1 He had been afraid that she would hate the hard life, the cold and loneliness; but not a sign of discontent escaped her.
2 There was a loneliness, an isolation, about it that chilled her.
3 The still house with the sense of death heavy upon it pressed about her loneliness until she felt she could not bear it unaided any longer.
4 Now in her loneliness, she would have liked to while away the afternoons with Maybelle or Fanny or Mrs. Elsing or Mrs. Whiting or even that redoubtable old warrior, Mrs. Merriwether.
5 Trembling, frightened, a sudden feeling of loneliness upon her, she clasped his arm.
6 Through the long hours of silence the dark spirit of fatigue and loneliness crouched upon her breast, leaving her so drained of bodily strength that her morning thoughts swam in a haze of weakness.
7 She felt a sudden pang of profound loneliness.
8 But the sense of loneliness returned with redoubled force as she saw herself forever shut out from Selden's inmost self.
9 It was not till she entered her own door that she felt the reaction of a deeper loneliness.
10 With the loneliness which comes most depressingly in the midst of many people she tried to forget problems, to look at the prairie objectively.
11 Her heart shivered with that still loneliness as her body shivered with the wind.
12 Across it he peered at her with such loneliness that she was startled.
13 With the loneliness of one who has put away a possible love Carol saw that he was a stranger.
14 Except when Hugh was vigorously naughty, or whiney, or laughing, or saying "I like my chair" with thrilling maturity, she was always enfeebled by loneliness.
15 The last thing she saw on the station platform was Kennicott, faithfully waving his hand, his face so full of uncomprehending loneliness that he could not smile but only twitch up his lips.