In this connection, Sir Walter Lawrence says that he once found himself in a cantonment that had been deserted so long that it was swallowed up by the ever advancing jungle.
Thus, she was alone and friendless; besmirched in reputation; abandoned by her husband; and deserted by her lover.
His parents were in humble circumstances, and Massey was little more than a child when he was set to hard work in a silk factory, which he afterwards deserted for the equally laborious occupation of straw-plaiting.
One of the captains was so frightened at the prospect of a trial that he deserted on his way home and disappeared into Spain.
An escort of eleven colored infantrymen, led by a sergeant, apparently deserted by the Major, fought well, but was driven away after five of the soldiers had been wounded.
They had been deserted by six Mexican members of a posse trailing American cattle thieves, who were fleeing northward from near St. Johns, and were ambushed in a mountain canyon.
Oh, implore him to come to his sorrowing mother, to his deserted home.
When the shepherds thus deserted and starved their flocks, it was only natural that the sheep betook themselves to every form of schism, irreligion, and immorality.
A prosperous clergyman might hold half-a-dozen separate preferments, and, as long as he paid curates to perform the irreducible minimum of public duty, he need never show his face inside his deserted parishes.
More than that, an incomprehensible activity had been given to all the deserted Mexican mines, and people began to look up scrip hitherto thrown aside as worthless.
When our eyes met in the compartment our spiritual fortitude desertedus both; I took her in my arms, she pressed her face to my breast, and tears flowed from her eyes.
He had come alone from Fort Faraway, to the deserted camp over a hundred miles from the nearest habitation, to meet a new-found friend, one known in Last Chance Claim as Doctor Dick, and a man of mystery.
The night after leaving the Grand Cañon, Buffalo Bill and Doctor Dick camped again at the rendezvous of the deserted camp, which was marked by the grave of Black-heart Bill.
I will be your guide to the deserted camp, sir; but do you expect to find Mr. Cody there?
And I am on my way to seek Buffalo Bill, for I have an appointment to meet him not many miles from here at a deserted camp, where there is a grave.
And so it was that the two had met at the deserted camp to pick up the trail of the hermit and follow it to the end, bring what it might to Doctor Dick.
When the surgeon-scout was guided to the deserted camp by Andrew Seldon, he at once saw that Buffalo Bill had not reached there.
By rapid riding he reached the deserted camp soon after midnight, and, dismounting, prepared to go into camp.
After his night in the deserted camp where was the grave of Black-heart Bill he struck out for Fort Faraway.
Two men had met in the remote wilds of the Grand Cañon country, as the district bordering upon the Colorado River was called, having appointed a mysterious, deserted camp as a rendezvous.
So it was at the deserted camp they had met, and Doctor Dick had stood with uncovered head before a quaking aspen-tree, at the foot of which was a grave.
The itinerant minstrel found himself deserted by the audience he had collected, even in the most interesting passage of the romance which he recited, and just as he was sending about his boy, with bonnet in hand, to collect their oblations.
Amen," answered the steward, gravely; "I wish the poor deserted lad no ill.
The burden of his maintenance must necessarily be grievous to you in your deserted situation?
When the first violent paroxysm of his feelings had subsided, the deserted and friendless youth felt that mental relief which usually follows such discharges of sorrow.
The village, nestling beneath the grim protection of Osterno, was deserted and forlorn.
Here he lighted a cigar, and, tucking his hands deep into the pockets of his fur coat, he proceeded to walk slowly through the bare and deserted public garden.
The captain would not leave the vessel; for, till deserted by him, no salvage could be claimed.
I am only poor Countess Almaviva, deserted wife of a madly jealous husband.
She remembered all the stories she had read of men decoyed into dark corners, of men stabbed at the turn of some deserted street, or thrown into the Seine while crossing one of the bridges.
And, indeed, there was little of a reassuring character in the aspect of this broad road, quite deserted at this hour, and shrouded in the darkness of a tempestuous night.
Her presence of mind had entirely deserted her, and her tongue seemed to cleave to her palate.
She fancied she had heard a terrible cry of distress in the deserted street.
He had something to say to her that would be easier said in those deserted walks.
Daisy was very attractive to the children until Delia came, when they deserted their new friend for stories.
It was a deserted claim which you and some others had a shy at.
He looked inland to the little red-tiled village, to the deserted quay, from which all the fishing-boats had been dragged high and dry along the straight line of raised dyke which formed the footpath between him and the village.
She had taken his arm, encouraged him to make love to her, had deserted the bridge table in the evenings to sit in dark corners with him, had allowed him to hold her hand, even to snatch a few kisses.
It will be the authorities of the people, and all influential characters from among them, arrayed on one side, and on the other, the people themselves deserted by their leaders.
The report stated that their mother was dead and that their drunken father had deserted them.
Thus they got through the somewhat desertedstreet to the outskirts of the town unchallenged.
At MacMullin's farm were found the Boer wounded, deserted of their kind, who had scuttled with such alacrity that even their still smoking breakfasts had been foregone.
These are leftdeserted in winter, during which period Melchthal's journey was taken.
It lies with us at present to prescribe Laws, and take vengeance on those worthless traitors, Those skulking cowards that deserted us; One has already done his bitter penance, The Piccolomini: be his the fate Of all who wish us evil!
From the concurrent reports of these people, the Swedes learned that the town had been deserted by the troops, and that the government had fled to Budweiss.
And so the Wolfshot has deserted us; Others will follow his example soon.
How will the fools, who've now deserted him, Look then?
Besides, it is now too late; see, the first boat has already deserted the ship.
Winter was approaching, and the whole world returning to town; the country had a deserted look.
Another moment, and several large holes opened in the mountain-side nearest to them, from which streams of molten lava burst forth and began to descend towards the deserted settlement.
At this point Pauline deserted them and went down to the camp to cultivate the acquaintance of the widow Lynch, Mrs Welsh, and the other female and infantine members of the wrecked party.
Naturally enough, many deserted the red after a dozen rounds, and practically no one could now be found to stake upon it.
Fairs, deserted by men of business, gradually changed their nature, and, instead of being crowded by the active and the industrious, were the haunts of the idle and the dissolute.
The unfortunate girl whom he basely deserted is now a milliner, and naturally enough attends in the crowd to mark the fashions of the day.
