Use abandoned in a sentence
Sentences ending with abandoned
- The arrangement adopted when they started, that the officer prisoners should be kept separate from the rest, had long since been abandoned. [2]
- Some of Junot's wagons also had been captured or abandoned. [2]
- My dear General, this expanding and piling up of impedimenta has been, so far, almost our ruin, and will be our final ruin if it is not abandoned. [7]
- The project was therefore abandoned. [4]
- I understand that the ship is made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo; and so long as the ship is safe with the cargo, it shall not be abandoned. [7]
- This conclusion is the more trustworthy, as Broca formerly held a different view, which he has now abandoned. [1]
- At first he only grasped the fact that Philip d'Avranche was the husband of the woman he loved, and that she had been abandoned. [11]
- Noticing him, an officer said: "The town is being abandoned. [2]
- Whether feeling it necessary to make a sacrifice before abandoning the capital or guided by other, personal considerations, these generals seemed not to understand that this council could not alter the inevitable course of events and that Moscow was in effect already abandoned. [2]
- And yet the monarch's messengers seemed cheerful rather than depressed; for the eagle they were to bear to Pharaoh was ready to obey his behest, and they had feared that they would find his eyrie abandoned. [10]
Short sentences using abandoned
- This idea, however, he abandoned. [12]
- He abandoned Allopathia for Homoeopathia. [3]
- Moscow must be abandoned. [2]
Sentences containing abandoned two or more times
- Suddenly Stolphe laughed outright, a crackling, mirthless, ironical laugh; for it really was absurdity made sublime that this man, who had been abandoned by his wife, should now want to kill one who had abandoned her! [11]
- To be abandoned by one's King--yes, that is death, and death is much; but to be abandoned by Rome, to be abandoned by the Church! [5]
- They abandoned one another, abandoned all their heavy baggage, their artillery, and half their men, and fled, getting past the Russians by night by making semicircles to the right. [2]
- But to be abandoned, as Susan had abandoned them, and with such obvious intent, creates quite a different atmosphere. [9]
More example sentences with the word abandoned in them
- I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
- Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
- They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
- And he's clever with his hands he bought an old abandoned farmhouse in Silliston and made it all over himself until it looks as if one of our great-great-grandfathers had just stepped out of it to shoot an Indian only much prettier. [9]
- He deceived her with a mock marriage; after some months he brutally, abandoned her, and spurned her as if she were a contemptible thing; all the time he had a wife in New Orleans. [5]
- But never again will I cross this threshold uninvited, or enter a house where right is trodden underfoot, where defenceless innocence is insulted and abandoned to despair. [10]
- And Lady Gravesend whispered for a week afterwards that Delia Gasgoyne sang a wild love song in the most abandoned way with that colonial Belward. [11]
- Through the days, when the sun beat upon the awning with a tropical fierceness, when Monsieur Vigo abandoned himself to his siestas, I thought. [9]
- The result was what the reader has by this time guessed: the most magnificent idea that was ever conceived had to be abandoned, from sheer lack of a person with enterprise enough to carry it out. [5]
- The abandoned campfires were burning themselves out in the faint morning light. [2]
- They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs. [5]
- Mr. Tooting, as we know, had abandoned the law office of the Honourable Hilary Vane and was now engaged in travelling over the State, apparently in search of health. [9]
- The original conception was that the offender against the law should be punished, and that the punishment should be made to fit the crime, an 'opera bouffe' conception which has been abandoned in reasoning though not in practice. [4]
- Here and there was a house that had been half finished and then abandoned, or a shanty in which a couple of young married people were just beginning life. [4]
- We have abandoned Vilna and Vitebsk and shall abandon Drissa. [2]
- He was a vagabond Indian, abandoned yet self-contained, outcast yet gregarious. [11]
- I am as unhappy as the abandoned bird, for I have lost sight to-day of all that I belong to, and I am alone, and can never find them again. [10]
- Now, in June, two years and a month since Bickersteth had gone into the wilds, they looked down upon the goal of one at least--of the younger man who had triumphed in his quest up in these wilds abandoned centuries ago. [11]
- And the Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge, and pretend that they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the abandoned creature whom they denominate their standard-bearer. [5]
- I am ready to submit myself in all things to His will; but tell me, Michaud, how did you leave the army when it saw my ancient capital abandoned without a battle? [2]
- The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel's whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay. [2]
- I abandoned all thoughts of the law. [4]
- It was as though she intended to remain there, and had abandoned all intention of returning to the life which apparently she had once permanently and definitely chosen.... Bedloe Hubbell's campaign was another topic. [9]
- They said that this farce was the work of some abandoned joker, and was an insult to the whole community. [5]
- Any one of these three conditions would stave off recognition by foreign powers, until we had ourselves abandoned the attempt to reduce the South to obedience. [6]
- Then they abandoned themselves some moments to the unrestricted play of their apprehensions. [8]
- Instead of taking them to the goal of the journey, as he had promised, he had deserted them in a miserable tavern by the way-side, among rough, godless lansquenets, as the mother of Moses abandoned her babe. [10]
- But without corn, the work of fortifying and building had to be abandoned, and the settlers dispersed to provide victuals. [4]
- Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
- I cannot endure the thought of seeing her abandoned to his clutches, and I will not permit it to happen. [10]
- The people beyond the Pyrenees shall learn that, even for the brother, it is no sin, but a duty, to shorten the life of the brother who abandoned the holy Church. [10]
- The colony abandoned the pleasant Non-such and returned to the open air at West's Fort. [4]
- You have abandoned the most serious and sacred enterprise in the world as lightly as though it had been a piece of embroidery. [9]
- It is in the fall of 1607, just before his famous voyage up the Chickahominy, on which he departed December 10th--that he writes: "The President and Captain Arthur intended not long after to have abandoned the country, which project was curbed and suppressed by Smith. [4]
- During the night the dull indifference which she showed in the day abandoned her, and her attentive companion often heard her sobbing aloud. [10]
- Again and again the doubly desolate woman looked back toward the companion whom she had abandoned in her suffering until they reached Frankfort. [10]
- The fathers of the city had determined to seize the Glippers' abandoned dwellings and apply the property found in them to the benefit of the common cause. [10]
- The men of the abandoned colonies were never again heard of. [4]
- How was it that two guns were abandoned in the center? [2]
- The first was that the Honorable Heth Sutton had abandoned the Florizel cigars and had gone home to Clovelly. [9]
- Why was it that now she could never think of the lost and abandoned Romany life without thinking also of Jethro Fawe? [11]
- Some conversation showed that Mr. Prescott was contemplating the subject upon which Mr. Irving was engaged, and the latter instantly authorized Mr. Cogswell to say that he abandoned it. [4]
- Almost everybody admits that if it is abandoned England must sink to the position of a third-rate power like Holland. [4]
- For the postulate that everybody ought to be attractive cannot be abandoned for the sake of any system. [4]
- There was bitter talk within the gates that night, and many declared angrily that Colonel Clark had abandoned us. [9]
- The petition was tabled, but Clemens never abandoned his purpose and lived to see most of his dream fulfilled. [5]
- They had better, swallow this lie if they want to save their abandoned reptile carcasses the cowhiding they so richly deserve. [5]
- When he was strong enough to leave the sick-room and to ride and shoot once more, he abandoned himself more than ever to the pleasure of drinking, and lost every remnant of self-control. [10]
- Anatole had very soon abandoned his wife and, for a payment which he agreed to send to his father-in-law, had arranged to be free to pass himself off as a bachelor. [2]
- Beside a still smoking lime- kiln an abandoned fire was burning down into red coals. [11]
- As they walked slowly on, past the now abandoned paper-mills and the other human impertinences, the elemental turmoil increased, and they seemed entering a world the foundations of which were broken up. [4]
- He found the sick man in great anxiety, for he had waited until now for his son in vain, and feared that Hermas had met with some accident--or had abandoned him, and fled out into the world. [10]
- Neither mauser nor shrapnel nor maxim brought them down as they made their way to the abandoned gun beside which Stafford lay. [11]
- And she, when she heard the summons, abandoned a turkey on the spit, pitched her brats out of the door, seized the mare, and dashing through the gates at a gallop left me to make my way back afoot. [9]
- In front he saw our artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned their guns, were running toward him. [2]
- And the troops retired one more, last, day's march, and abandoned Moscow to the enemy. [2]
- The fiends would retire, pretending to have abandoned the field, only to swoop down again when least expected. [9]
- To give governmental protection to the property of persons who have abandoned it, and gone on a crusade to overthrow the same government, is absurd, if considered in the mere light of justice. [7]
- He was always persecuting the passengers with abstruse propositions framed in language that no man could understand, and they endured the exquisite torture a minute or two and then abandoned the field. [5]
- Alison took no part in the casual conversation that began when they reached the boulevard and Mr. Parr abandoned the trumpet, but lay back in silence and apparently with entire comfort in a corner of the limousine. [9]
- The canal abandoned, one red night fleet and transports swept around the bend and passed the city's heights, on a red river. [9]
- He was determined on an expedition to capture Fort Comfort, which had been abandoned by the great Company, and was now held by a great band of the Shunup Indians. [11]
- But everything was on a scale so vast that it was difficult to localize these petty incidents (big as they were in consequences), and the party soon abandoned history and geography for the enjoyment of the moment. [4]
- At the end of two years I found that the chicken farm had long ago been abandoned, and he had moved into Keokuk. [5]
- Notwithstanding the Ry of Rys' prohibition, there had drawn nearer and ever nearer to him, from the Romany world he had abandoned, many of his people, never, however, actually coming within his vision till the appearance of Jethro Fawe. [11]
- When she spoke of her approaching meeting with her lover, he asked whether she had entirely abandoned the teachings of Epicurus, who believed that death absolutely ended existence. [10]
- While I was not sorry you abandoned it, I should not be sorry if you had stuck to it and given it a trial. [5]
- This Union shall never be abandoned, unless the possibility of its existence shall cease to exist without the necessity of throwing passengers and cargo overboard. [7]
- Armies, ships, fortifications, navy yards, arsenals, military posts, and garrisons one after another were betrayed or abandoned to the insurgents. [7]
- How much then must the probability of fire be increased in an abandoned, wooden town where foreign troops are quartered. [2]
- The French found Moscow abandoned but with all the organizations of regular life, with diverse branches of commerce and craftsmanship, with luxury, and governmental and religious institutions. [2]
- Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee. [5]
- Honora proved of more interest, and Mrs. Holt abandoned the skylight. [9]
- I know that long ago you abandoned the teachings of Epicurus and the Stoa, and with an earnest aim before your eyes sought your own paths. [10]
- Beard abandoned his logworks and swung around with a snort of pain. [9]
- If he had known before that Oldring's Masked Rider was a woman his opinion would have been formed and he would have considered her abandoned. [13]
- The certainty that Kasana was wicked and faithless, which had so unexpectedly forced itself upon Ephraim, had suddenly turned his heart from her and startled him back into the right path which he had abandoned. [10]
- By this finding, Joan was guilty upon all the counts: she must renounce her errors and make satisfaction, or be abandoned to the secular arm for punishment. [5]
- But henna in itself seems to have certain qualities of viciousness in its brownish-red stain, and Dicky looked sufficiently abandoned. [11]
- Several times, in its progress, I was tempted to do as Adam did, who abandoned his garden on account of the weeds. [4]
- Though he knew it was coming, he did not till the last moment wholeheartedly believe that Moscow would be abandoned, and did not prepare for it. [2]
- His Lordship, sir, is the most abandoned rake in London, and that unmentionable crime of his but lately in the magazines--" "Yes, yes," my grandfather interrupted; "I have seen it. [9]
- He got hurt in the old Hal Clayton claim that was abandoned like the others, putting in a blast and not climbing out quick enough, though he scrambled the best he could. [5]
- Tears welled up in the Frenchwoman's eyes as she abandoned her charge. [9]
- I confess that I am harassed with the incomplete romances, that leave me, when the book is closed, as one might be on a waste plain at midnight, abandoned by his conductor, and without a lantern. [4]
- People began to hurry westward, a few had abandoned the sidewalk and were running; while other pedestrians, more timid, were equally concerned to turn and hasten in the opposite direction. [9]
- After that, that holiest of all sacred rivers will cease to be holy, and will be abandoned by the pilgrim for many centuries; how many, the wise men have not stated. [5]
- There sprang to Hodder's mind a sentence in a book he had recently read: "Our slums became filled with sick who need never have been sick; with derelicts who need never have been abandoned. [9]
- Those eyes of his, which had paid to his hostess a tender respect, snapped when they spoke to our heroine, and presently he boldly abandoned literature to declare that the fates alone had sent her to Silverdale at the time of his visit. [9]
- Pierre, who at his wife's command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. [2]
- He wrote to his sister: "Smolensk is being abandoned. [2]
- He has abandoned himself altogether to this mysticism" (Pierre could not tolerate mysticism in anyone now). [2]
- Alexander had given him this certainty; for when he had seen Korinna by the lake, her soul had long since abandoned its earthly tenement. [10]
- If Barine cursed her life there, she would still fare better than she, Iras, who during the past few nights had been on the brink of despair whenever she thought of the man who had disdained her love and abandoned her for another. [10]
- The conductor said he would send back a guard from the next station to take charge of the abandoned mail-bags, and we drove on. [5]
- Yet even now he would not have abandoned it at any price; the joy of creation compensated him richly for suffering and disappointment. [10]
- Before they had had time to secure quarters the soldiers ran out into the streets to see the city and, hearing that everything had been abandoned, rushed to places where valuables were to be had for the taking. [2]
- His burning lips had rested fervently on her hand, but it was only for an instant that she abandoned herself to the violent agitation that mastered her. [10]
- Now that he had grown older and abandoned the wild revelry of that period in favour of truth and steadfastness, he quietly related everything she desired to know. [10]
- What if Paulus had abandoned her, and had left her to her fate? [10]
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