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Example sentences for "deserted village"

  • We pressed on, as we were anxious to get to a deserted village which Mr. Goldie knew to breakfast.

  • About four miles from here we passed a deserted village on a table-rock, at one time the home of this people; but the Sogeri natives came over and killed eleven of them, and the others thought it time to settle somewhere else.

  • It would be folly to return to get the tomahawk, so we kept south and west for some distance, when we came to a deserted village; then we turned west.

  • In his first volume of poems, Cowper is more hampered by literary fashions than was Goldsmith in his Traveller and his Deserted Village.

  • As we approached a deserted village, in which was standing one tepee, about 11 A.

  • June 17th, and near the site of a deserted village.

  • For three hours they wandered about, and were fortunate enough to find a deserted village, where they gathered some bananas and pineapples.

  • The commandant decided to halt, for the night, at a deserted village.

  • The troops entered a deserted village, and there halted.

  • To such a picture the Deserted Village bears a great resemblance.

  • While Goldsmith was writing the Deserted Village and She Stoops to Conquer, he was employed on works of a very different kind--works from which he derived little reputation but much profit.

  • In May 1770 appeared the Deserted Village.

  • The "Deserted Village" is rich in natural beauty.

  • Five miles from this point brought us to the "Deserted Village," or the Upper Adirondack Iron Works, with houses and furnaces abandoned, and rapidly falling into decay.

  • On the 19th we arrived at Mpokwa's deserted village.

  • Compare with the "Deserted Village" and the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," in purpose and in style.

  • On arrival at the opposite side we continued through the same beautiful forest, and slept that night at a deserted village, M'Baze.

  • In about three hours they returned, accompanied by two old men, and laden with three large jars of good water; they had found the old people in a deserted village, and they had guided them to a spring about three miles distant.

  • Goldsmith's Deserted Village had struck a new chord, upon which Crabbe continued to play.

  • If in The Traveller he has been philosophical and didactic, in the Deserted Village he is only descriptive and tender.

  • In 1770 appeared his Deserted Village, which was even more popular than The Traveller; nor has this popularity flagged from that time down to the present day.

  • His father afterwards moved to Lissoy, which the poet described, in his Deserted Village, as Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain.

  • Apart from this hack-work, now rendered necessary by his debt, it is probable that one strong inducement leading him to this occasional seclusion was the progress he might be able to make with the Deserted Village.

  • The ruined or deserted village of the Little Osage seen by the party stood on the right or south bank of the Missouri, in the western part of the present Saline County, Missouri, not far from the village of Malta.

  • Take him as a poet, his Traveller is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his Deserted Village, were it not sometimes too much the echo of his Traveller.

  • Goldsmith, in like manner, distrest though he so often was, dedicated his Traveller to his brother, the Deserted Village to Sir Joshua, and She Stoops to Conquer to Johnson.

  • Goldsmith, in his dedication to Reynolds of the Deserted Village, refers no doubt to Johnson's opinion of luxury.

  • His "Deserted Village" is full of childhood reminiscences.

  • To such a picture the "Deserted Village" bears a great resemblance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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