Scattered

Examples

• He must have been one of a patrol scattered out in these hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Each estrada includes about one hundred of the scattered Heveas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Iron filings scattered over a magnet arrange themselves in definite lines. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The first of my scattered senses that came back was the sense that warned me to sacrifice anything rather than make an enemy of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The apes scattered by ones, and twos, and threes in all directions, but ever within sound of a signal of alarm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Some train had newly arrived in Coketown, which had put a number of vehicles in motion, and scattered a considerable bustle about the town. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• When his first pen was worn out, THAT went over his shoulder too, and he pounced on a second from the supply scattered about the table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In scattered islands and in Papua and New Guinea we find another series of black and brownish peoples of a more lowly type with frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Scattered, disunited--the very air of the place poisoned with mystery and suspicion! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Look how different it would be if they were all scattered out across that hill where that gray horse is. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Volumnia is away next day, and all the cousins are scattered before dinner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These Etruscan people conquered most of Italy north of the Tiber from the Aryan tribes who were scattered over that country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Several discs of metal, old coins apparently, such as I hold here, were scattered over the bottom of the box, but it contained nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He wished probably to inspire me with confidence, and give me time to gather together my scattered thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And these sounds he rendered yet more fearful, by banging against each other two or three pieces of rusty armour which lay scattered around the hall. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And in a moment again, the broken lights scattered in explosion over her face, dazzling her; and then, almost immediately, came the second shot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• By Jove, I promised to join the Duchess for supper at the LONDON HOUSE; but it's past twelve, and I suppose they've all scattered. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The breeze scattered the grey locks on his temples, the rain drenched his uncovered head, he sat hiding his face in his withered hands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Remains of the same sort of art that distinguishes Cnossos and Mycen? are to be found scattered over Asia Minor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Nita