companionless

Example Sentences

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It is called the Cemetery of the Companionless.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

In that way, this is a novel determined to pay attention to the most alienated, those people discarded in Istanbul’s Cemetery of the Companionless.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2019

Companionless and impatient, his chief thought was how to get home most comfortably, and so he returned no better than he went.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

Why is my rival made a C.B., while I "go forth Companionless" to meet the chances and the vexations of another year?

From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine

Companionless, inert, he suffered the tortures which are so ludicrous and contemptible to the happily married.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George