There was a kind of desolateness in our life, though we did not understand it at the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference
The desolateness of the place overawed my young heart. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
It most nearly produces the sense of desolateness and dreariness of any portion of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
Despite all the honors and blandishments of her position, the old feeling of desolateness came upon her. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850] Reference
Of all those among whom she had lived in cold desolateness for so many years, one only had got near her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
There is a uniformity in the barren desolateness of this country, which wearies one more than I am able to express. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
Even now I shudder at the recollection of the desolateness of my agony when I knew I had looked on her for the last time. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
There was something in their wild cawing, in the desolateness of the fields, in the rush of the cold river, that suited his mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
It arose in one of her moments of great desolateness. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time] Reference
The desolateness of my future life spread out before me. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
A desolateness round me, stamping guilt on every thought. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.] Reference
Why does not Dorothea give the real reason for her desolateness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
The chill desolateness of that room had been too much for poor little. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
There had been a flavour of desolateness and abandonment in all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume I.] Reference
The chill desolateness of that room had been too much for poor little Fleda. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume I] Reference
The desolateness of the poor girls had perhaps been greater than their grief. From Wordnik.com. [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference
And the silent despairing desolateness of it all sunk down into my very soul. From Wordnik.com. [In the Sargasso Sea A Novel] Reference
Without father or mother or sisters or brothers desolateness of spirit fell upon him. From Wordnik.com. [My Robin] Reference
Artificial groves surrounded each homestead, relieving the desolateness of the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Wayside Courtships] Reference
Even the very desolateness of the establishment had something in it that hit my fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
It was like all mountain funerals, but for an air of desolateness even deeper than usual. From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
Mariana, in her desolateness, was still waiting for the coming of some one; and so was Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mackenzie] Reference
But, oh! the agony, oh! the desolateness, to be cut off from the sweet guerdon of immediate release!. From Wordnik.com. [Purgatory] Reference
It is to be doubted whether any spot of earth can, in desolateness, furnish a parallel to this group. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
She felt vaguely miserable -- was troubled with shapeless apprehensions, with a sense of desolateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
But on this occasion there came upon her a feeling of desolateness as she thought of her present condition. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Tressel] Reference
She knew well the desolateness of his life; his father's aversion from him, and its inevitable consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
Conversation dropped again; Gayton became more and more strongly impressed with the desolateness that came over. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories] Reference
Artificial groves surrounded each homestead, and these relieved, to some degree, the desolateness of the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference
Late in life Mr. Browning commented on this period of his literary career as a time of "prolonged desolateness.". From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
The fire was unlit, the bowls of roses were faded; and sudden, childish tears filled her eyes at the desolateness. From Wordnik.com. [Amabel Channice] Reference
The plain looked bleak and barren, and the cold which our travellers now felt added to the desolateness of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
"Which art in heaven --" but heaven was so far away and looked so cruelly serene to her in her desolateness and danger!. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Montana] Reference
I never, on any other occasion, so felt the desolateness of my condition as when the cry of my boy, -- 'Home, home, home!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
Already the leaves had fallen, and there was, in the aspect of nature, a desolateness that mirrored itself in the feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference
The half-closed eyes seemed to be gazing over the vast wintry plain, lying in the brown desolateness of a February evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
If there was silence and desolateness outside, there was within the deserted place a stillness like the unresponse of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
What is there in this sound that suggests the tenderness of spring, the despair of a summer night, the desolateness of young love?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
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