But upon the ridge of Gezer no sign of all this now remains, except in the Tel Jezer, and in a sweet hollow to the north, beside a fountain, where lie the scattered Christian stone of Deir Warda, the Convent of the Rose.
She got up with a jerk, and her letters werescattered on the ground.
By the firelight she saw the scatteredjewels and gathered them together; then she put the letters in a pile, with Colonel Lancing's at the bottom.
But since man proposes and God disposes, the posts were either careless, or God ordained it thus; for suddenly the enemy rushed upon our men, who could not unite, as they were by that time scattered through the forest.
At the same moment a squad of policemen separated and scattered to the different platforms.
A moment later, having recovered a part of his scattered senses, our hero, thrusting himself through the shattered framework of the cab, staggered to his feet.
The world has scattered round my path Honor and wealth and fame; But naught so precious as the thoughts That gather round her name.
As did the morning air And scattered o'er their simple robes Rich tints of beauty rare.
On the opposite side was an escritoire with writing implements, and a few scatteredsheets of paper.
At the first opening of the outer door the cold wind of the spring night came into the room with a burst, and scattered a handful of papers about the floor.
It took a full quarter of an hour to wear out this prodigious welcome, and even then it broke out anew in scattered bursts and spurts, as if the people could never have enough of it.
In the centre of the room was a table, and two or three disordered chairs were scattered about the apartment.
Heinrich flashed a contemptuous glance at the scattered metal, and said: "Lieutenant, see that this trash is gathered up.
Heinrich, with a sweep of his hand, scattered the coins clattering to the stones, and with the flat of his drawn sword struck the captain quickly, first on one side, then the other.
The same motion scattered the foam gathering at his open lips, and flecked white splotches on his black beard.
The men are scattered north, east, south, and west of this place, and cannot be rallied in time to harm me.
It was to remove this impression that I stated to you a moment ago that the stipulated amount will be paid in full, not deducting the coins scattered in the castle yard.
It is now a mean-looking, scattered place, consisting of several unpaved streets, on the bank of the Wabash.
The vicinity is one of the most curious spots on the course of the canal, with scattered buildings, a busy population, much water, and fine forests.
At three o'clock the boat's bell summoned the scattered party to return.
The dwellings of a few planters werescattered on the hills.
They lived hitherto {501} twelve or fifteen miles from this place, scattered on their plantations, and their settlement is usually called a village, though the dwellings are all isolated.
Fine tall trees covered the hills on the bank, which my people ascended in order to purchase provisions in the scattered dwellings of the planters.
A great many women were thus {442} occupied, for the Indians were desirous of going to their summer village, because they were now too much scattered to be safe while the enemy was so near at hand.
The whole surrounding plain was covered with scattered tents of the Sioux, mostly of the Teton branch, and a few Yanktonans.
The whole country through which we passed, except near Vincennes, close to the Wabash, is an uninterrupted forest, in which the dwellings of the settlers or backwoodsmen liescattered on both sides of the wood.
They didn't pause to investigate the mines and scattered farms of the satellite, but ten great ships settled, and a horde of warriors began pouring out.
The two former are looking for the transports with troops which left the United States and have scattered all about the island.
The Winslow swung around broadside to, to bring her two after guns to bear as the Spanish boats scattered and lost formation.
The first leaf contains a miniature showing Talbot and his wife at prayer under the protection of their patron saints, and many other miniatures are scattered through the rest of the volume.
There half-savage Beduin tribes were scatteredabout over the deserts, and there some of the worst slave-dealers had their haunts.
Then we rode past several tents, and when we reached the top of the next pass we saw that tents lay scattered about on the plain like black spots, fourteen together in one place.
The rest of the army was completelyscattered and took to flight.
The straw is scattered among the stones, my bed dances along the stream, and all the men rush down to save what they can.
Boulders of Swedish granite lie scattered over the plain.
A little beyond the luxuriant vegetation of the banks extends the boundless grassland with its abundant animal life and thin scattered clumps of trees.
Four thousand dead bodies lay scattered over the ground, among thousands wounded and bleeding.
The dead, which were already buried when Vesuvius scattered its ashes over them, listen now to strange footsteps on the road.
Stand for a moment in the valley above the tree limit, where only scattered plants can find hold in the hard ground.
Many have their faces covered with blood, others have their clothes torn, caps and whips lie scattered over the arena, and one or two horses are lamed.
Some of the men marched back with the false package, which they took to pieces at night and scattered among the bush.
The farther we proceed the smaller and more scattered are the villages.
The sick come to recover health in the waters of the sacred Ganges, the old travel hither to die, and the ashes of those who die in distant places are sent to Benares to be scatteredover the waters of salvation.
Newly formed ice had stretched a tough sheet between the scattered blocks of ground ice, and to the east lay an ice-belt barely six miles broad.
Were they all to be scattered and sent to different parts of the country?
Maverick rose, and scattered the winking brands with his boot-heel.
The train dashed past the first scattered lights of the town.
As Secretary of War he was reported through the northern press to have scattered the little army the country had so that the most of it could be picked up in detail when secession occurred.
He said the enemy had come out of his lines in full force and attacked and scattered McClernand's division, which was in full retreat.
The ground on which the battle was fought was undulating, heavily timbered with scattered clearings, the woods giving some protection to the troops on both sides.
The last sublime utterance of our Lord had gathered all the scattered rays into a beam so bright that the blindest could not but see, and the coldest could not but be warmed.
While Christ lived, these two men had been unfaithful to their convictions; but His death, which terrified and paralysed and scattered His avowed disciples, seems to have shamed and stung them into courage.
But our Lord brings them together here, in this condensed repetition, in order that the scattered rays, being thus focussed, may have more power to illuminate with certitude, and to warm into hope.
What flagitious waste it would seem to an ignorant person to see scattered on the floor the bright green leaves and the incipient clusters, and to look up at the bare stem, bleeding at a hundred points from the sharp steel.
With the soldier element scientifically broken up and scattered all over the country, who could revolt--the women and children?
A roll of drum, a flare of brass, and the crowd, scattered voices at first, and then swelling in a grand crescendo, sang Deutschland uber Alles.
Subscription blanks were scattered broadcast for contributions for the cause of light and truth.
It is the isolated and scattered men, moved often from place to place for exhibition purposes, who miss parcels.
Numberless delicate little winged shells were scattered over the moist surface, tenantless homes of tiny bivalves, wonderfully tinted.
Every seventh day the guns ceased bellowing and throwing iron things that burst and scattered Death broadcast, and the rifles stopped crack-cracking and spitting steel and lead.
As the taxi glided along John strove to gather his scattered wits, but it was not until a plain, quietly-furnished room had been achieved in Scotland Yard, that any light broke in upon his senses.
A large bookcase occupied one wall of the room, and in the middle of the floor was a business-like table, scattered with papers.
Manton seized the moment to survey the heavy splendour of the dark antique furniture, the wide spaces of the hall and the richness of the rugs scattered over the polished floor.
Below him spread the bright golden sands, a few chalk boulders were scattered here and there, and the waves continued to roll and break languidly as before.
The sand was smooth and firm, with round, sea-eroded pebbles plentifully scattered here and there--the usual pebbles that lay in thousands upon the beach.
As the flotilla moved off, the fort blew up with a loud explosion, its fragments being scattered far around.
Just at that instant the junk, from which their attention had been diverted, and which had been in flames fore and aft, blew up with a loud explosion, portions of the fragments being scattered far and wide, many falling close to them.
The shore was reached at last, but no one was seen, though fragments of the wreck were found scatteredabout and fixed in the crevices of the rocks.
The older women became the slaves and drudges of the squaws and the boys and girls were parted from their mothers and scattered among the savage families.
These few scattered facts will give some notion of the bitter feeling that prevailed during the first ten or twelve years of the fight against slavery in Ohio.
Six hundred boys and girls from the public schools met him at sunrise, on the morning of his arrival, and scattered flowers under his feet and made the air ring with their shouts of "Welcome to Lafayette!
Behind, the scattered Burgundians had rallied and begun to pursue, while the armour and spears of the English glittered in front between the little party and the barrier which was blocked by a terrified crowd of fugitives.
Silently the feast passed with no holy privileges of religion, no blessed token of the spring, no remembrance of the waving palms and scattered blossoms over which her Lord rode into Jerusalem to die.
At the edge of the stream sat an old hermit with a long white beard, who neither spoke nor moved as the king approached, but sat throwing into the stream dry leaves which lay scattered about the ground near him.
The sparks were scatteredin every direction, and one fell on the net, making a little blaze.
There were carpets everywhere, thick and soft, and of deep rich colours; and the cushions were of silk, and made you sleepy even to look at them; and curious little figures in china were scattered about.
Small groups or solitary springs that are scatteredeverywhere in the woods, upon the mountain-sides, and which would otherwise escape observation, are detected by the columns of steam.
Leaving Mount Washburn, with its summit piles of basalt, and its precipitous slope scattered with agates and beautiful fragments of sardonyx, chalcedony, and malachite, let us descend to the valley.
Hot springs are scattered along the valley of the creek for several miles, some of them of considerable size and beauty.
Numbers of such self-extinguished craters, now cones of solid rock, are scattered along the river-side.
Numerous lakes are scattered throughout its whole extent, and great numbers of springs, which flow down the slopes, are lost in the volume of the Yellowstone.
At any rate, these woods belong to the Coal Series of the West, and they are scattered profusely among the conglomerates.
Vast quantities of silicified wood of great perfection and beauty are scattered all over the surface.
When the crater is filled, it is expelled from it in a splashing, scattered mass, ten or fifteen feet in thickness, to the height of forty feet.
Hot streams of vapor were pouring from crevices scattered over them.
Scattered over the hills and through the valleys are numerous beautiful specimens of chalcedony and chips of obsidian.
Scattered along both banks of the river are boiling springs from two to twelve feet across, all in active eruption.
Still farther south are others, to the number of perhaps twenty, and to the southwest more of them, scattered over the vast expanse of the basin, rising from behind the wooded hills in every direction.
Forty or fifty comparatively unimportant geysers and boiling springs are scattered along the narrow valley to the junction of Iron Spring Creek, the lower limit of the Upper Geyser Basin.
Numerous small knolls are scattered over its surface; the craters of boiling springs from 15 to 25 feet in diameter; some of these throw water to the height of three and four feet.
The bottom of the ravine is of fine mud, scattered with blocks of silicious deposit, like cakes of floating ice after a thaw.
It took us half a day or more to recapture the horse, and to pick up his scattered load.
Probably there will be spots of more or less renown scattered up and down throughout all the country.
Maori and settler are on perfectly equal terms, and the former know it; moreover, they are not an homogeneous people, but live scattered in small communities.
The reverend gentleman was not very popular among thescattered settlers in the district, and had often made himself obnoxious to them, as they considered.
They were not feeding about in scattered groups, as was usual, but were collected in one flock, huddled up together.
And we scatteredthe ashes in a raupo swamp, and quietly went home.
In a day we had run the whole length of Kennedy Channel, and immediately before us there was only scattered ice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scattered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
