Fred has come home in a very dilapidated condition.
No one was visible, no one answered when I spoke, and I sat down to wait on a dilapidated rush-bottomed chair which stood with its back to the red curtain.
The house of the monks of the "Friars of the Order Grey," stands near where a dilapidated sign of the Preaching Friar still swings over the entrance of a public-house.
His remains were deposited in the old family vault, which was so dilapidated that the proprietor was thinking of building a new one.
Without understanding that he was destroying the tree, he chopped away upon it to his heart's content, leaving the bark, if not the solid wood underneath, in a very dilapidated condition.
When his eyes had become accustomed to the dimness within, he saw that the interior was like that of the other church, only in a more dilapidated state.
At the altar in the empty church, where he offered the Mass in fulfillment of his promise to the people, her fair form glowed with heavenly radiance from the pedestal where before had stood the dilapidatedimage of the Virgin.
It was in a less dilapidated state than the others, and was provided with a fireplace, which the others were mostly without.
That afternoon thedilapidated old hack from Corinth to Gordon's Mills carried a passenger.
The Doctor was sitting in his dilapidated office chair thinking over all this, when he heard his brother physician's step on the stairs.
Mrs. Kimper rummaged for a moment in the drawers of a dilapidated bureau, and finally folded a red handkerchief and tied it over her head.
What was the stupefaction of the friendly movers when this object at last emerging, proved to be a much-dilapidated dark lantern!
I cannot say that I should ever have regretted leaving this ramshackle and much-dilapidated place, but of course I should have shrunk from the disgrace, the exposure, the feeling that I was the cynosure of all eyes.
At last they drew up outside a dilapidated gate, one hinge of which was off.
Her first intention was to take them down to one end of the dilapidated garden and read them steadily.
Presently they reached Cronane, which looked just as dilapidated as ever.
Presently they arrived at the back entrance of Cronane, the Murphys' decidedly dilapidated residence.
We found the village and the castle in a very dilapidated condition, and the great shaikh not at home.
Adjoining the Pools is the shell of a dilapidated khan, of old Saracenic period, the outer enclosure alone being now entire.
Then we came to the bridge called Jis'r el Mejama'a, which is in tolerably good condition, with one large and several smaller arches in two rows, and a dilapidated khan at the western end.
Her head was covered, but scarcely protected, by a large, dilapidated straw bonnet, through the rents of which peeped rebellious curls of her soft brown hair.
From this Oriental museum we were taken to the Governor's Palace, where we met his Excellency, sitting cross-legged on the floor of a small court, at the entrance of the ancient and dilapidated structure.
Everything appeared poverty-stricken, and it was a relief when the time came for us to take our seats in the dilapidated cars and leave the place.
Here a silver case, containing the dust of what was once the brave heart of Good Sir James, is still pointed out; and in the dilapidated choir above appears, though in a sorely ruinous state, the once magnificent tomb of the warrior himself.
Both were soon involved in the remains of the old church, much dilapidated as it had been by wanton damage done to it by the soldiery, and so much impeded by rubbish, that the knight marvelled how the old woman could find the way.
The prelate accordingly entered the walls of the dilapidated churchyard, preceded by his cross-bearers, and attended by numbers, with boughs of yew and other evergreens, used on the festivity instead of palms.
He tapped out his pipe on the side of the grate and began with nervous energy to refill it again from the dilapidated pouch.
I made no reply, as he pulled out the dilapidated pouch and filled his pipe.
From the position they now occupied, they could see a dilapidatedold houseboat lying beyond the Rambler, her nose resting lightly on the bank.
Standing on the rude platform before a small storehouse, the boy saw two men; one of sober aspect, wearing a long gray beard, and the other much younger and showing a laughing face under his dilapidated cap.
We (the women) were shown up a filthy flight of wooden stairs into a dilapidated room, the plastered walls of which were all smeared and discolored, the windows begrimed and darkened with dirt.
The building itself was in a somewhat dilapidated condition, but exhibited signs of having been once a place of importance.
