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Meanings of lonesome place in English

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Usage of lonesome place in English
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New York is a mighty lonesome place for a girl like her.
The Auction Block
2
It is an awfully lonesome place; desolation sits brooding among the broken-down walls.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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There was still a lonesome place in his heart for his own mother.
Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance
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He slipped into the undergrowth, while we waited in that dark, lonesome place.
Salute to Adventurers
5
Oh, I'll be making tracks for some lonesome place, he replied.
The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border
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The gully was a lonesome place inhabited by countless sea-birds.
The Scapegoat
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Her face fell, and she exclaimed involuntarily, "Oh, what a lonesome place!"
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
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He no more wearies of that lonesome place than do the sunbeams or the shadows.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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It was dark, and the lonesome place was silent.
The Scapegoat
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But what in the world do you want to go into that lonesome place for?
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
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New York is a lonesome place for a stranger.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
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I know New York of old, and it's a lonesome place for a poor lad.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
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What a cold, dismal, bleak, stony, and lonesome place!
Tales of lonely trails
14
It's a lonesome place in winter, I bet.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
15
Shall I say that, without their 'laughing light,' this world would be a dreary, lonesome place?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 / Devoted To...
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But when an illness held Aleta absent for a week the Dusty Doughnut seemed a lonesome place.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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