Adjective : to feel lonesome. ,a lonesome evening at home. ,a lonesome road. From Dictionary.com.
Now and then the Hermit could hear Pal howling lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Somewhere back in a forgotten arroyo a coyote yapped lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
Somewhere else one shutter clapped lonesomely to and fro in the plains wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
But, then again, most lamentably and lonesomely, can I be all that certain about you?. From Wordnik.com. [Torture: Who Could Care?] Reference
“Do the dogs go home?” said George, who saw one travelling lonesomely along the nearby road. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
Tired, gaunt cattle mooing lonesomely, when the man came about them to dig with his bloody fingers in the sand. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
The abandoned horse nickered lonesomely and then began to graze on tufts of grass, moving slowly to favor his foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
She spent the day lonesomely enough, but when night fell her spirits brightened, and at a quarter of eight she set out. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
A big owl hooted lonesomely among the pines, and soon a pack of yelping coyotes went scampering across the frozen waste. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
I saw you in a shop to-day where lonesomely you sat. From Wordnik.com. [Cross Roads] Reference
A hound bayed lonesomely somewhere in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [To the Last Man] Reference
From under the apple-trees the horses whinnied to him lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories] Reference
A melancholy note came lonesomely through the forest and the twilight. From Wordnik.com. [The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"] Reference
My old acquaintance left this world as lonesomely as he had lived in it. From Wordnik.com. [In Ghostly Japan] Reference
"Hi, there!" in a voice that echoed lonesomely throughout the mountain side. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Louise] Reference
The horse was there, and came trotting lonesomely up to the fence when he saw Jake. From Wordnik.com. [Skyrider] Reference
Gigi presented the tambourine with the few pennies rattling around somewhat lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [John of the Woods] Reference
"And now you are lonesomely miserable, like I am," she rejoined, crossing a restless leg. From Wordnik.com. [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference
In the tunnel beneath the street a trolley-car rumbled and whined and clanked lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [The Brass Bowl] Reference
The old Opp House stood high on the river-bank and gazed lonesomely out into the summer night. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Opp] Reference
Then the storm came and swept through the little street and whined lonesomely around the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
She seemed wrapped in a reverie in which Diana felt lonesomely that she had neither lot nor part. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of the Island] Reference
The Snoodle was awake, and howling lonesomely; but he was soon frisking happily about their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of the Plynck] Reference
But it was a silent, empty town, for this was Sunday morning, and their steps on the brick sidewalk echoed lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [Left Tackle Thayer] Reference
Now the family of three gathered lonesomely close to the hearth when a rare fire was indulged in on stormy winter nights. From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
"Moonlight nights and lonesomely," I answered before I could stop myself, and what happened then was worse than any cyclone. From Wordnik.com. [The Melting of Molly] Reference
But at length drowsiness overcame him, and for the few remaining hours he dreamed lonesomely of an oval face and big, black, velvet eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ne'er-Do-Well] Reference
A self-contained and self-sufficient girl, she now felt lonesomely that it would be a great comfort to talk everything over with somebody. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
After that she cried lonesomely and stared away into that part of the sky where Johnny and his airplane had last been a disappearing speck. From Wordnik.com. [Skyrider] Reference
Lite said no more about it until they reached the house, huddled lonesomely against the barren bluff, its windows staring black into the dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Jean of the Lazy A] Reference
Then they dived into their den; and after sniffing about and whimpering lonesomely for a while, they curled themselves up close together and went to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Wild] Reference
For the cabin of Take-Notice was closed and empty, and the black lamb and the white were nosing unhappily their over-turned pan of mush, and bleating lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Family] Reference
"One only little blossom of earth will he gather, bear it upon his heart, in order henceforth not so lonesomely, not so entirely lonesome, to wander down to rest.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian] Reference
The user logs in to the XMPP-Server, joins the chatroom of his "main team" or, if he does not have a main-team, one that is named after his userid (lonesomely idling away). From Wordnik.com. [Planet Jabber] Reference
The old-fashioned clock, perched upon the high mantel-piece of the low-studded room, ticked away lonesomely, as clocks tick only when somebody is waited for who does not come. From Wordnik.com. [Coupon bonds, and other stories] Reference
A dab of that, a slab of something else, set lonesomely on a separate plate and reckoned a meal -- in courses. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Pipes lonesomely behind the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Riley Farm-Rhymes] Reference
I watched the gulls float lonesomely. From Wordnik.com. [Left Behind] Reference
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