Thus improved in circumstances, they gladly quitted the ghastly scene, and made for a bushy hillock a few hundred yards in advance.
So saying he quitted the room, leaving the young couple alone; for there chanced to be no other visitors to the reception-room at the time.
She is a lucky girl, Terence," Ryan said, as they quitted the shop.
Each party quitted the room by opposite doors in no very harmonious frame of mind; yet, spite of ill humour with each other, they were irresistibly excited by the intelligence just received.
So saying, Rachel quitted the room, and her young mistress was left to collect her scattered senses.
She was engrossed with her husband, and never willingly quitted him for a moment, thinking of nothing but as it regarded him, and viewing his brother and her sister more as means for his entertainment than in their substantial aspect.
He might strive not to be exacting; but his face showed in spite of himself that when she quitted the room the light of his life went with her, and there was nothing left him but tedium, helplessness, and sore suffering.
The moment breath quitted the noble dame's body, the servants ran furiously through the castle, emptying every vessel of water lest the departing soul should be drowned therein.
Tom, who had quitted his coign of vantage, followed by the excited dogs, no longer to be restrained.
As they quitted the rough stone causeway, they appeared to drop with reluctance into a species of slough.
The Benmohrs found their apartments in apparently the same state of faultless order in which they had quitted them.
When they quitted the scene of their encounter, the explorers passed into a region of grand savannahs and endless forest parks, waving with luxuriant grasses.
Wilfred Effingham had never before quitted home upon any more danger-seeming journey than a continental trip or a run over to Ireland.
Under provocation it was as untamed as that of any son of MacCallum Mohr who had never quitted the paternal glen.
We can only say at present, that, after a long interview with Rodin, two nights before, the Thug hadquitted him with downcast eyes and cautious bearing.
Cardoville, all proved that her obedience to Rodin's orders had borne fatal fruit, and that Mother Bunch had quitted the house for ever.
We have said, that Florine, yielding too late to a generous repentance, had reached Mother Bunch's apartment, just as the latter quitted the house in consternation.
Rodin and the Abbe d'Aigrigny appeared to be at variance when they quitted the house?
Steingall looked at the police captain, who quitted the apartment instantly.
That the lady quitted her supposed husband as soon as she discovered the fraud which had been practised on her.
An ambulance came just then, to take the body to the mortuary, and, when it had departed, the two men quitted the traffic bureau where they had been talking, and entered the hotel.
Don John chuckled noiselessly when Claudio and Don Pedro quitted the garden; he gave Borachio a purse containing a thousand ducats.
Having thus ended the banquet, he went into an outhouse, seized a spade, and quitted Athens for ever.
From barn and woodpile the goodman came; The goodwifequitted her quilting frame, With her child at her breast; and, hobbling slow, The grandam followed to see the show.
Seeing themselves pursued, they quitted their horses, and took to their heels; but, by reason of their accoutrements, could make little speed.
Milan was more strictly guarded than when he had quitted it.
Then, observing that he had affairs of importance to attend to, he abruptly quittedthe room.
In 1603, having quarrelled with Henri IV, he quitted his service for that of Philip III of Spain, and died the following year of a wound received at the siege of Ostend.
This brought upon him a severe reprimand from the King, and, burning with resentment, the young man promptly quitted Henri IV’s service and entered that of Spain, in which he met an untimely death.
Mayenne quitted the Court without taking leave of the King.
The Russians having thus proclaimed their victory quitted the village, leaving their souvenir of terrorism.
The master of the house, who was seated in an easy-chair, which he never quitted on account of an incurable malady, had still more nerve and energy than most of the visitors assembled in his rooms.
When we had company, I was disgusted by an ostentatious display of riches, and I have often quitted the room, to avoid listening to exaggerated tales of money obtained by lucky hits.
All I know is, that she must havequitted the chaise, shameless wretch!
My husband was very much engaged in business, and quitted the room soon after the cloth was removed.
This rumour came to her husband's ears, and he took it so much to heart, that he quitted his home, and did not return to it until a few weeks before his wife's death.
Truly so, my father; no sooner did the council of yesterday disperse, than, fearing the discovery of his guilt, he assembled his officers and guards and quitted the city.
He was certainly not the first, nor the last, young Templar who has quitted special pleading on a crusade to the heights of Parnassus, and he began early to try the nib of his pen and the colour of his ink in a novel.
She quitted her business and came to Paris with her husband and daughter, who, by her industry, maintained all the three.
It was now their principal residence--the Vaughans of Queen's Chase never quitted it.
She thought of Hyacinth's strange manner for several minutes after the young girl hadquitted the room.
Who could have recognized her crouching there with fever in her brain, with anguish in her heart, as the beautiful brilliant girl who quitted that same room a few hours since, radiant with love and hope?
But before Mrs. Chalmers quitted the room she unlocked a drawer and took from it a small purse; this she placed in Millicent's hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
