Meanings of lonely rock in English

For hours the Victoire bombarded the lonely rock from the north.

Far above him an eagle's nest clung to the lonely rock.

His lonely rock, when he looked round at it in wonder, was all unfamiliarly red.

Nor even the hapless position of Gibraltar, a lonely rock whose inhabitants voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU.

Yet here he was, sitting on a lonely rock, consumed with an unquenchable restlessness, a kind of trapped sensation.

Here follows a noble burst of poetical fervour in praise of the lonely rock, and the scenes of the huntsman's youth.

Their cheers at his verdict reverberated out from the synthesis refinery chamber, spreading like a high-frequency quake throughout the lonely rock.

That lonely rock ran hundreds of feet up into the heavens, and pointed downwards also to the deepest part of the blue.

The foreign colony, disturbed like a flock of gulls on a lonely rock, flutters back as soon as the battle blast is over.

Yet, even as I wrestle with my cousins for control over this lonely rock that was our common home, I'm reminded how much I've lost.

In the last days of 1812 the eyes of all German patriots were fixed longingly and hopefully upon that lonely rock in the North Sea.

The sort of yearning I feel towards those lonely rocks is indescribably acute.

Strange shapes shall hew thy monument in the recesses of the lonely rocks!

His boat had struck a huge, dangerous rock called Lonely Rock, and been wrecked.

Before daylight all were safely carried to the bare, lonely rocks, with a goodly store of food and water.

'I went out upon the lonely rock which commands so delicious a panoramic view.