Lonely Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Lonely


Lonely as a deserted ship. —Anonymous	1
Lonely as a ghost. —Anonymous	2
Lonely as a trance. —Hartley Coleridge	3
Lonely as a crow in a strange country. —Joseph Conrad	4
There is nothing so lonely in the world as the girl who has got to look after herself. —Joseph Conrad	5
As lonely as the sun. —Sir Francis H. Doyle	6
Lonely as the Arctic Sea. —Hamlin Garland	7
Lonely in her gloom as a pale Angel of the Grove. —Thomas Moore	8
Lonely as the home of kings When the slow hours on leaden wings Oppress the friendless great. —Lewis Morris	9
Lonely, as sovereigns are. —Ouida	10
Lonely as a catamount. —Sam Slick	11
Lonely as in a garden-close Slumbers the solitary rose. —Arthur Symons	12
Lonely … as a crow on the sands. —William Wordsworth	13
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills. —William Wordsworth	14