1922, Elizabeth Frazer, The secret partner‎, The alonest man on the face of the globe! I was stopping in a cheap lodging downtown, in a dreary, drab little cell of a bedroom...
1967, Piri Thomas, Down these mean streets‎, I was the alonest. I heard the walking of shoes and I looked in the direction of the noise. It was the counterman.
2000, Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio‎, Crosby declined and, as Winchell walked away, he seemed to Crosby "the alonest man I ever did see."
