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Example sentences for "quitted the"

  • Lady Annabel accordingly, with a hurried step, following her guide, quitted the chamber.

  • His wife and his child had quitted the inn of Rovigo instantly after that mortifying rencounter that had dashed so cruelly to the ground all his sweet and quickly-rising hopes.

  • Was that the reason why you quitted the service, monsieur le chevalier?

  • Colbert was, without doubt, very much affected, for he quitted the chamber, calling Bernouin to attend to the dying man, and went into the corridor.

  • Saying this, he quitted the house, and took his way by the gate of Stephen to the Mount of Olives.

  • About the same time that the cannon announced that the corporation had quitted the town-hall, some one tapped at the chamber-door of Lord Eskdale, who was sealing a letter in his private room.

  • Nevertheless, he induced them to permit him to reach my tent, and brought these words, that the ever adorable had truly quitted the mountains, and that the lost letter had been written to that effect by the chieftain of the Ansarey.

  • I remained stupefied for a moment, but O'Brien roused me, and we quitted the Grande Place, taking up our quarters at a little cabaret.

  • O'Brien then resumed his dress of a gendarme; and about an hour afterwards we went down, and wishing the hostess all happiness, quitted the cabaret, returning the same road by which we had come.

  • I descended--the door was opened--I was announced by the first lieutenant, and he quitted the cabin.

  • This was something, but he did not keep his word; for his despatch was published before we quitted the roadstead, and not the name of one officer mentioned, only generally saying, that they conducted themselves to his satisfaction.

  • Thou shalt not die through my witness," said the earl, abruptly; and he quitted the chamber.

  • Edward then, singling Anthony Woodville and Lord Rivers from the group, broke up the audience, and, followed by those two noblemen, quitted the hall.

  • Before I quitted the room, Sarah and I were in deep converse at the window, and Mr and Mrs Drummond employed likewise at the table.

  • Up to the time that I quitted the lighter, at eleven years old, the banks of the river were the boundaries of my speculations.

  • I never fell in with Leonard Lewis, Littlefield, or any of the rest of those chaps, after I quitted the prison.

  • I was but a lad when I quitted the Sterling, it is true; but they tell me I have not altered a great deal in general appearance.

  • We had found an English country ship lying at Whampao, smuggling opium, and I got on board of her, as third-mate, a few days after I quitted the Wabash.

  • This was close stowage, and I was heartily glad when I quitted the ship.

  • And he quitted the room in the midst of general stupefaction and dismay.

  • Thus saying, Athos broke his sword across his knee, slowly placed the two pieces upon the floor, and saluting the king, who was almost choking from rage and shame, he quitted the cabinet.

  • And he quitted the room, leaving the lovers alone.

  • Raoul, observing the perfect composure which marked every gesture of his two friends, quitted the comte's room, carrying away with him nothing but the individual feeling of his own particular distress.

  • So saying, I quitted the room in search of the marechale, to whom I related what had passed.

  • The marechale insisted upon deferring her departure till I quitted the place.

  • You may remember what I told you in the last chapter of the person who entered, of his agitation and his blushes, and of his fixing his eyes with deep meaning upon me till he quitted the room-this servant was Noel!

  • Saying something to that effect, he quitted the room, leaving Sibylla sobbing; fractiously on the pillow of the chair.

  • She will be my wife, respected and honoured," was all he answered, as he quitted the room.

  • Leaving her in the hands of Catherine, he quitted the room.

  • Lionel, who knew his uncle's every mood, quitted the room.

  • I return to Manchac, where I quitted the Missisippi.

  • Let us return to Manchac, where I quitted the Missisippi; which I shall cross, in order to visit the west side, as I have already done the east.

  • He then moved away, desiring Mr. Lawson, as he quitted the rampart, to cause the men for this service to be got in instant readiness.

  • Since I quitted the city an hour has hardly passed, and by the way that I left it the forces of the Goths may enter it to-night.

  • Many of them, therefore, quitted the woods, and set their snares on the barren grounds near Fort Enterprise.

  • At{9} an early hour we quitted the huts, lashed on sledges as before, with some little addition to our party; and at three hours thirty minutes P.

  • He had not the means of procuring another suitable tenement in Chatham, and as soon as he had recovered from the injuries he had received, he quitted the town.

  • My mother smiled most graciously, put the piece of ribbon in paper, and handed it to Mrs Handbell, who, bowing to Captain Bridgeman, quitted the shop.

  • Curious to know what the matter could be, I quitted the shop, and went into the parlour, where I saw my mother with her face buried in the sofa pillow, and apparently in great distress.

  • Captain Delmar then shook hands with my mother, intimating his intention of paying her another visit very soon, and again patting me on the head, quitted the parlour, and went away through the shop.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quitted the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are here; good milk; great boon; greater evil; grew more; hard work; high resistance; irregular verbs; medieval times; might serve; minimum wage; past four; perennially navigable; peripheral neuritis; profound secret; public institutions; quiet and; quitted the; rectified spirit; seating herself; tail feathers; white birch