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adverb

Alone adv. Solely; simply; exclusively.

adjective

Alone adj.

Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; applied to a person or thing. "Alone on a wide, wide sea." "It is not good that the man should be alone."

Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. "Man shall not live by bread alone." "The citizens alone should be at the expense."

Sole; only; exclusive. (R.) "God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being."

Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.

To let alone or To leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.

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"Alone" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hyde was at that moment in the Belvedere Club, singing the Marseillaise, and listening to a very inflammatory speech from the French Minister. But a couple of hours later, Arenta's "wonder" would have touched the truth. He was then alone, and very ill satisfied; for, after some ...

— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr

... a small firelit room With yellow candles burning straight, And glowing pictures in the gloom, And kindly books that hold me late. Of things like these I love to think When I can never be alone: Then some one says, "Another drink?"— And turns my ...

— The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon • Siegfried Sassoon

... h'isted danger signals when women heave in sight—and agreed that 'twas kind of poky bein' all alone. Then they talked about the weather, and about the price of coal, and about the new plush coat Cap'n Jabez Bailey's wife had just got, and how folks didn't see how she could afford it with Jabez out of work, and ...

— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln

... of this threatening attitude of the governor, Husbands was acquitted on every charge, and Fanning was found guilty on six separate indictments. There was also a verdict given against three Regulators. This was the decision of the jury alone. That of the judges showed a different spirit. They punished Fanning by fining him one penny on each charge, while the Regulators were each sentenced to fifty pounds fine and six months' imprisonment. To support this one-sided justice Tryon threatened the Regulators with fire and sword, ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... conjectures that no less than 50,000 perished within a year, all of whom were buried in Walter Manny's cemetery, near the Charterhouse. Another chronicler states that 200 were buried there alone between February and April, 1349.—Avesbury (Rolls ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

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