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  • Due to rules violations, the NCAA vacated the team's championship and victories of the year.
  • The vote forced her to vacate her position as chairperson of the committee.
  • Mother and daughter vacated the cemetery and made their way toward the next train to Munich.   (source)
    vacated = left
  • He knelt there patiently and waited until every last little cricket had vacated the box.   (source)
  • But even if he had known about these cabins, they wouldn't have delivered McCandless from harm: At some point after mid-April, when the last of the cabins was vacated as the spring thaw made dog mushing and snow-machine travel problematic, somebody broke into all three cabins and vandalized them extensively.   (source)
    vacated = moved out of
  • Atticus picked up the Mobile Press and sat down in the rocking chair Jem had vacated.   (source)
    vacated = gotten out of
  • He slides into the vacated chair and waits for the man to disappear before speaking again.   (source)
    vacated = emptied
  • I wonder what student left to vacate my position?   (source)
    vacate = leave a place, job or position previously occupied
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  • They vacated the lower court's ruling.
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  • I had an image of myself, during lonely nights, holding one of Walter's vacated, leathery hands: it would be a companion of sorts.†   (source)
  • Another girl is pushed into her vacated place.†   (source)
  • In some other world the child would already have begun to vacate him from his life.†   (source)
  • To Harry's displeasure, Percy now took Padma's vacated seat.†   (source)
  • Joe's landlords asked him to vacate the premises at once, not so much because of the fire but because Joe had never paid them any rent.†   (source)
  • If you do not announce your intentions, we will assume you have vacated your cabin or died a horrible death.†   (source)
  • By June, however, the Nazis were past the nicety of asking for volunteers; instead, they demanded that all "nonessential" Jews, which meant mainly the elderly and those without jobs, vacate their apartments and leave on the transports.†   (source)
  • At the last recess, when one of the boys wouldn't vacate the swing, I bit him on the arm and drew blood.†   (source)
  • The air had turned cold, and Celaena's skin prickled as his warmth vacated her body.†   (source)
  • People started getting up, so we had to vacate the verandah.†   (source)
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  • Owen had met Mr. White outside Archie Thorndike's office; Thorny introduced the candidate to The Voice and told them he would, as usual, vacate his office in order for them to be alone for Owen's interview.†   (source)
  • So Ma Leela said, If you are sure you are going to go through with vacating your body, I'd like to take it over."†   (source)
  • There could be no resistance as she filled their vacated minds.†   (source)
  • Not every apartment we saw had been vacated for reasons of tragedy, as I somehow believed.†   (source)
  • For this, our third night in the village, I decided to escape the noxious smudge by moving into a tent, pitched just outside, that Rob and Mike had vacated when they went to Base Camp.†   (source)
  • Thus Willow Marks's early procedure, and the graffiti scrawled on her house; thus the fact that Chelsea Bronson was kicked out of school after allegedly being found breaking curfew with a boy from Spencer, and her parents were mysteriously fired, and her whole family was forced to vacate their house.†   (source)
  • One day we set up inside a small office building that had been vacated some time before.†   (source)
  • We did find a house right away, recently vacated by a teacher's family who've left for Angola.†   (source)
  • He checked in, then ran back to Dixie Homes and hid inside the place she'd vacated.†   (source)
  • "Sit here, honey," the woman said, indicating the chair he'd vacated to help her.†   (source)
  • The cot had been vacated and I moved shakily toward it, trying not to sneeze or breathe as I squeezed past my cellmates.†   (source)
  • Having forgotten why I was standing there in the first place, I walk toward the seat behind Jody,the one Brittain seems about to vacate.†   (source)
  • When Comrade Pillai arrived, he was ushered into the seat that Baby Kochamma had only recently vacated.†   (source)
  • The flat was empty when I got back, it had the feeling of a place just vacated, as though I'd just missed Cathy, but the note on the counter said she was going out for lunch with Damien in Henley and that she wouldn't be back until Sunday night.†   (source)
  • I was told to vacate my rooms before nightfall.†   (source)
  • It is therefore safer to assume that all those who do not support her have already vacated Erudite headquarters.†   (source)
  • It was Noelle Hawthorne, entering the same space Shawna had just vacated.†   (source)
  • Its shock wave tumbled chips off the rock ledge they had vacated.†   (source)
  • They heard helicopters and more shooting and announcements to peacefully vacate the area made over speakers so powerful that they shook the floor, and they saw through the gap between mattress and window thousands of leaflets dropping from the sky, and after a while they saw smoke and smelled burning, and then it was quiet, but the smoke and the smell lasted a long time, particularly the smell, lingering even when the wind direction changed.†   (source)
  • By the end of the month this location has to be vacated.†   (source)
  • The junior students who were moving into the vacating classes' chairs were tradition-bound to show their talents for leadership and management.†   (source)
  • Others took their places at the stove the moment any were vacated.†   (source)
  • Above, in the vacated room, police found her shoes, a moneyless purse, an empty whiskey bottle.†   (source)
  • After I step out of her car, I pull out Colin's picture from my back pocket and toss it on the seat I just vacated.†   (source)
  • Sita, the distinguished Indian campaigner who had led our defiance at Boksburg in 1952, had just been convicted by a Pretoria magistrate for refusing to vacate his house—the house he had lived in for more than forty years—which was in a precinct that had been proclaimed "white" in terms of the Group Areas Act.†   (source)
  • He accompanies her to car 48 and makes August vacate while she goes inside.†   (source)
  • The company vacated the building afterward, and to this day it stands empty.†   (source)
  • As they went down the stairs another contingent began to straggle up, having eaten a hasty meal after their night's work, and making now for certain of the just-vacated beds.†   (source)
  • The jocks had vacated the other wall, the grass beneath the trees was bare, Emily and Sophie had left their bench.†   (source)
  • Oh sure, at first Officer Pete had made it sound like it had been an ordinary, run-of-the-mill order to vacate their spot on Bower's Point—something that hadn't surprised the others—but then he'd turned to her.†   (source)
  • I talk to them about the vacated military bases being converted to landfill use, about the bunker system under a mountain in Nevada that will or will not accommodate thousands of steel canisters of radioactive waste for ten thousand years.†   (source)
  • I laid him in Teacup's vacated bed, tucked him in, touched his cheek with the back of my hand, an old habit left over from the plague days.†   (source)
  • Brad has vacated the room.†   (source)
  • And of course in each skull, in each rondure of vacated eye, he saw the boy's face.†   (source)
  • Few bodies were found in the burnt-out theater, but clothing and costumes had been scattered everywhere, as though the famous vampire mummers had in fact vacated the theater in haste long before the fire.†   (source)
  • After a minute, Yossarian and a gentle warm wind were the only things stirring in the haunting tranquillity that hung like a drug over the vacated tents.†   (source)
  • Barbara, with Neddy in tow, wanders the second-floor hallway, mostly vacated, looking for a familiar door.†   (source)
  • Vacate that phone box and board your train at once!†   (source)
  • My heart pounded as every thought vacated my mind.†   (source)
  • YOUR PATIENT, DR. STONE," Matron said again, vacating the stool between Sister Mary Joseph Praise's legs.†   (source)
  • My brain has vacated my body.†   (source)
  • THE LAST of their exuberance vacated them at midday, when the sun stood directly overhead.†   (source)
  • He stood up, offering me the stool he was vacating, and headed out of the room.†   (source)
  • Lucien vacated the chair and Ancil took it.†   (source)
  • Two children rounded the divider after she had gone, and sat cross-legged on the cushion she had vacated.†   (source)
  • It had lasted for two hours, the crowd refusing to vacate the premises.†   (source)
  • She can count up to fifteen, you know," said the old man proudly, sitting down quickly in the vacated chair.†   (source)
  • Magnus Borgsjö would be asked to vacate his position as CEO, effective immediately, and Anders Holm would be appointed acting editor in chief.†   (source)
  • On March 21 he moved into the President's House vacated by Washington, but what should rightfully have been a fulfilling moment proved only more demoralizing.†   (source)
  • He had never yet worn such a thing—coming as he did into the pulpit vacated by a Puritan, he had chosen to bear himself plainly so as not to inflame passions on matters that he deemed insignificant to the manner of our worship.†   (source)
  • She vacated the chair for Annie and went off upstairs to run a bath.†   (source)
  • The interior of the van was air-conditioned, but the seat was still warm because Blick had vacated it less than a minute ago.†   (source)
  • Bowen Marsh had urged him to move into the Old Bear's former chambers in the King's Tower after Stannis vacated them, but Jon had declined.†   (source)
  • The guys had vacated the place as if leaving the scene of a crime, strangely subdued.†   (source)
  • The upper floors of the buildings had to be vacated, and partitions of unpainted boards went up to cut off the stairways.†   (source)
  • It's a good way of covering ground and sitting down at the same time," she began as she took the vacated seat.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing has asked if I might permanently accept the position vacated by Miss Moore, and I am happy to say that I have accepted.†   (source)
  • You think I'm going to vacate my family home and let it go to rack and ruin?"†   (source)
  • It's my turn to sink into the armchair she's just vacated.†   (source)
  • Therefore, no offices can be given to existing members except when vacated by ordinary casualties.†   (source)
  • The wizard had nearly ruined everything with his show of power that afternoon and his refusal to tear down the vacated towers behind him, further draining Crenshinibon's strength.†   (source)
  • And vacate this position?†   (source)
  • With more affection than annoyance, she knocked his feet from the desk and plopped her butt down in the vacated space.†   (source)
  • Finn Nielsen slid into a seat that had just been vacated.†   (source)
  • Ambassador Havilland, attache case in hand, strode into the office in Victoria Peak as McAllister bounced out of the chair, prepared to vacate it for his superior.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly, with one of her most audible sighs, she stood up and, grim and duty-bound, moved into the washstand area Zooey had vacated.†   (source)
  • I managed there for a couple of months until Dick Whittaker told me he couldn't find a renter for the office space vacated by legal services.†   (source)
  • It was emptiness, but it was lived-in emptiness, emptiness recently vacated, and this made them fidgety.†   (source)
  • The boy comes downstage and sits on the bench DYSART has vacated.†   (source)
  • It looked already close to being vacated.†   (source)
  • Certainly I had a reservation, but my room might not be vacated until noon.†   (source)
  • If she does not and wishes anyone to take my place, I am ready to vacate.†   (source)
  • Ron lay back down on the bed, which he had evidently just vacated.†   (source)
  • We have, however, vacated the building temporarily.†   (source)
  • Harry sat down in his vacated chair, staring glumly at the floor.†   (source)
  • Smiling to himself, he left the stage to assume my recently vacated seat in the front row.†   (source)
  • After all, as head of the Northern SIM, he knew exactly why my old house needed to be vacated.†   (source)
  • I informed Lou Ann that, thank you very much, my sinuses had just about vacated the premises.†   (source)
  • She walked toward the window he'd vacated.†   (source)
  • What if you have to vacate the stall quickly and efficiently?†   (source)
  • If our Guard vacate this forest while so many are coming for the annual Gathering-†   (source)
  • They were vacating the house on Sunday—the earliest date that Red was allowed into his apartment.†   (source)
  • New Orleans would soon be largely vacated, and being in the empty city always felt good, at least for a day or two.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Alderman Parkinson said a lady must never sit in a chair a gentleman has just vacated, though she would not say why; but Mary Whitney said, Because, you silly goose, it's still warm from his bum; which was a coarse thing to say.†   (source)
  • Vacated lockers were scrubbed, mattresses fumigated, brass coat hooks, doorknobs and keyholes were buffed.†   (source)
  • I ask Mary Webb how Ma Leela knew that a body was about to be vacated in Alberta, and she explains that in Ma Leela's natural sphere there is a data bank of bodyflow.†   (source)
  • It was Owen, using Tess of the d'Urbervilles as an example, who showed me how to write a term paper, describing the incidents that determine Tess's fate by relating them to that portentous sentence that concludes Chapter Thirty-six—"new growths insensibly bud upward to fill each vacated place; unforeseen accidents hinder intentions, and old plans are forgotten."†   (source)
  • "Thank you," said Voldemort, and he took the seat to which Dumbledore had gestured — the very seat, by the looks of it, that Harry had just vacated in the present.†   (source)
  • Or, rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad, the smell of her perfume, streets in strange lost towns where I knew she'd been walking only a moment before but had just vanished, a shadow moving away against a sunstruck wall.†   (source)
  • I was telling Riordan about the strange man I'd seen in our neighbor's vacated house when the doorbell rang.†   (source)
  • Faces appeared at the windows on either side of the street, while a little knot of prosperous-looking passerby gathered their robes about them and broke into gentle trots, keen to vacate the scene. their entrance into Diagon Alley could hardly have been more conspicuous; for a moment Harry wondered whether it might not be better to leave now and try to think of a different plan.†   (source)
  • And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again.†   (source)
  • She scrubbed down the vacated lockers, helped wash bed frames in carbolic, swept and polished the floors, ran errands to the dispensary and the almoner at double speed without actually running, was sent with another probationer to help dress a boil in men's general, and covered for Fiona who had to visit the dentist.†   (source)
  • "Ah, Potter," said Snape, when Harry had knocked on his door and entered the unpleasantly familiar office that Snape, despite teaching floors above now, had not vacated; it was as dimly lit as ever and the same slimy dead objects were suspended in colored potions all around the walls.†   (source)
  • I sit stunned in my chair, picturing the broken roads and shattered windows and toppled streetlights in the factionless sector of the city, the destruction that is evident nowhere else—not even north of the bridge, where the buildings are empty but seem to have been vacated peacefully.†   (source)
  • He vacated the high seat.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time, I'd been able to manipulate my ba's form into something less embarrassing, but since Isis vacated my head, I didn't have that ability.†   (source)
  • Had they already vacated?†   (source)
  • Remember, you must vacate your cabins by noon tomorrow unless you've made arrangements to stay the year with us.†   (source)
  • "They're called tighty-whities, baby," Blaine says, dropping down into the kitchen chair Madame Laurent only recently vacated and swinging his combat-booted feet up onto the butcher-block table.†   (source)
  • IF THE PRESIDENT and his wife had misgivings about vacating Philadelphia and the great brick mansion on Market Street, if they were at all saddened by the prospect, such feelings went unrecorded.†   (source)
  • Two Esk vacated the deck, filing down the corridor to the hold and its waiting suspension pods, and One Esk took up whatever tasks Two Esk had been doing, and also followed Lieutenant Awn.†   (source)
  • So, they were running away, into the woods, and as soon as a family vacated their shack, Cleon and the sheriff would set it on fire.†   (source)
  • It would seem a bit suspicious, would it not, if you showed up at the archmage's doorstep claiming the vacated seat of Morkai the Red and holding the very garment that the murdered wizard was wearing when he was slain?†   (source)
  • The office space next door was empty and had been vacated some time ago; the electric power was cut off, and ceiling panels were falling down.†   (source)
  • Instead, her voice low, her head drooping, Matron pushed down on her thighs to bring herself to her feet and to vacate her spot between Sister Mary Joseph Praise's legs.†   (source)
  • Any trace of desire Thomas had to speak to this group suddenly vacated He was no more a politician than he was a rat.†   (source)
  • A black family is vacating a table and making for the exit, the father folding his credit card receipt and putting it in his wallet.†   (source)
  • He stood on the edge of town, hot wind blowing through his hair, fighting a gnawing fear that the gray buildings erected along these vacated streets were tombstones waiting for the dead.†   (source)
  • But the streets and the square were emptying fast; the old men were folding up their newspapers and vacating their benches.†   (source)
  • In the room was an ugly modern bureau with a lavender-tinted mirror, and tucked into a corner of the mirror was a printed warning from the Management: Su dia termina a las 2 p.m. Your day ends at 2 p.m. Guests, in other words, must vacate the room by the stated hour or expect to be charged another day's rent-a luxury that the present occupants were not contemplating.†   (source)
  • The two eldest Glass boys, Seymour and Buddy, had moved into it in 1929, at the respective ages of twelve and ten, and had vacated it when they were twenty-three and twenty-one.†   (source)
  • Jake and Lucien hurried across the street, and it was impossible to miss the fact that other law offices were being vacated as attorneys from around the square suddenly had urgent business in the courthouse.†   (source)
  • Looking across the desks, now mostly vacated by classmates who don't bother coming to this class anymore, he feels a funny chill, though the room is toasty warm.†   (source)
  • Above them, thirty armed guards the president had called in from the special forces formed a perimeter around the stone building on Johns Hopkins's otherwise vacated campus.†   (source)
  • It would have surprised her to know how much he relished occupying the space that she'd just vacated, and covering himself with a blanket still scented with her dreams.†   (source)
  • Stone took the spot between Sister Mary Joseph Praise's legs that Matron vacated, though, after all that, Matron seemed reluctant to let him by, as if she didn't want him to sit there any more than he wanted to sit.†   (source)
  • He wrote his wife that he wished he was in a financial position to vacate his office without doing his family injustice:This world is a miserable one to me except in its connection with you…… I get a great many complimentary letters from the North, very few from Mississippi…… Can it be true that the South will condemn the disinterested love of those who, perceiving her real interests, offer their unarmored breasts as barriers against the invasion of error?†   (source)
  • While over there—just beyond the roofs of the boxcars recently vacated by the death-bound Malkinia Jews—was Birkenau, and the doctor could select for its abyssal doors anyone whom he desired.†   (source)
  • Since those days I've often fantasized the reaction of Farrell or one of the other higher-ups when this book came out under the imprint of a Chicago publisher, a year or so after I had long vacated McGraw-Hill's oppressive pile.†   (source)
  • On January 13, 1868, an angry Senate notified the President and Grant that it did not concur in the suspension of Stanton, and Grant vacated the office upon Stanton's return.†   (source)
  • He waved the boy away who had reluctantly slipped into the place just vacated before the table.†   (source)
  • The store was now just a shell, the deserted building vacated even by rats and containing nothing, not even goodwill since he had irrevocably estranged himself from neighbors town and embattled land all three by his behavior.†   (source)
  • While they finished their preparations to depart they stepped now and then across him, like people about to vacate a house forever will across some object which they intend to leave.†   (source)
  • Thus Tarrou, when his hotel was requisitioned, had gone to live with Rieux, and now the Father had to vacate the lodgings provided for him by his Order and stay in the house of a pious old lady who had so far escaped the epidemic.†   (source)
  • Steve the Sailor Bulba, my lockermate, brute-nosed and red, with the careful long-haired barbering and toutish sideburns that gave notice that he was dangerous; bearish, heavy-bottomed in his many-buttoned, ground-scuffing sailor pants and his menacing rat-peaked shoes: a housebreaker who stole plumbing fixtures and knocked open telephone coin boxes in recently vacated flats--this Bulba had taken my science notebook and turned it in as his own.†   (source)
  • It seemed bigger, as if sound took space and vacated it; there were panels of light at open doors, between long stretches of dim hallways.†   (source)
  • Francie sat in his vacated chair.†   (source)
  • Miss Ruth sat in the chair he had vacated, and across the table from her sat Miss Longstreth.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hempseed, touching his forelock, was quietly vacating the seat in the hearth.†   (source)
  • "And so hastily vacated the primroses," Frau Stohr said.†   (source)
  • When Evie came down there was a moment's awkwardness, and both ladies rose to vacate their places.†   (source)
  • She wished Mrs. Edlin good-night, and the widow entered the room that Sue had just vacated.†   (source)
  • And so I hastily vacated them—what a way you have with words, Frau Stohr!†   (source)
  • He obeyed, and took the tripod recently vacated by Lord Lancaster Stiltstalking.†   (source)
  • And as the other party withdrew, he and his band took the vacated seats.†   (source)
  • He vacated the place and cocked his ear to listen—but it didn't win.†   (source)
  • VII How it happened it is impossible to say because it came about step by step, unnoticed, but in the third month of Ivan Ilych's illness, his wife, his daughter, his son, his acquaintances, the doctors, the servants, and above all he himself, were aware that the whole interest he had for other people was whether he would soon vacate his place, and at last release the living from the discomfort caused by his presence and be himself released from his sufferings.†   (source)
  • Annie took a brass candlestick, and, too shy almost to speak, preceded the young lady to the front bedroom, which Mr. and Mrs. Morel had vacated for her.†   (source)
  • "O, don't stir, Jack, don't stir," said Mr. Henchy He nodded curtly to Mr. Hynes and sat down on the chair which the old man vacated.†   (source)
  • The head waiter piloted him immediately to a vacant table, three away from my own—the table that the Grenfalls of Falls River, N.J., had just vacated.†   (source)
  • Before supper she packed her valuables and books, papers, and clothes, together with Bo's, and had them in readiness so if she was forced to vacate the premises she would have her personal possessions.†   (source)
  • Moreover, when two people are once parted—have abandoned a common domicile and a common environment—new growths insensibly bud upward to fill each vacated place; unforeseen accidents hinder intentions, and old plans are forgotten.†   (source)
  • Her place as monitor in the school was taken by another young woman within a few days of her vacating it, which substitution also passed without remark, Sue's services having been of a provisional nature only.†   (source)
  • The fireplace confronted him with its extinct embers; the spread supper-table, whereon stood the two full glasses of untasted wine, now flat and filmy; her vacated seat and his own; the other articles of furniture, with their eternal look of not being able to help it, their intolerable inquiry what was to be done?†   (source)
  • If one of his companions, the good engineer or Herr Wehsal, for example, should happen to see his dead father sitting in the corner of his room at dusk that evening, see him look up and hear him speak—it would be absolutely horrible for the beholder, a dreadfully shocking, distressing experience, so disconcerting that he would doubt his own senses, his very reason, and feel he had to vacate his room as soon as possible and put himself under psychiatric care.†   (source)
  • On your way to the dining hall or the outdoors, you sometimes saw an empty room, a "vacated" room, ready for fumigation, with furniture piled high and both doors flung wide open—a sight that spoke volumes, and yet was so normal that it said very little, especially when at some point you yourself had taken possession of just such a fumigated, "vacated" room and now called it home.†   (source)
  • I only came to have a talk about business, Catiche," * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair she had just vacated.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the tormented spirit that glared out of bodily eyes, when what seemed Ahab rushed from his room, was for the time but a vacated thing, a formless somnambulistic being, a ray of living light, to be sure, but without an object to colour, and therefore a blankness in itself.†   (source)
  • Finally, after a very long sitting, Mr Snittle Timberry vacated the chair, and the company with many adieux and embraces dispersed.†   (source)
  • Now, my lad, vacate!†   (source)
  • Looking into the chamber of death she had vacated they saw by the light of the candles which were on the drawers a tall straight shape lying at the further end of the bedroom, wrapped in white.†   (source)
  • I thanked him and ran home again, and there I found that Joe had already locked the front door and vacated the state parlor, and was seated by the kitchen fire with a hand on each knee, gazing intently at the burning coals.†   (source)
  • MY aunt and I were at that time vacating the two cottages at Highgate; I intending to go abroad, and she to return to her house at Dover.†   (source)
  • It was his father who entered; and when Philip moved to vacate the chair for him, he said,— "Sit still.†   (source)
  • They put a bed for me in our sitting-room; and by keeping the door wide open, I turned the two rooms into one, now that Ada had vacated that part of the house, and kept them always fresh and airy.†   (source)
  • The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the expiration of the sixth Year, so that one-third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then…†   (source)
  • Osborne's own state portrait, with that of his great silver inkstand and arm-chair, had taken the place of honour in the dining-room, vacated by the family-piece.†   (source)
  • I to pay four dollars and twenty-five cents tonight, he to vacate at five tomorrow morning, selling to nobody else meanwhile: I to take possession at six.†   (source)
  • "That's Yashvin," Vronsky said in answer to Turovtsin, and he sat down in the vacated seat beside them.†   (source)
  • This done, they walked about, waiting for the Circus to be quite vacated; not only by the audience, but by the company and by the horses.†   (source)
  • The Redemption cannot be for a political purpose—to pull down rulers and powers, and vacate their places merely that others may take and enjoy them.†   (source)
  • The girl on the summit of the load sat motionless, surrounded by tables and chairs with their legs upwards, backed by an oak settle, and ornamented in front by pots of geraniums, myrtles, and cactuses, together with a caged canary—all probably from the windows of the house just vacated.†   (source)
  • These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.†   (source)
  • As they took the places vacated by the Uhlans, bullets came from the front, whining and whistling, but fell spent without taking effect.†   (source)
  • And my guardian put a letter in my hand, without any ordinary beginning such as "My dear Jarndyce," but rushing at once into the words, "I swear if Miss Summerson do not come down and take possession of my house, which I vacate for her this day at one o'clock, P.M.," and then with the utmost seriousness, and in the most emphatic terms, going on to make the extraordinary declaration he had quoted.†   (source)
  • …he had got no special liking for his uncle, always awful and cold and locked up in his study, plunged in justice-business and surrounded by bailiffs and farmers—has gained the good graces of his married and maiden aunts, of the two little folks of the Hall, and of Jim of the Rectory, whom Sir Pitt is encouraging to pay his addresses to one of the young ladies, with an understanding doubtless that he shall be presented to the living when it shall be vacated by his fox-hunting old sire.†   (source)
  • Daisy, stir the fire, and make it a brisk one! and Mr. Peggotty, unless you can induce your gentle niece to come back (for whom I vacate this seat in the corner), I shall go.†   (source)
  • This brought them to the tavern-establishment at the upper end of the prison, where the collegians had just vacated their social evening club.†   (source)
  • Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily requisition as a reception-room for callers.†   (source)
  • At dawn I sent an order to the factories and to all our great works to stop operations and remove all life to a safe distance, as everything was going to be blown up by secret mines, "and no telling at what moment—therefore, vacate at once."†   (source)
  • Opening the window, I walked in upon them; liberated Celine from my protection; gave her notice to vacate her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams, hysterics, prayers, protestations, convulsions; made an appointment with the vicomte for a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne.†   (source)
  • Where, for the first time in many revolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilities was not proclaimed, from day to day, by importune voices declining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on the door for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service of process was not required, and detainees were merely lodged at the gate!†   (source)
  • The girl's defense was, that the lordship of the seigniory was vested in the bishop, and the particular right here involved was not transferable, but must be exercised by the lord himself or stand vacated; and that an older law, of the Church itself, strictly barred the bishop from exercising it.†   (source)
  • His bright glance went merrily round the room, as he took the seat on the sofa opposite to me, which Mrs. Micawber had recently vacated, and stirred the fire into a blaze.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 35 DEPRESSION As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt's intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler's shop, and take possession of the bed which Mr. Peggotty had lately vacated.†   (source)
  • Very well—and for the next presentation to a living of that value—supposing the late incumbent to have been old and sickly, and likely to vacate it soon—he might have got I dare say—fourteen hundred pounds.†   (source)
  • The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then…†   (source)
  • The hand urged me under the pile of quilts and into the warm space recently vacated.†   (source)
  • Sir Marcus reached to the sideboard and snagged a lamp, setting it on the stool he had vacated.†   (source)
  • It having become necessary for him to unfurl a reef the sailor vacated his seat.†   (source)
  • …from opposite the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position in front of the door: two…†   (source)
  • Be strong of heart, and *void anon* her place; *immediately vacate* And thilke* dower that ye brought to me, *that Take it again, I grant it of my grace.†   (source)
  • They made their way at length in among some pleasant trees that stood a little distance from the road, and there vacating Rocinante's saddle and Dapple's pack-saddle, they stretched themselves on the green grass and made their supper off Sancho's stores, and he making a powerful and flexible whip out of Dapple's halter and headstall retreated about twenty paces from his master among some beech trees.†   (source)
  • The senators are to be chosen for the period of six years; there is to be a rotation, by which the seats of a third part of them are to be vacated and replenished every two years; and no State is to be entitled to more than two senators; a quorum of the body is to consist of sixteen members.†   (source)
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