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adjective

Lone adj.

Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher. "When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered."

Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. (Archaic) "Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman." "A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear."

Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. " A lone isle." "By a lone well a lonelier column rears."

Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. "Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls."

noun

Lone n. A lane. See Loanin. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Lone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lone" Quotes from Famous Books

... I'm on the inside," he went on impressively. "I know some of those big ones personally. That makes the difference; those fellows don't lose, they skim the cream off of everything. Say, I ought to know—didn't I go in there lone-handed and fight it out with a king of finance? That's the man we're in with—I can't tell you his name, now—he's the one that owns the forty-nine per cent. They're crazy about copper or he'd never have looked at me—there's some big market fight ...

— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge

... active business life together, seldom, if ever, did a Gospel minister make a pastoral visit at their home and go away without carrying with him some little token of the veneration and love there cherished for his holy office and work, or of remembrance of his lone family, so much of the time deprived of his presence, and of many delicacies which he had among his people far away. The "fatted calf," lamb, or fowl would in many places be dressed for his feasting, while the family at home, in some inferior quarters, were ...

— Elizabeth: The Disinherited Daugheter • E. Ben Ez-er

... disaster came to the little home of the strangers. The husband and father died, and Naomi was left with the whole responsibility of the family upon her lone shoulders. Her daughters-in-law had seen her in her joy. They marked her also in her sorrow. They were impressed, no doubt, by her calmness and her strength. She walked with the sure and quiet step of one who felt underneath her and round ...

— Sermons on Biblical Characters • Clovis G. Chappell

... going to hide, and to shelter myself behind an official address, so I ought not to complain; but all the same I do feel lorn and lone. First Kathie torn away to another continent, and now Charmion, who is so wonderfully dear! The next thing will be that Bridget will announce, some fine morning, that she is going to marry the gardener! ...

— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... voice ceases; after the blaze of that light all is dark. There is nothing more remarkable in the whole history of the world than that cessation in an instant, as it were, of the long, august series of divine efforts for Israel. Henceforward there is an awful silence. 'Forsaken Israel wanders lone.' ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

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