"Deserted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suffered from a shower of warm water. This, though colder, was even more formidable. Vanquished by the forces of nature, Pietro shouldered his instrument and fled incontinently. Phil might come out now, if he chose. His enemy had deserted his post, ...
— Phil the Fiddler • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... entitled "The Rover Boys on Land and Sea," I related how Sam, Tom, and Dick were carried off to sea during a violent storm, in company with Dora Stanhope, already mentioned, and her two cousins, Nellie and Grace Laning, two particular friends of Tom and Sam. The whole party was cast away on a deserted island, and had much trouble with Dan Baxter, who joined some sailor mutineers. Our friends were finally rescued by a United States warship which chanced to pass that way and see ...
— The Rover Boys on the River - The Search for the Missing Houseboat • Arthur Winfield
... gladden his eyes with a sight of the familiar mace, he would find himself in the midst of a material civilisation more different from that of his day, than that of the seventeenth was from that of the first century. And if Lord Brouncker's [38] native sagacity had not deserted his ghost, he would need no long reflection to discover that all these great ships, these railways, these telegraphs, these factories, these printing-presses, without which the whole fabric of modern ...
— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
... in the deserted rooms," she thought. And she abandoned for the present her purpose ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... deserted, save for the skinny little freckle-faced devil, who sat perched on a high stool, gazing wistfully ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
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