Dilapidated

Examples

• So I picked out the worst dilapidated street there was, and found I could only get two buildings, each 25 feet front, one 100 feet deep and the other 85 feet deep. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She was a little dilapidated--like a house--with having been so long to let; yet had, as I have said, an appearance of good looks. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was on the second story of a dilapidated building on the principal street of the city, with the battery-room in the rear; behind which was the office of the agent of the Associated Press. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Last Supper is painted on the dilapidated wall of what was a little chapel attached to the main church in ancient times, I suppose. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Look at poor cropped and dilapidated Baalbec, and weep for the sentiment that has been wasted upon the Selims of romance! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What was the stupefaction of the friendly movers when this object at last emerging, proved to be a much-dilapidated dark lantern! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, when the sun was low, three men turned in at the gateway and made for the dilapidated house. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Work was soon resumed at Louisville, where the dilapidated old office occupied at the close of the war had been exchanged for one much more comfortable and luxurious in its equipment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was a window on each side of the dilapidated entrance; and one story above; but no light was visible. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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