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Lonesome   /lˈoʊnsəm/   Listen
adjective
Lonesome  adj.  (compar. lonesomer; superl. lonesomest)  
1.
Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. "Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread."
2.
Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.





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"Lonesome" Quotes from Famous Books



... hospital, or a crowd of roystering students may necessitate his missing a night's sleep in order to argue an irate sheriff into the conviction that they are not robbers and murderers. He has been known to spend many evenings in the rooms of lonesome ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
... visible except the innumerable buffalo and antelope that were constantly crossing our trail. We moved on slowly from day to day without any incident worth recording and arrived at the Arkansas; made the passage and entered the Great American Desert lying beyond, as listless, lonesome, and noiseless as a sleeping sea. Having neglected to carry any water with us, we were obliged to go withot a drop for two days and nights after leaving the river. At last we reached the Cimarron, a cool, sparkling stream, ourselves and ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... dozen of the curious darkeys who stood off and hadn't the honor of the youth's acquaintance. They seemed to feel lonesome. ...
— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper
... get real down once before we got to Indiana. After we left the boat there was a spell of railroad, and then a long stage-ride to Cumberton; and then we had to hire a big wagon and team, so's to get us out to our claim, thirty miles west'ard of Cumberton. I hadn't no time to feel real lonesome now, for all our things hed got to be onpacked, and packed over ag'in in the wagon; some on 'em had to be stored up, so's to come another time. We was two days gettin' to the claim, the roads was so bad,—mostly what they call corduroy, but a good stretch clear mud-holes. By the time we got ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... the waiting-room she was sound asleep on the bench. It delighted him to see that she had taken him at his word and was lying upon his clothes. Cautiously he took a seat on the door-sill. The night was as still as death and as lonesome as the grave. For half an hour he sat gazing upon the tired, pretty face and the lithe young figure of the sleeper. He found himself dreaming, although he was wide awake—never more so. It occurred to him that he would be immensely pleased to hear that Havens's reason for failing her ...
— The Purple Parasol • George Barr McCutcheon


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