Use battered in a sentence
Sentences ending with battered
- It was a wild chance, but he got there badly battered. [11]
- And the man who had ruined her life and had poisoned her true spirit was come back broken and battered. [11]
- This matter warmed up into a quarrel; then into a fight; and each man got pretty badly battered. [5]
- He got there terribly battered. [11]
- The Irishman came out of the tangle of battle with a wild kind of light in his eye, his beard all torn, and face battered. [11]
- I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. [5]
More example sentences with the word battered in them
- I said I would if I had thought of it--which was true --but that I was so battered by that man that all my wit was knocked out of me--and so forth and so on, and got myself away, still mumbling. [5]
- This tarnished gold will never brighten, these battered covers will stand no more wear and tear; close them, and leave them to the spider and the book-worm. [6]
- His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over to the godmother, Princess Mary. [2]
- The white tent was carried away, but the cannon-balls flew over or merely battered the solid rock, the shells were thrown beyond, and no harm was done. [11]
- A long-nosed, mediaeval-looking waiter was hovering about, one of those bizarre, battered creatures who have long exhausted the surprises of life, presiding over this amazing situation with all the sang froid of a family butler. [9]
- You have seen us go to sea, a cloud of sail--and the flag at the peak; and you see us now, chartless, adrift--derelicts; battered, water-logged, our sails a ruck of rags, our pride gone. [5]
- George gazed speechless upon the battered and grotesque nightmare before him for the space of thirty seconds, and then wilted to the floor and went into convulsions. [5]
- Mr. Bentley walked up the steps, and took off his hat as he went through the battered doorway. [9]
- They hoisted skulls up in the same way and banged and battered them. [5]
- What happiness remained to her now of a battered life stood squarely in the way of her son's happiness. [9]
- For a moment they had thought him inconsiderate to come among them in this crisis, for he was no longer of their scheme of things, and must be counted out, a beaten, battered, blind bankrupt. [11]
- If he does, there comes on a loathing for it which is intense, so that the sight of the old battered manuscript is as bad as sea-sickness. [6]
- I've been with them, I marched up here with them from the Clarendon when they battered in the gates and smashed your windows--and I wanted to smash your windows, too, to blow up your mill. [9]
- Sebastopol is probably the worst battered town in Russia or any where else. [5]
- Again and again the two men seemed to sink beneath the sea, and again and again they came to the surface and battled further, torn, battered, and bloody, but not beaten. [11]
- In the diningroom the metal lamp, brightly polished, was burning as usual, its light falling on the chequered red table-cloth, on her father's empty chair, on that somewhat battered heirloom, the horsehair sofa. [9]
- It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
- To add to the danger and inconvenience, we were constantly meeting returning tourists on foot and horseback, and as constantly being crowded and battered by ascending tourists who were in a hurry and wanted to get by. [5]
- In the Homes the battered veterans speak mainly of one thing; and in the monotony of their spent lives develop whimseys and rights and wrongs, patriotic ardors and criticisms on their singular fate, which are original in their character in our society. [4]
- No matter about the battered old pieces: he had found out, at any rate, that Maurice must have money and could be extravagant, or what he himself considered so; also that he was familiar with ancient coins. [6]
- The battered house, the absence of barn or stable or garden, or any token of thrift or energy, marked the man as an excrescence in this theatre of hope and fruitful toil. [11]
- This was long sweet grass touching his face, making a couch like down for the battered, wearied body. [11]
- However, it was still sound, that was a comfort, it was not battered in the least; the baggagemen seemed to be conscientiously careful, in Germany, of the baggage entrusted to their hands. [5]
- He heard them singing, he felt the divine notes in his battered soul; he tried to weep for the hopeless joy of it; but the tears came no higher than his throat. [11]
- Her friends, indeed, said that she had not the least care for her personal appearance, and unless she was watched, she was sure to go out in her shabbiest gown and most battered hat. [4]
- Would he emerge safe and successful, or be carried away by some strong undercurrent, be battered on unseen rocks? [11]
- Roses overflow the retaining walls and the battered and mossy stone urn on the gate-post, in pink and yellow cataracts, exactly as they do on the drop-curtains in the theaters. [5]
- It was stone, reddish stone, and its nose and ears battered, and that give it an abused look, and you felt sorrier for it for that. [5]
- Then came the priest, for Iberville, battered as he was, would not stir until the abbe had gone up--a stout strain on the rope. [11]
- A battered tin platter, a knife and fork, and a tin pint cup, were at each man's place, and the driver had a queens-ware saucer that had seen better days. [5]
- His pistol flung out, a shot was fired, and the knife dropped from the battered fingers of Nick Swaine. [11]
- The battered remnant of the marble monument has been removed to the National Cemetery. [5]
- Just a rubbish-pile of battered corpses and a barrel or two of busted hardware. [5]
- You shall be nourished well like me, and I shall look a battered hulk like you. [11]
- So he had left the highroad, the beaten way of salvation many others had deserted, had flung off his spectacles, had plunged into reality, to be scratched and battered, to lose his way. [9]
- Somehow it was impressive, after so much browsing among massive and battered and decaying fanes that rest upon ruins, and those ruins upon still other ruins, and those upon still others again. [5]
- He took out his battered coppers, and showed them to Maurice. [6]
- Boats containing the heavy ammunition and a regiment of conscripts were battered upon the rocks, and hundreds of the invaders found an unquiet grave upon the Banc des Violets. [11]
- But, before they had reached the corner of the lane, the man came running after them, and, pressing her hand, left something in it--two old, battered, smoke-encrusted penny pieces. [12]
- This poor woman had been stoned until she hardly looked human, she was so battered and bloody. [5]
- Look at this gravestone, all battered up. [5]
- There was a gas stove at one side, a linoleum-covered table in the centre, littered with bottles, plates, and pitchers, a bed and chairs which had known better days, new obviously bruised and battered by many enforced movings. [9]
- And there were fruit trees in that yard"--he pointed with his stick to a littered sun parched plot adjoining a battered mansion--"all pink and white with blossoms in the spring. [9]
- As for the foundlings like my Hedericus, they go among their peers; it is a pleasure to take them, from the dusty stall where they were elbowed by plebeian school-books and battered odd volumes, and give them Alduses and Elzevirs for companions. [6]
- The carronades, good for only a few discharges, soon left her to the fury of her assailant, and presently the Dorset was no better than a battered raisin-box. [11]
- Here one thing follows so close on another, and in this house I feel so battered and storm-tossed, that I hardly know myself. [10]
- Farther off, the face of a battered sphinx stared with unheeding look into the vast sea and sky beyond. [11]
- A gaunt, shackly country lout six feet high, in battered gray slouched hat with wide brim, and old resin-colored breeches, had on a hideous brand-new woolen coat which was imitation tiger skin wavy broad stripes of dazzling yellow and deep brown. [5]
- Fort Sumter is certainly battered down and utterly useless to the enemy, and it is believed here, but not entirely certain, that both Sumter and Fort Wagner are occupied by our forces. [7]
- Think--in this battered Caravanserai, Whose Portals open stand all Night and Day, How Microbe after Microbe with his Pomp Arrives unasked, and comes to stay. [5]
- A regiment of brown and battered soldiers had arrived home from Algiers, and I judged they got thirsty on the way. [5]
- The bridge rocked beneath the weight of their charge, they battered at the great gates, they ran along the snow-filled tracks by the wall of the mill. [9]
- He turned his battered, blood-stained face to the bridge for an instant, and, with a wave of the hand and a sharp look towards the rapids below, once more sprang out. [11]
- Curses, hands that battered and tore at him, the doorway reached, and then a blow on the head and--falling, falling, falling, and distant noises growing more distant, and suddenly and sweetly--absolute silence. [11]
- There is nothing awe-inspiring in the brown stone figure, battered and cracked, that stands at one corner of the bridge, over the chasm at the entrance of the city. [4]
- The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. [5]
- Again they turned at the Palace wall, and, gathering impetus, they rode at the detached and battered segments of the miserable horde, and once more cut them down, then furiously galloped towards the Residency. [11]
- The lictors battered at the door and as no one opened it, they forced it with the help of the soldiers in order to set a guard in the beleaguered house, and protect it against the raging mob. [10]
- I brought up at last in an unoccupied corner, very much battered and bruised and sore, but glad enough to be let alone for a little while. [5]
- She had laid aside the dusty walking-dress, the business-jacket, the ugly little hat of felt, the battered reticule. [4]
- Bruised and battered as he was, he had a moment's elation, for he had hidden his tracks. [13]
- It is battered and scarred in every direction, and stained and discolored by time, and Napoleon's horses kicked the legs off most the disciples when they (the horses, not the disciples,) were stabled there more than half a century ago. [5]
- Many a bruised and battered English wife has since had occasion to deplore that cruel achievement of sentimental "humanity. [5]
- The houses had all been solid, dressed stone structures; most of them were ploughed through and through by cannon balls--unroofed and sliced down from eaves to foundation--and now a row of them, half a mile long, looks merely like an endless procession of battered chimneys. [5]
- It lay there all battered to pulp; and all about were the evidences of a terrific fight. [5]
- The church has a hundred and seventy pillars in it, each a single piece, and all of costly marbles of various kinds, but they came from ancient temples at Baalbec, Heliopolis, Athens and Ephesus, and are battered, ugly and repulsive. [5]
- Houses where, as a hostage, I had dined, were battered and broken; public buildings were shapeless masses, and dogs and thieves prowled among the ruins. [11]
- It came with a dull, sickening thud to the ground, and Phil Boldrick--Phil Boldrick's broken, battered body--was thrown out. [11]
- He might be a battered, wretched beggar picked up in the high-road, and I rejoice truly to think that Ann is within the shelter of her bed and escapes the sight. [10]
- The village has a battered little temple or two, big enough to hold an idol, and with custom enough to fat-up a priest and keep him comfortable. [5]
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