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Sentences starting with scattered

Scattered here and there upon this shelf were clumps of aspens, and he walked through them into a glade that surpassed in beauty and adaptability for a wild home, any place he had ever seen. [13]
Scattered here and there over the rocks, like conies, are peasants, tending a few lean cattle, and digging grasses from the crevices. [4]
Scattered all about the mighty monolith were sphinxes of noble countenance, carved out of Egyptian granite as hard as blue steel, and whose shapely features the wear of five thousand years had failed to mark or mar. [5]
Scattered and disorderly groups of men swayed here and there, and just before the entrance of the Palace was a wailing group, by which stood two priests with their yellow robes and bare shoulders, speaking to them. [11]

Sentences ending with scattered

A mounted policeman trotted past her as she crossed a gravel drive, and on the tree-flecked stretches, which lately had been empty as Eden, human figures were scattered. [9]
The Rhodian said that the fleet was scattered. [10]
Pierre's wanderings took place in a period when civilization had made but scant marks upon the broad bosom of the prairie land, and towns and villages were few and far scattered. [11]
The cities of London and Westminster lay along the north bank in what seemed an endless stretch; on the south side of the Thames the houses were more scattered. [4]
At last these became scattered. [9]
He is dead and gone now and his family scattered. [9]

Short sentences using scattered

Rocks scattered about,--Stonehenge-like monoliths. [6]

More example sentences with the word scattered in them

Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
He was the worst scattered of men. [5]
Rosy-fingered morn touched with magic colour the masts and scattered sails of the ships upon the great river, and spires and towers quivered with rainbow light. [11]
His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
Slender date-palms covered with golden fruit were scattered in every direction over the fields, which were thoroughly irrigated by means of canals and ditches. [10]
They scattered, screaming with delight, and she after them. [9]
The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
There were some who scattered as he drew near, and of the less timorous spirits that remained only a few raised dark, sullen glances to encounter his, which was unflinching, passionately contemptuous. [9]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
And one day, when a north wind had scattered the smoke and swept the sky, Howard followed her up the paths to the ridge's crest, where she stood like a Victory, her garments blowing, gazing off over the mighty billows to the westward. [9]
Weathered grey cottages were scattered over the landscape, and dark copses of cedars, while oceanward the eye was caught by the gleam of a lighthouse or a lonely sail. [9]
The cattlemen's stations were scattered over that profound wilderness miles and miles apart--at each station half a dozen persons. [5]
All about me were gray heaps of ashes, and bones of deer and elk and buffalo scattered, some picked clean, some with the meat and hide sticking to them. [9]
Many of them were connected by blood with more fortunate parishioners, but economic pressure had scattered them throughout new neighbourhoods and suburbs. [9]
Mainly we were well scattered, but when Paris fell we happened to be together. [5]
Factories, bridges, beflagged week-end resorts, ramshackle houses, and blocks of new buildings were scattered here and there. [9]
In our time we have organized that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
In our time we have organised that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
But while I was sick, Adler's things had been sold and scattered, all except a few old letters, and some odds and ends of no value. [5]
The way things was scattered about we reckoned the people left in a hurry, and warn't fixed so as to carry off most of their stuff. [5]
Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves. [2]
But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
Why, look here--Shakespeare walked backwards before that tailor from Tennessee, and scattered flowers for him to walk on, and Homer stood behind his chair and waited on him at the banquet. [5]
The various words used in building them are in the dictionary, but in a very scattered condition; so you can hunt the materials out, one by one, and get at the meaning at last, but it is a tedious and harassing business. [5]
In part scattered upon the ground at the feet of the two men, and in part jumbled together in a long flat box, were the other persons of the Drama. [12]
When I got up to see what had happened, the robin was scattered about under the tree in more than a thousand pieces, no one of which was big enough to enable a naturalist to decide from it to what species it belonged. [4]
We are cut up into parties of six or eight, and by this time are scattered far and wide. [5]
Shortly afterward the tuba sounded to assemble the plunderers still scattered about Seleukus's house, and Nemesianus saw the men marching in small companies into the great hall. [10]
It was in truth a dismal sight,--the shapeless timbers, the corn, planted with such care, choked with weeds, and the poor utensils of the little family scattered and broken before the door-sill. [9]
When we came to the rendezvous, where picnic parties generally feasted, we found a fire still smoking and the remnants of a lunch scattered about. [11]
His pipe fell to the floor, and the ashes scattered on the boards and lay glowing there. [9]
There was nothing to oppose their mass, nothing but a few weak battalions of British soldiers scattered about India, a force not worth speaking of. [5]
It scattered, only to collect again when the soldiers had passed on. [9]
This he repeated, till it seemed like a mass of brains, while the others, as quick as possible, cut him into very small pieces, which they then scattered in every direction. [5]
By twos, by threes, by tens, men from Manitou came sauntering across the bridge into Lebanon, until a goodly number were scattered at different points through the town. [11]
There were some thousands of wounded in the place, he told me, scattered about everywhere. [6]
The owner of this store had many others scattered about in this foreign country: at Vincennes, at St. Louis, where he resided, at Cahokia. [9]
The air was thick with tobacco-smoke, trays were scattered about, laden with stubs of cigars and ashes, and empty and half-filled glasses were everywhere. [11]
But even after they shall have acquired this curse it will still be a good country to go to for a vacation, for there are charming little islets scattered about the inclosed sea where one could live secure from interruption. [5]
Carnations, lilies of the valley, geraniums even--such were the offerings scattered loosely on the lid until a woman came with a mass of white roses that filled the room with their fragrance,--a woman with burnished red hair. [9]
And back of the town, far around and abroad over the miles of level campagna, were scattered rows, and circles, and clusters of lights, all glowing like so many gems, and marking where a score of villages were sleeping. [5]
He had sown the storm, it was but just that he should reap the whirlwind; he had scattered thistles, could he expect to gather grapes? [11]
The first of the scattered fleet of Gates and Somers came in on the 11th, and the rest straggled along during the three or four days following. [4]
The resources of the Public Library of the place and his own private collection were put in requisition to furnish him the singular and widely scattered facts of which he was in search. [6]
The beautiful avenue, the open spaces with scattered trees here and there, made this a most delightful excursion. [6]
Mr. Bernard, in the mean time, had been getting, first his senses, and then some few of his scattered wits, a little together. [6]
Through the glasses, the little fountains scattered about looked very beautiful. [5]
Every detective of the large force scattered over this huge extent of country sent his hourly report, and each and every one of them had a clue, and was shadowing something, and was hot upon the heels of it. [5]
In one corner, the hottest that the day saw, Rudyard and Barry Whalen and a scattered handful of men threw themselves upon a greatly larger number of the enemy. [11]
Shrieking with fear, the few persons who were in the street besides the soldiers, that were everywhere present, scattered before the huge, terrified animals. [10]
The stillness of the evening was only interrupted by a few scattered notes of bells, the finale of the mighty peal by which the warder had just been trying to disperse the storm. [10]
In five minutes the crowd had scattered, and the Lavilettes and Mr. Ferrol returned to the house. [11]
A table in the corner, where Lula Chandos had insisted on playing bridge, was covered with scattered cards and some bills, a decanter of whiskey, two soda bottles, and two glasses. [9]
He can see the broad green Campagna, stretching away toward the mountains, with its scattered arches and broken aqueducts of the olden time, so picturesque in their gray ruin, and so daintily festooned with vines. [5]
It is believed that it stands upon the site of what must have been, ages ago, a city of considerable architectural pretensions, judging by the fine porphyry pillars that are scattered through Tiberias and down the lake shore southward. [5]
I went on talking to the Intendant, while some of the guests rose and scattered about the rooms, at tables, to play picquet, the jesting on our cause and the scorn of myself abating not at all. [11]
Others say that such a definition is nonsense; that a church is an organization, and the scattered good folks are no organization at all. [6]
After a short stop we started, and soon came to a section where there were many open fields and cabins thickly scattered about. [5]
Fifty proofs of steel engravings and lithographs were scattered around, too. [5]
I had scattered some branch schools secretly about the kingdom, and they were doing very well. [5]
The courage and skill of the leader were all in vain; the vast multitude of which he was captain was made up of over many parts, all unlike, and each with its own chief; and the fury of the heretics scattered them abroad. [10]
It was half-past six when I awoke and went to the window, relieved to find that the sun had scattered my morbid fancies with the darkness; and I speculated, as I dressed, whether the thing called conscience were not, after all, a matter of nerves. [9]
He had a sinking fear that they might meet Jethro there, but only a few big-boned countrymen were scattered about, attended by sleepy waitresses. [9]
They were first scattered, then two of them went down, another was so disabled that she had to be turned back to the port they had left, and the remaining two were separated, so that their only course was to return to port also. [11]
Then the warriors scattered, the fire was lighted on every hearth, the plan of battle was discussed, some were sent out to reconnoitre, others kept to defend the citadel. [10]
Our people are scattered to the four winds, and to hunt them up now. [10]
It has already scattered to the four winds many a well-considered plan of the wisest heads, and an Iras could never be more fatal to statecraft than just at the present moment, had not Fate already uttered the final verdict. [10]
A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter. [2]
The great paddles scattered the brow waters with white foam, and the Judge voiced his thoughts. [9]
The band had scattered so as not to afford such a broad mark for bullets. [13]
The navy was scattered in distant seas, leaving but a very small part of it within the immediate reach of the government. [7]
The members were scattered far and wide through the seats, like an army in open order, listening in silence to the droning voice of the clerk. [9]
Bunches of scattered sage covered the center of the canyon, and among these Venters threaded his way with the step of an Indian. [13]
There are many roads scattered about the Union that do a prodigious passenger business. [5]
We scattered to right and left. [9]
Clouds had indeed rested on Bremerton's crests, but beneficent clouds, always scattered by the sun. [9]
There were also remnants of furniture and pieces of garments scattered about. [4]
Ulrich stooped and raised him; his men surrounded him, and the Turks were scattered, as the tempest sweeps clouds from the mountain. [10]
The village was quieting down, the excited habitants had scattered to their homes. [11]
Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow. [2]
The morning sun poured in through the south windows and was scattered by the silver on the sideboard. [9]
There were stagnant ponds in the streets, here and there, and a dozen rude scows were scattered about, lying aground wherever they happened to have been when the waters drained off and people could do their visiting and shopping on foot once more. [5]
He scattered the pieces of the letter at his feet. [11]
He saw the people in scattered groups, looking more homeless than if they had no homes. [11]
With what infinite pains were the pedigree and possessions of the Brice family pieced together that day by the scattered residents from Puritan-land in the City of St. Louis. [9]
Janet sought for others, but they had ceased coming; only the scattered, prowling picketers remained. [9]
There are fifteen or twenty figures scattered here and there, with books, but they cannot keep their attention on their reading--they offer the books to others, but no one wishes to read, now. [5]
There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy except a few scattered skirmishers. [2]
As I hurried on I saw that the lights usually set on the banks of the river were scattered through the town. [11]
From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human foetus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life. [1]
As the notes of the verse died away the answer came from other voices in deep, appealing antiphonal: "He hath showed strength with His arm, He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. [11]
In the middle of the Stanley Street bridge she stopped to lean against the wet rail; the mill lights were scattered, dancing points of fire over the invisible swift waters, and she raised her eyes presently to the lights themselves, seeking one unconsciously--Ditmar's! [9]
Unless the word of the Ry of Rys is good against breaking, then the Romanys are no more than scattered leaves at the will of the wind. [11]
Since the Organization of the government, Congress has enacted some 5000 acts and joint resolutions, which fill more than 6000 closely printed pages and are scattered through many volumes. [7]
The aged eyes, of the Emperor's watchful companion, to whom up to the close of the repast he addressed only a few scattered words, also detected something else. [10]
The summer vacation of the Corinna Institute had now arrived, and the young ladies had scattered to their homes. [6]
On those shreds of papyrus scattered over the floor she confessed she was not able to accede to his wishes, because she had already given her faith to another before she ever saw Caracalla. [10]
You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen! [2]
After a couple of minutes he said, "There, that will do," and the oval broke and came crashing down, and the balls scattered abroad and rolled every whither. [5]
There were scores of little camps scattered over Missouri where the same thing was happening. [5]

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