Deserted

Examples

• The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But no, sir, no; I doen't mean as it should be deserted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I, who never have deserted you; who never WILL desert you, Micawber! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The house seems deserted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They went out by another staircase, avoiding the lodge; and coming into the front court-yard, now all quiet and deserted, gained the street. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Then I rushed up the stairs, only to find two other rooms empty and deserted at the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You're like the pictures on the walls of a deserted house: 'The Portrait of a Gentleman. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• One day Emmy, with George in her hand and clad in deep sables, went to visit the deserted mansion which she had not entered since she was a girl. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Everywhere was still and deserted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was still very early in the morning and the streets were practically deserted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Here he turned swiftly down a narrow passage, passed through a wooden gate into a deserted yard, and then opened with a key the back door of a house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I've deserted from the army. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The birds were chirping, perched on the windows sills and deserted thresholds of the doors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If the cottage is now permanently deserted we may have some difficulty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, my own bed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Your father has absconded—deserted you—and you mustn't expect to see him again as long as you live. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• What is the meaning of the house being deserted in this way? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then on through the level darkness, with glimpses of sleeping farms and thin poplar trees and deserted high-roads. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Boulevard was all deserted, its path miry, the water dripping from its trees; the park was black as midnight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The silence of the deserted street reassured him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After remaining a week at Dijon, until thirty of our number deserted the vacant ranks of life, we continued our way towards Geneva. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The town was as entirely deserted as if the inhabitants had abandoned it, rather than hold communication with him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The establishment was, of a consequence, wholly deserted, when Cassy and Emmeline glided into it the back way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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