lonesome
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In America nowadays, critics usually travel in packs, afraid to stray lest they be left wandering by their lonesomes outside the conventional wisdom.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011
Accordin' to that," said Conrad, "the whole crowd ought to have a dizzy good time, for they're about as fine a job lot of lonesomes as I ever struck.
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
But we can do it later by our lonesomes.
From Molly Brown's College Friends by Speed, Nell
It'll mean going up there and baching, six or seven months of the year, by our high lonesomes.
From The Flying U's Last Stand by Bower, B. M.
Here you are, as Ikey says, 'All fixed up, und by your lonesomes.'
From Apron-Strings by Gates, Eleanor
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