There are lone oak trees in dry, grassy fields, vistas with rolling hills and mountains.
There are lone salt springs on the pan that have built up little hillocks of clay and salt used by animals as salt licks.
There is one lone bottle of Coca-Cola, still absurdly fizzy when all else is dust.
Out of the 27 composers listed in OCR's current specification, there is a lone woman, who appears right at the end: Norah Jones.
There is a lone exception: his 1994 debut, "Clerks," is a fast, furious, and raucously funny variation on a single joke.
But then there is Amina Lone, a second generation immigrant from Pakistan, who says the views of a small contingent are not representative of the British Asian community.
There is a lone point of contact between this year's field and the most recent nominees for MTV's Video of the Year award: Kendrick Lamar's "HUMBLE.," which collected the channel's moon-suited statuette in August.
Amid a sea of pirated compact discs, fake Fendi bags and widgets of dubious function, there is a lone man, pushing his shopping cart along Canal Street, selling a commodity that has no price: history.
There is a lone paragraph describing a woman's head aflame — "Then she pulled out a lighter," part of it reads, "flicked it, and grabbed a clump of her hair" — that could compel Stephen King to increase the fire insurance on his own New England house.
There is one lone Romney poster in my neighborhood this time around, but everyone mostly stays silent.
