Dispersed

Examples

• A few of our cavalry dashed in, and forded and swam the stream, and all opposition was soon dispersed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The crowd had gradually dispersed in their immediate vicinity, and they were nearly alone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The sound of the dressing-bell dispersed the party. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The crowd dispersed, indeed, but the knight was nowhere to be seen. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But it was not essential after the enemy was dispersed from our front, or even after the battle for this purpose was begun. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Jews were already a people dispersed in many lands and cities, when their minds and hopes were unified and they became an exclusive people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lights entering a diamond are reflected, refracted and dispersed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And, with this pathetic benediction, the assembly dispersed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A third host began with a great pogrom of the Jews in the Rhineland--for the Christian blood was up--and this multitude was also dispersed in Hungary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Rhineland children tramped into Italy, many perishing by the way, and there dispersed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The inhabitants of the country, dispersed in distant places, cannot easily combine together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Not the reign of your vainly-expected Messiah offers such power to your dispersed tribes as my ambition may aim at. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The rest are commonly dissipated and dispersed in the desert. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were dispersed over the fields, stopping now and then, and looking back in terror. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The house was pretty full; I had prepared a number of printed copies, and provided pens and ink dispersed all over the room. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The rain pours; Gardes-du-Corps go caracoling through the groups 'amid hisses'; irritating and agitating what is but dispersed here to reunite there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The sermon found an end; the benediction was pronounced; the congregation dispersed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The coffee came in; the guests rose, and dispersed themselves about the room; and we joined the ladies of the dinner-party upstairs. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was not until even the dusty cloud was no longer to be seen, that the gazers dispersed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Men, who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves, dispersed themselves, and were employed in various arts of cultivation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It dispersed after an insurrection at Prague had been suppressed by Austrian troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On his return up-stairs, the rest of the guests soon dispersed, and he was left alone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This notorious guerilla was afterwards surprised and killed near Greenville, Tennessee, and his command captured and dispersed by General Gillem. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The roof yet vibrated with the cheering, when the assembly dispersed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Long after these constitutional powers had dispersed, my sister lay very ill in bed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The friends of the acquitted prisoner had dispersed, under the impression--which he himself had originated--that he would not be released that night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The lens, then, gathered in the points of light and dispersed them on the film so as to form an image. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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