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No, I thought desolately, but I could not say it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
No one was abroad at this nearly midnight hour, and nothing was open except a string of desolately brilliant service stations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
Though the village is only a two-hour drive from Glasgow, a GPS sent me through 33 miles of the desolately beautiful Galloway Forest Park on a single-track road that rattled the nerves. A Critic Sells Books Down by the Seashore 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z
Thirty years ago, the rosarian would have looked desolately to the heavens. Surveying the garden after a soggy summer 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z
I wrote back to the Chandler estate to ask whether its executors might consider my making Marlowe old, alone and desolately marooned in the year 1988. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z
Five hours later, I was staring desolately at Mom’s face when her eyes popped open. Perspective | My mother and the millions of counted-out black people like her are the true heroes of Black History Month 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z
Jagu wails desolately, like a child who is being punished for a transgression that he does not understand. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z
We were walked through suite after suite of cold apartments, desolately splendid with gold and marble, and crowded with costly pictures, till I was sick and weary of magnificence. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z
But the most of them were sitting in the open waiting desolately for they knew not what. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z
Overlook it, Maisie," he asked desolately, as he turned away, "and good-by. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z
The finality of the phrase struck on her own ears desolately. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z
She listened till the song died away, and covering her face with her hands, she threw herself down upon the pillow, and sobbing desolately, murmured—"too late!—too late!" The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z
Sat desolately on the top step 335 “Oh, it’s you, is it?” she said. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z
I wondered whether men ever felt so desolately alone. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z
Then he fell to wandering desolately about the studio. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z
Admiral—jealousy—meanness-cruel—mere necessaries: little words like this used to reach Lady Sarah, creaking uneasily and desolately, unnoticed, round and round the drawing-room. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z
The wind worried and wailed through the tossing trees with whistling moans and shrieks that were desolately human, and made me think of the sobbing banshee of Irish legends. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z
She sat down desolately upon the little cream-and-gold chair and watched Josie as she pattered about taking down her hair and arranging it for the night. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z
He stood looking at the line of light, remembering desolately Dorinda's buoyant, triumphant mood. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z
Then she sat down desolately and began to cry, wondering what ever she should do. Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z
He had lost his wife ages ago and had been a sort of historic landmark for the last twenty years, living desolately at his club and knowing everybody who was worth while. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z
Three wounded blue and scarlet soldiers march along desolately, carrying brown paper parcels. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z
Harriet had got hold of a handkerchief by this time, and was sobbing most desolately into it. Deep Moat Grange
By the aid of the light which streamed through the open door he could discern dimly the rows of blackened rafters overhead, from which broken bits of hempen strings hung desolately. The Man from Jericho
Outside, across the Quai d’Orsay, a cold rain pelted desolately into the gray water of the Seine, and drew a wet veil across the opposite bank. The Key to Yesterday
George walked on with them, desolately aware of many factors of his life gone awry. The Guarded Heights
Empty were the boats, crowded desolately on the Scheldt. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z
The wind worried and wailed through the tossing trees with whistling moans and shrieks that were desolately human, and made one think of the sobbing banshee of Irish legends. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir
Close to Fleda's present abode was the little shop of a man who mounted and framed pictures and desolately dealt in artists' materials. The Spoils of Poynton
Notwithstanding a night as delightful as could be imagined, to-day it rained nearly all day most desolately. An Artilleryman's Diary
"If I could only know," she went on, desolately, to Margaret, the slow turning of the eyes betraying the approach of that lethargy which was soon to touch the muscles with numbness. East Angels
A few links of the chain hung desolately from a brooch that, robbed of its purpose, now looked almost vulgar. Helena Brett's Career
He broke off and stared desolately about him. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary
Randolph, after resigning his partner, wandered rather desolately through the brilliant throng, unobservant and little observed. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story.
At an average speed of six miles an hour, it is possible to see a great deal of the country; and, under brilliant moonlight, Mewar was desolately beautiful. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel
Some roared ferocious threats and curses; others cried desolately—wait! When the Mountain Shook
The man did not live who could say, much less think, that Oswald Dwight did not devotedly love his devoted wife and had not deeply, even desolately, mourned her untimely death. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade
About that same hour Rex Carshaw walked desolately to the apartment in Madison Avenue. The Bartlett Mystery
Below stretched Washington Square, almost as desolately empty as in those days when, instead of asphalt and trees and fountain, it held only the many graves of the pauper dead. The Portal of Dreams
Larry had not realized how desolately remote this Revolutionary New York was from the great future city in which he had lived. Astounding Stories, June, 1931
Pemrose Lorry echoed the cry, repeated it desolately, hours later, standing in her own room–a room that was a sort of sequel to herself, as every Camp Fire Girl’s nest should be. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl
The door, unlatched, swung open desolately upon creaking hinges. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch
Somewhere out in the night a woman was crying, crying desolately. The Phantom Lover
The clock in Elizabeth's dressing-room had struck eleven, but there she sat desolately looking into the fire, just as she had sunk into her chair on first entering the chamber. A Noble Woman
Away up beside her monster funnels her siren blew dismally, Whoo-oo-oo-oo! and was silent for the regulation period, and blew desolately again into the clinging gray mist that ringed her all about. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930
How could she help Rachel, she thought desolately, when she herself was a stranger among strangers? The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
The river had narrowed to less than a hundred yards in width and wound and twisted amongst the waste of marsh that stretched desolately ahead and astern as far as the eye could see. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades
Mary Hall covered her face with her hands, and wailed desolately in a high note, like a wolf's howl, that reverberated in that dim gallery. The Fifth Queen Crowned
They had missed him exceedingly at prayer-time; they had missed him desolately at meals. The Old Helmet, Volume II
A distant train whistled desolately across the sodden fields. Free Air
Drops of moisture shone desolately on the planes. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
“No, I ain’t hurt, Aunt Nancy,” said Creed desolately, and he stared past her at the wall. Judith of the Cumberlands
Husking was the last of the fall work and the last day of husking found Bradley desolately undecided. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West
"We are now about to get all the news of the neighbourhood," she said desolately. Love at Paddington
All her instincts are social, and she is, for the time being, almost desolately alone in a wilderness of strange human beings. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade
The great buildings of Saint Winifred’s were still as death; the footfall of the chance passer-by echoed desolately among them. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
The fall winds had strewn the grass with dead leaves and the half-bare limbs swayed desolately. The Root of Evil
Then she stumbled desolately back to her quarters. Security
He wandered desolately home, and; waited, and when the time drew near set out again. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
At length he desisted; and Grace, looking out and seeing his keen, handsome profile staring out so desolately, came down from the hammock. Vesty of the Basins
"It's quite a little romans," said Sam thickly, as he was pushed outside the last house of call, and a bolt shot desolately behind him. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant
From Father Holland's leave-taking to Hamilton's coming, was a desolately lonesome interval. Lords of the North
Hemmed in by four massive walls of granite, ghastly grim and desolately gray, we wrestled in a stifling stillness, while hell stood umpire at the game. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
As the light broke over the bay, coldly pink and desolately gleaming, Captain Joe got up and looked about him. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
"God knows, I've wanted you out of it, often enough!" he avowed, desolately. Phantom Wires A Novel
In the privacy of my own chamber, I could hear the old Captain tramping desolately about the Ark, calling, "Ma! ma!" Cape Cod Folks
The wind was moaning desolately about the house. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon
Nothing can be so desolately dreary as full strong sunlight can be. Alec Forbes of Howglen
At the risk of her life she dragged him across to the entrance, and sat desolately crumbling away between her fingers such feathers as were singed upon him, and sleeking his long gasping neck. The Lady of Fort St. John
"I'm afraid not," said Mrs. Fenn desolately, "Rumsey positively refuses to imagine he's got a pain anywhere, and the baby's tonsils are disgustingly healthy." From the Housetops
They rang upon the lawn, then pattered down the drive; they passed desolately out of the gate, they were lost on the highway, and then the world became blank again. Tales of the Chesapeake
She was weeping, leaning against the wall, weeping desolately, in an abandonment of humiliation and impotence. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories
She stood looking desolately around the room, and her simple heart tasted its own bitterness. The Debtor A Novel
The infidel, if at all considerate of the happiness of others, will naturally pause before he chases from their hearts a hope of which his own feels the want so desolately. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals
This visit, therefore, was to be Nina's first glimpse of her aunt's home, and the princess was determined that she should not spend the time desolately in the country! The Title Market
Christine burst into tears; she was overstrung and excited; her nerves were all to pieces; she sobbed for a moment desolately. The Second Honeymoon
And towering up amid the lesser throng, A giant oak, so desolately grand, Stretches its gray imploring arms to heaven In agonized demand. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation
Croppy inquired compassionately, stuffing his lighted pipe into his pocket, as I drifted desolately past him. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
Their brown leaves still clung to the veranda and rattled desolately with a dry, scaly sound in the burning wind of dawn. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
It fell all day, from the dim dawn, through the murky noon, to the dark evening, desolately weeping over a tired city. The Lee Shore
Last year's cotton-plants, desolately bowing, ��Tremble in the March-wind, ragged and forlorn; Red are the hillsides of the early ploughing, ��Gray are the lowlands, waiting for the corn. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
I stood for a little looking out rather desolately into the plain. The Child of the Dawn
Up starts resolution and independence, and I breathe desolately for a time, feeling myself once more a free woman. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
And all day the flat was desolately quiet. Married Life The True Romance
To think of that poor young exiled woman, after so grand a beginning, ending so desolately—shut up alone in her mysterious castle! Grey Roses
As for me, I am still utterly, desolately alone. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
A little cold hand squeezed Marcella's, and she answered Jimmy's eager questions about his father thoughtlessly, while a steamer coming into port hooted shrilly and desolately beyond the bar. Captivity
The young woman glanced around the desolately regular and forbidding room, and sighed. Trumps
It had an air of missing someone very desolately. Married Life The True Romance
Dull and dreary it came, drenched in rain, the wind wailing desolately over the dark, complaining sea. The Baronet's Bride
I had desolately made the crossing from country to country, had convoyed my aunt to her big house in one of the gloomy squares in a certain district, and then we had parted. The Inheritors
The moon was rising desolately over Lashnagar, and he stood for a long time in the window looking at the dead waste of it all. Captivity
I sighed, I believe, very desolately, for Lady Knollys came over and kissed me very gently and affectionately. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
She stayed all day in a flat, desolately quiet, waiting for one moment when the dearest and best came home. Married Life The True Romance
Wandering desolately through the streets and markets, with these words on her lips, she was recognized by a servant who had shared his master's captivity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
He saw so well the romance of that dun band that had cast remorse behind; that had no return, no future, that spread desolation desolately. The Inheritors
"Oh, make me stronger!—give me something," and suddenly raising himself in bed, he threw his arms about her and, with his grey head on her shoulder, sobbed desolately. Captivity
"I got up at eight for the first train, and now I feel"—she fell back in her chair, and whispered desolately with shut eyes—"as if I should like to die!" The Marriage of William Ashe
She shook her head, desolately, where it lay now against his knees, amid its tumbled hair. The Common Law
The night was very dark, and through it the sea moaned desolately. The Rocks of Valpre
The rest of the day she wandered desolately about her house, from one window to another, always staring, staring up at Hemlock Mountain. Hillsboro People
Who can forget those desolately emphatic human protagonists silhouetted so austerely along the tops of hills and against the perspectives of long white roads? One Hundred Best Books
He had returned to her, and he stood looking at her with those strangely keen eyes, almost as if he had never seen her before, she thought to herself desolately. The Top of the World
Afterwards, sitting together desolately in the magnificent drawing-room, she became affectionately maternal. The Secret City
The wind was moaning desolately through the trees. The Rocks of Valpre
In the gray light, black lines of people moved desolately up and down, not allowed to congregate and apparently not wanting to remain in homes they were weary of. What's the Matter with Ireland?
Day after day and night after night she had raised the drawbridge between her heart and memory, leaving the lonely thoughts to shiver desolately on the other side of the moat. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
Upon that they agreed to Mrs. Henniker's terms, and sitting down on one of the benches looked desolately into each others faces. John Caldigate
Long before five, a piteous wail ascended to heaven from fathers and husbands and wives and mothers, desolately mourning the dead in the streets of Caracas, La Guayra, Mérida, San Felipe, and Valencia. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
The rain streamed from the gutters and pattered desolately on the pavement below. The Rocks of Valpre
After running two hundred yards to one of the great broken bazaar-portals, I looked back to see if I was followed: but all that space was desolately empty. The Purple Cloud
The mist hung around the house; the wet leaves fluttered and fell upon their cheeks; the water lapped desolately against the pier. Malbone: an Oldport Romance
Alice found a handkerchief, used it for eyes and suffused nose, gulped, then suddenly and desolately sat upon the bed. Alice Adams
The Doctor looked desolately round the room, shook his head, and answered, in a low voice, "Not at all." A Tale of Two Cities
The evenly ridged fields were a blurred waste of mud, and the russet coverts which he and Owen had shot through the day before shivered desolately against a driving sky. The Reef
And Mr. Wylder looked poetically unhappy, and trundled over a little bit of fricandeau on his plate with his fork, desolately, as though earthly things had lost their relish. Wylder's Hand
He rejoiced to see general and field-officers riding desolately about the barren camp deprived of their commands. The Beautiful and Damned
I could not prompt him to go on, but he presently did so himself, desolately enough. Questionable Shapes
Last year's cotton-plants, desolately bowing,   Tremble in the March-wind, ragged and forlorn, Red are the hillsides of the early ploughing,   Gray are the lowlands, waiting for the corn. Songs out of Doors
The dawn found her sitting in the darkest corner of the room, and there it brightened about her desolately. Bride of the Mistletoe
He gave Eleanor a long troubled look, and said at last, very simply— 'Madame, you see a man broken hearted—' He stopped, staring desolately at the ground. Eleanor
Her abasement was now so deep, so desolately did she stand among her dependents, a naked woman spoiled of all her robes, that Prosper's honest heart smote him. The Forest Lovers
"You'd better go up to bed," she said desolately, going on with her work and her weeping. The Magnificent Ambersons
Prince Padema sat desolately on his lofty balcony at Florence, and cursed things generally. Revenge!
She leaned over the Seatown wall looking desolately in front of her. The Cathedral
Here, too, the fire had raged; the charred timbers of the fallen roof projected desolately into air. The Happy End
"Or yes, Mrs. Savor, you may take her a while;" and she put the child into the arms of the bereaved creature, who had fallen desolately back in her chair. Annie Kilburn : a Novel
Joy got the train with a desolately long interval of waiting at the station. The Wishing-Ring Man
Plovers wheeled and cried desolately, seeing the soft relentless snow between themselves and their green meadows, sad as those that see fate drawing thick veils between themselves and the meadows of their hope and joy. Gone to Earth
And each forgot in the dream so strange   How desolately far Swept on each path, for who shall change   The orbit of a star? English Poems
Without, the wind moaned desolately through the bare trees. The Bars of Iron
And when they could trust their footsteps they went desolately into the house together. A Golden Book of Venice
I choke with pain as I recognize my handsome lover desolately alone, striding with set face toward the lassoed pony. American Indian stories
She roused herself and sat up, looking desolately about her. In the Quarter
The enslaved natives, we are told, wove their sorrows into mournful ballads which they droned out desolately as they tilled the fields of their harsh masters. Christopher Columbus
It was a very lonely little girl that stood on the deck of a huge sailing vessel while the shores of England slipped down into the horizon and the great, grey Atlantic yawned desolately westward. The Moccasin Maker
Its moss covered walls, entwined with ivy planted by loving hands which have since crumbled into dust, look desolately out upon the old churchyard at its back. A Brief History of the United States
"That's what I said, 'Lancelot'!" cried Potter, more desolately than he intended. Harlequin and Columbine
But their footsteps sounded hollow, and the wardrobes, where they had so often put their clothes, stood wide open, desolately empty. Spring Days
"I know that you will do whatever you have made up your mind to do," said Lucian, desolately. Cashel Byron's Profession
For a moment he stared desolately at Mr. Yollop and then recovering himself gradually rushed with ever increasing velocity into the most violent hurricane of profanity that ever was centered upon the frailty of woman. Yollop
I'm but too conscious of how, on the other hand, I'm desolately outlined to all eyes, in an air as pure and empty as that of a fine Polar sunset. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
The dirty snow, frozen in thick lumps about the yard, was trodden by a furtive black cat, that mounted a fence and meowed desolately. Harriet and the Piper
She could only bow her head desolately upon her knees, as she sat, child- fashion, in her bed, and cry. Sisters
Nothing could be more real than Derry's sense of loss, no human being could weep more desolately or more unreasonably. The Heart of Rachael
The square was silent; desolately silent, as only a suburban square can be. Basil
Bitter winds came out of the North, and nights these winds wailed desolately through the tops of the spruce under which they slept. Back to God's Country and Other Stories
As she passed Ethan's chair their eyes met and clung together desolately. Ethan Frome
He only just caught the night train at Eltham, and I slept, desolately enough, at my old lodgings at Miss Dawsons', for that night. Cousin Phillis
She felt strangely shaken and cold, and desolately lonely. The Heart of Rachael
She could feel her soul crying out in her, lamenting desolately. Women in Love
"I don't know," said Mabel desolately; "it's it's such a long way off!" The Enchanted Castle
"You've probably more persons like his wife," Miss Ambient desolately smiled. The Author of Beltraffio
As they toiled desolately up the rustling and whispering side of a low hill the maid chanced to look back, and when she looked back she screamed and pointed, and clung to Becfola's arm. Irish Fairy Tales
I had an unpleasant mental vision of the dark road, of the sombre grounds, and the desolately suspicious aspect of that home of necromancy and intrigue and feminist adoration. Under Western Eyes
Calling to one another, it was not long before he saw the child wandering forlornly and desolately in the mist. Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)
The door of her tower creaked desolately to and fro a little, open as she had left it. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
She sat down desolately at the head of the table and looked from one to the other. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard
The cab starts; the deserted husband drifts desolately anyhow down the street. Miss or Mrs?
Self-centred they stand, and between them the seas of space are flooding desolately. The Crock of Gold
Paul quotes the allegorical prophecy of Isaiah to the effect that the mother of many children must die desolately, while the barren woman shall have an abundance of children. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
There is the indisputablest scarcity of corn;—be it Aristocrat-plot, D'Orleans-plot, of this year; or drought and hail of last year: in city and province, the poor man looks desolately towards a nameless lot. The French Revolution
When they met they looked desolately at one another, as much as to say, "Have you found anything?" The Three Musketeers
Even did she ride to anchor, desolately lonely, in the Bay of a Thousand Ships. Jerry of the Islands
When we lifted him up the head of Señor Ortega fell back desolately, making an awful, defenceless display of his large, white throat. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes
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