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- Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! [5]
- I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. [5]
- As the population then increased, and consequently the number of patients, space was wanting in which to house them, for the dilapidated Poor-house--whither they were carried--was no longer large enough to accommodate them all. [10]
- Like the house, the man seemed dilapidated also: a slovenly, ill-dressed, demoralised figure he looked, even with his face covered. [11]
- This was at the extreme southern end, and here some thirty Gentile families lived in huts and shacks and log-cabins and several dilapidated cottages. [13]
- Whitie still guarded the dilapidated rabbit, and Ring slept near by under a spruce. [13]
- I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
- She saw him strike with his spurs, and in a twinkling horse and rider had passed over the dilapidated remains of a fence and were flying down the hard clay road, disappearing into a dip. [9]
- Down by the stream was a dilapidated building which served for a hemp warehouse, and a shaky wharf extended out from it, into the water. [5]
- He ascribes the present dilapidated condition of Stonehenge to the operation of the general deluge; for, he adds, 'to suppose it to be the work of any people since the flood is entirely monstrous. [6]
- Finally, I searched out the least dilapidated of last year's illustrated papers that littered the foul center-table, and conned their unjustifiable misrepresentations of old forgotten events. [5]
- I remember one of these pictures: A most dilapidated tramp is ruefully contemplating some coins which lie in his open palm. [5]
- The last effort of decayed fortune is expended in smoothing its dilapidated castor. [6]
- A fire was made up in the dilapidated brick stove. [2]
- I heard him lecture once, and have had his image with me ever since as that of an old, worn-out man,--a venerable but dilapidated relic of an effete antiquity. [6]
- There was interest in this beetling border, too, for it was honey-combed with quaint caves and arches and tunnels, and had a rude semblance of the dilapidated architecture of ruined keeps and castles rising out of the restless sea. [5]
- The city was half burned down during the war, and had emerged from it in a dilapidated condition. [4]
- There was nothing for us to do in Samaria but buy handfuls of old Roman coins at a franc a dozen, and look at a dilapidated church of the Crusaders and a vault in it which once contained the body of John the Baptist. [5]
- We left our donkeys to eat thistles in front, while we climbed up some dilapidated steps, and entered the crumbling hall. [4]
- Look at poor cropped and dilapidated "Baalbec," and weep for the sentiment that has been wasted upon the Selims of romance! [5]
- It had once been a stately building, but now every part of it seemed to be going to ruin except the central portion, which presented a less dilapidated appearance than the sorely damaged, utterly neglected side wings. [10]
- Ilium itself, seen at a glance, was old enough to be dilapidated, and if it had gained anything by being made a wood and water station of the new railroad, it was only a new sort of grime and rawness. [5]
- Broken and dilapidated as they were, they yet retained their ancient form, and something of their ancient aspect. [12]
- It was old, and had been left in a somewhat dilapidated and disorderly condition by the tenants who had lived in the part which Maurice now occupied. [6]
- And in what a condition did Titianus and Pontius find this now dilapidated and plundered scene of former magnificence--the sweat pouring from their foreheads with their exertions as they inspected and sketched, questioned and made notes of it all. [10]
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