I wondered whether men ever felt so desolately alone.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
On the day after his arrival Peter, after midday dinner, standing desolately in the playground and feeling certain that he ought to be playing football somewhere but completely ignorant as to the place where lists commonly hung, saw another new boy and hailed him.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
It stood open to all the winds of heaven, two lines of paling, a little strip of platform, standing desolately, at wistful attention in the heart of gently breathing fields, mild skies, dark trees bending together as though whispering secrets ...
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole