All 4 Uses of
desolate
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- A desolating wind wandered from the north over the hill whereon Oak had watched the yellow waggon and its occupant in the sunshine of a few days earlier.†
Chpt 1-3
- He wondered that the request should have come at this moment, for the strife was over, and they were on a most desolate hill, far from every human habitation, and the hour was getting late.†
Chpt 28-30
- Her life was becoming a desolation.†
Chpt 55-57 *
- So desolate was Bathsheba this evening, that in an absolute hunger for pity and sympathy, and miserable in that she appeared to have outlived the only true friendship she had ever owned, she put on her bonnet and cloak and went down to Oak's house just after sunset, guided on her way by the pale primrose rays of a crescent moon a few days old.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely