FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. - Ambrose Bierce

ALONE, adj. In bad company.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

On every side of me stretched a bleak and desolate expanse of plain, covered with a tall overgrowth of sere grass, which rustled and whistled in the ​autumn wind with heaven knows what mysterious and disquieting suggestion. Protruded at long intervals above it, stood strangely shaped and somber-colored rocks, which seemed to have an understanding with one another and to exchange looks of uncomfortable significance, as if they had reared their heads to watch the issue of some foreseen event. A few blasted trees here and there appeared as leaders in this malevolent conspiracy of silent expectation.