What is "solitaries"

Usage examples of "solitaries".

Because, as has been elsewhere noticed, those whales, influenced by some views to safety, now swim the seas in immense caravans, so that to a large degree the scattered solitaries, yokes, and pods, and schools of other days are now aggregated into vast but widely separated, unfrequent armies.

Why did the Merged One allow solitaries to be born, condemning them to death and eternal separation from all existence?

She would have to tell him that infant solitaries were always killed, and that might provoke him.

Bruneys and such seelie domestic solitaries habitually remained indoors—their natural abodes were human shelters.

In general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the solitaries and hermits among the matured, aged Sperm Whales.

The Stinnes of the KGB didn't come West — not as defectors, not as agents, and especially not as solitaries who'd spend the rest of their days unrewarded, unloved, and uninvolved with the job, acting out a role in which they had no belief.

My Father, I have heard of the temptations which in times past assailed the holy Solitaries of the desert, flattering the reluctant flesh beyond resistance.

Therefore on the eve of the Assumption they sent a messenger to the Hermit, saying that at daylight on the morrow the townspeople and all the dwellers in the valley would come forth, led by their Bishop, who bore the Pope's blessing to the two solitaries, and who was mindful to celebrate the Mass of the Assumption in the Hermit's cave in the cliffside.