1 I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased.
2 The scene was perfectly solitary; a few boats were returning towards land, but I sailed away from them.
3 For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
4 If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
5 He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
6 I determined to go without a guide, for I was well acquainted with the path, and the presence of another would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene.
7 A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.
8 In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.