alone vs high and dry

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

high and dry

adj
  • Abandoned, stranded, helpless. 

  • Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock. 

  • Associated with the high church (the Church of England and other Anglican traditions, in reference to their "high" political position in England and "dry"/austere mode of worship), as opposed to the "low and slow" Evangelical party and the "broad and shallow" broad church. 

  • With no condiments. 

How often have the words alone and high and dry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )