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Usage examples of deserted.

In a few days the English cannon had been placed in a circle round the fort, and set such strange music humming in the ears of the besieged that the Acadian farmers deserted and the priest nervously thought of flight.

There were only two obvious Anglo riders in the nearly deserted establishment.

Don Gados tells of coming upon a deserted Auca hut, and finding there a life sized human figure carved of balsa wood.

Devonshire militia had partly deserted and partly been defeated at Axminster that very morning.

He was the last to look out into the streets and across the little Plaza del Ayuntamiento, which was deserted and looked peaceful enough in the light of a waning moon.

Streets became deserted since Jews caught walking would be seized and forced to work at meaningless, backbreaking tasks like digging ditches or filling puddles of water with sand.

She went through the nearly deserted benchwork area to the small lab she occupied when not inside the hot lab, put down her coat, and activated her own computer terminal.

When Lord George Bentinck first threw himself into the breach, he was influenced only by a feeling of indignation at the manner in which he thought the Conservative party had been trifled with by the government and Lord Stanley, his personal friend and political leader, deserted by a majority of the cabinet.

The Bessarabian bank was deserted, save for two women kneeling on the gangway of the left-hand mill, washing clothes.

Then he turned to retrace his steps, and found the blank wall blanker and more deserted than ever, while the foreground was void of all trace of Olivia.

When they arrived, it was deserted except for the stage-line owner, Bill Fieldman, an ex-cowpoke who had been thrown by way too many broncs and who walked with a pronounced limp.

At any rate, the punishment, if it really took place, did not prove very effectual, for some fifty Brunswickers deserted in the course of the next five months, and the loss of men from desertion during the journey to Virginia was heavy.

Meantime, Cabeza got in the car and drove it up a deserted side street.

She could sense the emptiness around her, the deserted cabins, the lack of distant bustle.

The Club Cadiz was deserted, save for a few attendants who were loitering about among the tables.