and goes to bed hungry to keep down his weight.
The episode includes one of the funniest gags of the entire series - that was unaired even in this episode's solitary airing on ABC.
Its defendants praised the reformatory emphasis of Pentonville, its generally softer punishment regime, its system of solitary confinement, and its emphasis on prisoners' self-development.
Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree. Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I wouldnt trade it: I can intuit things you can't, enjoy things that would bore you crosseyed, exult in solitary pursuits that might derange another man, convince you of things you'd never believe, teach and explain things to you you think youd never understand. Aspergers
The fruit of his excursion into the Pawnee country, on the waters of the Arkansas, a region untraversed by white men, except solitary trappers, was “A Tour on the Prairies,” a sort of romance of reality, which remains today as good a description as we have of hunting adventure on the plains. Washington Irving
It's generally thought that shyness goes hand in hand with introversion, but many introverts simply prefer solitary to social activities.
Much to my dismay I am the bearer of bad tidings: Paramount has made the decision not to include even a single solitary supplement on this disc.
Ben left his horse tethered to the low-hanging branches of a slender pine and walked the short distance to the solitary grave.
Something similar happens with solitary waves in the atmosphere and you sometimes feel them as clear air turbulence onboard aircraft. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days.
The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
I asked myself where my mother could be, whether she'd also been able to withstand the poison, her lungs adapt to this solitary inclemency and the dearth of oxygen.
a solitary instance of cowardice
Underneath my skin resided a solitary soul who could turn on and off her brightness when need be. French Word-A-Day:
“Dearest wife and daughter,” returned the Emperor, “I have hitherto spared you the burden of a painful secret, which I have locked in my own bosom, at whatever expense of solitary sorrow and unimparted anxiety. Count Robert of Paris
Originally the term monastery designated, both in the East and in the West, the dwelling either of a solitary or of a community; while caenobium, congregatio, fraternitas, asceterion, etc. were applied solely to the houses of communities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
But secret video of Milosevic being marched in handcuffs, head bowed, to his solitary cell spoke more eloquently: he no longer has the power to instill fear and exert total control over the nation he misruled for more than a decade.
He is so dangerous he has served all but four of his 34 years in prison in solitary confinement. The Sun
Rheas were considered to be solitary when no other rheas were within a radius of 100 m, whereas they were considered to be part of a group if they were within 50 m from one another.
The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation. Richard Geldard: In This Other America
Thankfully this solitary poor moment is but one in a huge eight-minute orchestration - one of the shorter tracks on the album - that flits from section to section.
a solitary retreat
One of Renee's eyebrows twitched and she began to tap a solitary fingernail onto the table.
The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
Realism and myth, lyrical memoir and contemporary reality, combine in the highly individual texture of his prose, which expresses the heart-searchings of a solitary man with a restless social conscience.
Think back to something you did on your own recently - perhaps an invigorating run or a peaceful moment of solitary reflection.
Especially a scenario made all the more bothersome by the strange imposition of the exclusive use of a solitary word.
There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
_gold_, senor, that is, with the solitary exception of a strong wooden box (which, even after so long an interment, offered considerable resistance to my efforts to open it), containing an assortment of what I took to be pebbles of different kinds, but which I afterwards found were unpolished gems. For Treasure Bound
On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.
Sometimes she rehearsed in her mind means of escape from the murderer who lurks always just within the consciousness of the solitary.
I nod to Jeff as he picks up the solitary envelope in my outbox, correspondence to a client asking them to kindly provide a new telephone number.
The manner of Croatia's solitary goal will no doubt be pored over on video replays. Times, Sunday Times
Pacific waterleaf is a rhizomatous perennial with fleshy roots and a solitary stem that arises from 20-80 cm.
Calm and motionless, wholly focused on the surveillance of those below, the two men watched from their solitary position of concealment.
Laid out before you, you have 73 different types of fruit - a succulent, juicy example of every variety you can think of - but not one single, solitary apple.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou
His mother said he blew up because he's been in solitary confinement and has been repeatedly denied bail - and the stress is getting to him.
The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Artists in many fields collaborate, as painters did in the Renaissance, before there was any guff about the artist as transcendent, solitary genius.
Yet this handful of churchmen is habituated to a life of devotion, worship, and communal living that gives them a depth of character that is lacking in their secular counterparts, most of whom live in a solitary sufficiency.
She has been held in solitary confinement, and without charge. Times, Sunday Times
‘That one over there,’ he said, nodding at a solitary figure in the distance which tripped and stumbled along the edge of the main road.
Last night he was being held in solitary confinement in Douglas jail.
The genus Pulsatilla includes about 30 species, many of which are valued for their finely-dissected leaves, solitary bell-shaped flowers, and plumed seed heads.
They have now got a solitary point from their last eight games and they are a club in crisis. Times, Sunday Times
I still find this extremely disconcerting so I went in search of a solitary place to relax.
Sadly though, giant pandas are solitary animals and need to live apart. The Sun
By producing their first clean sheet in ten outings and netting the game's solitary goal, they bagged all three points on this occasion.
QUESTION: The Associated Press reports that in reaction to what they termed your stern rebuke of Jerry Thacker, a group called Human Rights Campaign said that while this was a positive development, the Bush administration's, quote, "Obsessive focus on abstinence as the solitary mechanism to prevent the transmission of HIV is not based on sound science. CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2003
The few remaining humans have gathered into cannibalistic 'bloodcults' or survive as solitary scavengers. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the street-sellers, whose lives were solitary, the mudlarks formed organised communities.
An image floated up of her table in the flat, with a solitary place-setting graced with a slice of pre-packaged pizza. AN OLDER WOMAN
I did have one solitary experience with Ms. Reynolds before our relationship started to grow and my life got a huge kick-start in its already progressing downward spiral.
Under Norwegian law, solitary confinement can only be imposed for four weeks at a time, but the prosecution is free ask for an extension when the term runs out. Reuters: Press Release
The solitary messenger rode east from the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia through the hill country along the Alpheus River. Alexander the Great
Both by the solitary nature of her visionary experience and by the ecclesiastical condemnation, Joan was an outsider.
The solitary denizen of the plains -- the little minivet A Bird Calendar for Northern India
The room she was in was small to say the least, with a bed, a washstand, a chair and table, and a solitary trunk against the wall.
I think most people in witchcraft or paganism practise in a solitary way,’ she said.
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
In captivity the Syrian Hamster's solitary instinct prevails and once mature it will not normally accept the company of another hamster.
Like the rat-rat-tat of a quick-firing gun was the appreciative volley of recognition from the solitary applauder. Thoroughbreds
Females had the opportunity to pair with solitary males but did not do so.
The criminals who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low - contemptible cowards whose targets are the frail and solitary.
He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
A solitary viola plucks a lonely, soft F sharp.
That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory. Chapter 10
But they will head into that crunch clash having taken only a solitary point from their last three games. The Sun
He demonstrates how fiercely technical a craft climbing is, solitary, dangerous and exacting.
What do you want for one solitary million quid? Times, Sunday Times
Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey.
In 1926, he withdrew himself in to a solitary room and cut himself from the outer world.
But then, upon reflection, it dawned on me that everyone who practices the Craft is, at their very core, an eclectic solitary.
The flowers are large and relatively solitary among the felty foliage, and they are wonderful over a foil of silver stachys or acaena. Stunning salvias
The proposed buildings may be nasty and brutish, as your leader says, but they are not solitary. Times, Sunday Times
Typically they live as solitary itinerants wandering across the land.
Writing is a solitary business so getting to perform to audiences around the country is fun. The Sun
A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone.
Too much emphasis is placed on solitary activities such as playing video games or watching television.
Spikes solitary; spikelets 1-flowered; first glume of the sessile spikelet pectinate 21. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
About two hours before daybreak you will hear the red monkey moaning as though in deep distress; the houtou, a solitary bird, and only found in the thickest recesses of the forest, distinctly articulates "houtou, houtou," in a low and plaintive tone an hour before sunrise; the maam whistles about the same hour; the hannaquoi, pataca and maroudi announce his near approach to the eastern horizon, and the parrots and paroquets confirm his arrival there. Wanderings in South America
In addition, the Constitution protects not only the sermons of a solitary activist, standing on a corner soapbox.
Together with the others, it succeeded to a period of eremitism of solitary anchorites whose dwellings honeycombed the warm slopes that confront the Old Calabria
They cannot build cities on the sand of the desert, and the small patches of pasture and palm groves, kept fresh and green by solitary springs and called "oases," are too far apart, too distant from permanently peopled regions to admit of comfortable settlement. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
Latino inmates with limited English skills were punished for failing to understand commands in English by being put in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day or keeping prisoners locked down in their jail pods for as long as 72 hours without a trip to the canteen area or making nonlegal phone calls. Joe Arpaio, Arizona Sheriff, Violated Civil Rights According To Justice Department Report
A solitary wasp appearing from what looked like an old nail hole in a plank of wood. Times, Sunday Times
Because I'm in no position to go inferring general conclusions about chimneys based on the solitary one I happen to be nestled up against — whyever it is I'm nestled up against it. Rooftop
I got that job and since then have lived a silent, sedentary, solitary, private life in Knaresborough; not at all a discontented one. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
We was living then in a solitary place, but among the beautifullest trees, and with the roses David Copperfield
Several miles further on a solitary upstanding column of rock represented an opossum man who rested here, looked about the country, and left spirit children behind him; a low range of remarkably white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white ant eggs thrown here in the _wingara_ [146] by the Munga-munga women as they passed across the country. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
Christmas Island is remote and solitary, and its gentle beauty can change within seconds when the north-westerly monsoons lash the island.
The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess.
Microscopically, the fungus produces solitary oval to dumbbell-shaped conidia on short, unbranched conidiophores lateral to septate hyphae.
Microsatellite instability was assessed using the 5-marker panel proposed by the National Cancer Institute and/or the pentaplex of mononucleotide repeats, as described elsewhere Comparison of methylation degree between multiple and solitary CRC patients was performed qualitatively where methylation positivity was set as PMR ≥ 4, as previously validated PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
His childhood was repressed and solitary.
The solitary candle burning on the table threw a faint light on her face, yet it was clear that she was very unhappy.
She was clearly one of those solitary temperaments whose earliest companions were things, whose inscapes spoke to her soul.
I was so wrapped up in confusion and suspicion that I forgot to wonder why Jacquiline would want me to meet her privately in a solitary room.
A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone.
Metastatic lesions are generally identified years after the initial resection, are solitary or few in number, are surgically resectable, and have histologic features identical to the primary tumor.
a solitary mounter of the staircase
When I'm out running on my lunch hour, not once have I watched in awe as a fellow runner sprints toward me sporting a solitary track shoe.
-- While some princes may be embruing their hands in the blood of their subjects, this man is offering up his prayers to God to preserve all mankind: -- While some ministers are sending forth fleets and armies to wreak their own private vengeance on a brave and uncorrupted people, this solitary man is feeding, from his own scanty allowance, the birds of the air. A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2)
The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.
It is more difficult to say which extreme is worst, among _an equal number of individuals_; but probably the city; for in the country, vice is oftener solitary, and less frequently social; while in the city it is not only _social_ but also _solitary_. The Young Man's Guide
Yes, the solitary, crepuscular mammal known to Native Americans as the pekan, pequam or wejack, which closely resembles a European polecat. A Night of Furversion
The camera then zooms in to a solitary bus surrounded by police.
The solitary stranger was mounted upon an able horse, fit for military service, and for the great weight which he had to carry, and his rider occupied his demipique, or war-saddle, with an air that showed it was his familiar seat. A Legend of Montrose
Having no life, I’d done research the evening before, learned that the term autoerotic refers to any solitary sexual activity in which a prop, device, or apparatus is used to enhance sexual stimulation. Spider Bones
A solitary grey whale has been spotted in the Mediterranean thousands of miles from its home waters in the Pacific, stunning marine biologists.
It remains a solitary recorded example of coffee-table trip-hop fans erupting in a livid wave of anger - the musical equivalent of assistant librarians rioting.
From this encounter, Paley assures us, our solitary walker could be sure of one thing: a man - a thinking being - has been this way.
But the groups had drawn together into one, and were watching a child who, solitary upon the grass-plot, paced through a measure before them 'high and disposedly.' Brother Copas
She spent more than three months in solitary confinement before international pressure forced her release. Times, Sunday Times
It all hinged on the fact that Boro didn't have more to show for that sparkling first half display other than one solitary goal scored in the 10th minute which was credited by most to an Alfreton defender!
The Blackfoot is fifty paces in breadth, and is bordered by dense thickets of willow - near the mouth there is a large solitary mound or hill, called the "Blackfoot Butte. Life in the Rocky Mountains
a man of a solitary disposition
The cub painted a high-light picture of his poor little room, its oil-stove and the one chair, and of the death's-head tramp who kept him company and who looked as if he had just emerged from twenty years of solitary confinement in some fortress dungeon. Chapter 39
Fishing a groundbait feeder with corn on peg eight he netted five small carp and a solitary chub.
Mary Mara makes the volatile Ruth a mainspring of precarious tension, capable of a solitary three-way argument over a peanut-butter sandwich.
Sometimes a solitary corvid would cry a single rising note that hung in the air, and it sounded to me like a question thrown against the sky. Kook
Common species of shorebirds, such as yellowlegs, dowitchers, black-bellied plovers and ‘peep,’ are often joined by pectoral, stilt and solitary sandpipers.
Unlike most shorebirds, Solitary Sandpipers do not nest on the ground, but find an old, abandoned, songbird nest in a tree.
Social groups were composed largely of males, but some males remained solitary year-round and most females were asocial.
For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell. The Old Curiosity Shop
Far worse than the controlled, steady drinker is the solitary drinker, and it was this that Daylight was developing into. Chapter XXI
Nests become social if a second foundress successfully usurps the nest with the original foundress remaining in the nest as a nonreproductive guard (if she leaves, the nest remains solitary).
Mrs. Eddy, with an envious and admiring eye upon the solitary and rivalless and world-shadowing majesty of St. Peter's, reveals in her Christian Science
This project is a sculptural work that stemmed from my interest in sci-fi, technology, and the impulse for relaxation or solitary meditation.
One of the two male birds living in the gardens was recently found dead and a peahen and a chick, which were in the gardens last year, have moved away, leaving the solitary male.
Once you've finished this wonderful book you're haunted by the melancholy tone of this solitary, meditative figure.
A solitary viola plucks a lonely, soft F sharp.
Here -- and more especially in the study of those spontaneous solitary manifestations which I call auto-erotic -- I have attempted to clear the ground, and to indicate the main lines along which the progress of our knowledge in these fields may best be attained. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
A solitary fern-gatherer was filling his basket with specimens.
The outside light had faded and the crammed interior was a dim jumble of dark shapes under the solitary bulb.
The name of this tree in Hebrew is founded on the fact that it is the first to blossom; though not strictly white, its blossoms may be called whitish: the whitish blossoms, solitary while all is bare around, just yield the image required. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
Long-term studies of solitary cats such as tigers, pumas, leopards, cheetahs and lynx have shown that male cubs usually leave the area where they were born and wander in search of a territory.
The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
Joe's journey, configured as an immersion into the blues, the heart of jazz, manifests itself as a depression, solitary and torpid, a metaphorical cave within which he has interred himself.
I observed to - day a curious monstrosity of an Umbelliferous plant, in which the rays of the umbellules are soldered together; forming an involucre round the immersed central solitary female, the male flowers forming the extreme teeth of the involucre. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Other buds on the same tree reverted to the purple parent, with its solitary small flowers, its dense shrublike branches and very small leaves. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
I could not help thinking of the whimsicalness of chance, which had seen fit to make me the solitary companion of a woman of whose existence I knew nothing a few hours before. The French Immortals Series — Complete
When in solitary confinement last year, a police interrogator got rough with him. Times, Sunday Times
Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds. Masters of the Hunt
Solitary in nature, the trunkfish blows water out of its mouth to expose prey such as mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and sponges.
Bvt when these maner of solitary speaches and recitals of rebuke, vttered by the rurall gods out of bushes and briers, seemed not to the finer heads sufficiently perswasiue, nor so popular as if it were reduced into action of many persons, or by many voyces liuely represented to the eare and eye, so as a man might thinke it were euen now a doing. The Arte of English Poesie
It is something that we will never stop being fascinated in, until one day we all become hermits and live in solitary caves.

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