Abandoned

Examples

• My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ferdinand, the brother of Charles V, took over his abandoned work and met the German princes at the diet of Augsburg in 1555. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He abandoned the resin as a sensitive material, and went back to the salts of silver. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I carried out this idea, and made every man take a dose every day, but there was great opposition, and hot mercury was finally abandoned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• No less than a hundred tanks were abandoned _because they ran out of petrol_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mulberry plantations of th e Cévennes were abandoned and the whole region was desolate. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Some works are abandoned altogether; others can afford no rent, and can be wrought only by the proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In its rude beginnings, the unimproved wilds, which then occupy the far greater part of the country, are all abandoned to cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• About five miles out we found their field hospital abandoned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This feature he afterward abandoned, adopting the single knife, described by him as an alternative. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Sir Pitt lived in private, and boozed nightly with Horrocks, his butler or house-steward (as he now began to be called), and the abandoned Ribbons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then the car was over the bridge and out of sight behind the trees and the abandoned vehicles on the road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The demand for army shoes fell off, and the system was abandoned; but it had incited invention in the direction of machine-made shoes and the day of exclusive hand labour was doomed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Decatur has been abandoned, and so have all the roads except the main one leading to Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She now demanded that Carthage should be abandoned, and the population remove to a spot at least ten miles from the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She abandoned herself to HIM, or she took hold of him and gathered her joy of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He abandoned the attempt to cut dashes as such, in the paper tape, but instead punched three round holes so arranged as to form a triangle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At last I began to believe, that, in the flighty and unsettled state of his mind, he had either forgotten his intention or abandoned it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She took the abandoned rein, and conducted our obedient steed homewards. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• After the discovery of the mines of Peru, the silver mines of Europe were, the greater part of them, abandoned. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Two men, Wyatt and Paul, of Birmingham, had earlier built a machine to spin stronger yarn than that usually used, but their machine had shown many defects, and they had abandoned its use. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Abandoned his troops, ordered to be shot, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The town was as entirely deserted as if the inhabitants had abandoned it, rather than hold communication with him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It would be interesting to trace out the forms it has taken, the abortive cults it has tried and abandoned. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I'll partake of no one's hospitality, until I have--a--moved Mount Vesuvius--to eruption--on--a--the abandoned rascal--HEEP! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Typed by Emile