When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza and in an untenanted portion of the great dead city I had little trouble in reaching the hills beyond.
There was no living being found; and the masses of yawning darkness exhibited by the untenanted rooms, seemed a fit residence for the genius of romance.
Dead Men Tell No Tales," a short story by Ida Cochran Haughton, is a ghastly and gruesome anecdote of the untenanted clay; related by a village dressmaker.
Cobwebs in a profusion never before seen by me were spun everywhere, and huge bats flapped their bony and uncanny wings on all sides of the otherwise untenanted gloom.
For centuries her splendid forests, her grand mountains and picturesque valleys remained untenanted by big game.
Our vast domains of wooded mountains, hills and valleys lie practically untenanted by big game, save in a few exceptional spots.
Then all these traces of occupation were left behind, and the travelers were alone in the untenanted heart of the island, where the only sounds audible were the humming of insects in the sunlight and the falling of the streams.
Houses that are untenanted are seldom opened, and thus collect much filth and foul, damp, pernicious vapours.
As we gazed at untenanted shelves and empty, hatefully tidy corners, perhaps for the first time for long we began to do them a tardy justice.
Up and down the inland basin bronzed horsemen sweep over the untenanted regions, locating new settlements.
Yes, thousands of yet untenanted graves yawn for the future victims of these mechanical devices.
As he reached the door-way leading out on to the battlements, he stood in the gloomy interior, and looked along the roof of the untenanted portion towards the north-west tower, wondering what Master Pawson was doing.
Thinking he might as well go a little higher, he mounted the spiral instead of descending, the dry elm twigs brought in by the jackdaws which made the untenanted corners their home crackling again beneath his feet.
There is a further power given to the Commissioners to acquire compulsorily untenanted lands.
Later, when the factory era became thoroughly established, this lone little mill was left high and dry by the tide that swept toward the larger centers and it stood untenanted for years.
Just as pickers comb the back-country for antiques, a related group search for untenanted old houses.
Presently, as he turned a corner and shot his hearse into a dismal ditch between two long rows of towering, untenanted buildings, the gay gondolier began to sing, true to the traditions of his race.
Above are two rows of canopied niches, which, however they were originally occupied, have for long been untenanted until quite recently.
Down each side areuntenanted niches, and the openings of the tracery show some beautiful and elaborate iron-work, dating from the Renaissance.
My mind seemed like some untenanted recess in the unfathomable depths below.
Hearing no sound whatever, he rose up slowly, and with an "Ugh" of disappointment, strode carelessly across the silent and untenanted place of encampment.
But a vast untenanted land stretched to the north of them.
They lay silent and untenanted in the glare of the African day.
The angry clouds had dropped lower on the moors; a few sheep beside the glimmering stone trough showed dimly white; the night wind was sighing through the untenanted valley and the scanty branches of the thorn.
As he thought of his Greek texts and his untenanted Oxford rooms, he had the same sort of craving that an opium-eater has cut off from his drugs.
The glittering floor stretched away for acres of untenanted expanse, with not a skater to explore those dark mysterious coves, or strike across the slanting sunlight poured from clefts in the impendent hills.
It is a most hideous place, like a pit in Dante's Hell, disused for some unexplained reason, and left untenanted by fiends.
The noonday light was shining on the distant river; the road was untraveled and untenanted for miles together, except by the Northern rider and his Southern steed.
It was a lovely day, and there was the peacefulness of Sunday over the landscape, the wide untenanted fields, the woods near and far, and the distant hills.
Tarzan of the Apes loved unfettered freedom, and now that these two were safely off his hands, he felt that he could continue upon his journey toward the west coast and the long-untenanted cabin of his dead father.
The interior of the tunnel was not so dark but that the ape-man could readily see that it was untenanted at present.
Milk and eggs they had none to offer us; and their beds were piles of straw on the ground, seldom clean, never untenanted by fleas.
That vast noble pile, untenanted and sacked, symbolized the vanished monarchy of France.
She felt like a castaway on a desert, and there was something of the wilderness in the immensity of the drawing-room with its crowds of untenanted divans and of empty chairs drawn into groups as the departed guests had left them.
Inside, it was a vast cathedral of untenanted pews.
With the mobs pouring in, it would not beuntenanted long.
If, as it seemed, Reckitt and Forbes had taken unlawful possession of an untenanted house, then it was probable they would not return to get rid of my remains.
I was enticed to an untenanted house in Bayswater, and after a cheque for a thousand pounds had been obtained from me by a trick, I narrowly escaped death by a devilish device.
I suppose I must have cut a sorry figure, dishevelled as I was by my night's weird experience, and covered with the dust of that untenanted house.
