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  • In that movie, the nerds of the title rent a dilapidated house and fix it up (during a classic '80s music montage).†   (source)
  • His strange appearance made him an outcast among the other young runaways, and he was forced to live alone in the basement of a dilapidated factory, eating stolen fruit and raw fish from the dock.†   (source)
  • Educational opportunities for black children in the 1950s were limited, but Walter's mother got him to the dilapidated "colored school" for a couple of years when he was young.†   (source)
  • The Gryffindor common room looked as welcoming as ever, a cosy circular tower room full of dilapidated squashy armchairs and rickety old tables.†   (source)
  • The dilapidated buildings are gone, replaced by yellow fields and train tracks.†   (source)
  • The children looked from the well-scrubbed house of Justice Strauss to the dilapidated one next door.†   (source)
  • The only notable presence was a tall, dilapidated saguaro, a bundle of sticks, in worse shape than Archie's Senor.†   (source)
  • Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing!†   (source)
  • And they saw for the first time how a dilapidated wreck could be transformed into something marvelous.†   (source)
  • He started off on his short legs toward the dilapidated old house.†   (source)
  • The building was roofless except for the tarpaulin that covered the boxes of ammunition and guns stacked against the wall; and in the only common space, a huge television screen sat on top of a dilapidated drum.†   (source)
  • Probably even worse than the dilapidated outskirts of Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • But is it really worth your time and money to hire a lawyer and go to court just to take some guy's dilapidated pickup truck away?†   (source)
  • It was with an outfit called AnooYoo, a minor Compound situated so close to one of the more dilapidated pleeblands that it might as well have been in it.†   (source)
  • Hatter did recognize some of the buildings, as dilapidated as they were, but he couldn't afford to feel sorrow for the changes wrought in the capital city since Redd's coup.†   (source)
  • We pass more fields and then a copse of birch tree skeletons, cross through a dilapidated covered bridge over a murky stream still sheeted with ice, turn down a bumpy dirt road bordered by pine trees.†   (source)
  • We walked on the dirt road over the bridge and back to the school's barn, a dilapidated leak-prone structure that looked more like a long-abandoned log cabin than a barn.†   (source)
  • It was just the kind of shop my mother would have liked — packed tightly, a bit dilapidated, with stacks of old books on the floor.†   (source)
  • He was in a large room containing nothing but an assortment of dilapidated chairs.†   (source)
  • Once, he rested in a clump of grass next to the dilapidated depot.†   (source)
  • Little by little, the crowds faded away until no one was left on the sidewalk as the area grew more dilapidated.†   (source)
  • It was a dilapidated housing project near St. Nicholas Avenue, with junkies and winos standing out front.†   (source)
  • Any food that reaches us in Kinshasa has to come over impossible roads in dilapidated trucks from the interior, so it costs too much even if you can find it.†   (source)
  • The diet of the provisional mess table, the noise & scurry and the puddles and rain do not leave a dilapidated old man much comfort & my throat & mouth are still in such condition that I have to keep slopping victuals.†   (source)
  • It was an old, dilapidated shack with a tar-paper roof.†   (source)
  • We swerved into an industrial area of dilapidated warehouses, the smoking apparitions still closing in behind us.†   (source)
  • Across the street stood an abandoned building once occupied by a branch of the East German army; a few blocks away the houses were dilapidated and covered in graffiti, looking as though the Wall had never fallen.†   (source)
  • Once again, she noticed the many empty houses, the blank windows, the dilapidated doors.†   (source)
  • First it was an old police station, then it was a dilapidated storefront sporting a yellow awning that read jade wolf Chinese cuisine.†   (source)
  • The dilapidated shack had been replaced by a sturdy and beautifully constructed log cabin, now standing directly between him and the lake, which he could see just above the rooftop.†   (source)
  • One feature of the downtown renaissance is the conversion of dilapidated buildings into swanky lofts, boutique shops and upscale restaurants.†   (source)
  • A lot of winos and drunks flopped around the area, and we became so used to seeing broken glass, trashed lots, dilapidated buildings, and squad cars racing up the street that we soon adjusted to our change of lifestyle.†   (source)
  • Arthur had bolted it to the floor of a boat-building warehouse on Andreason Street, a dilapidated barn that smelled permanently of lithographic ink and of the ammonia in the typesetting machine.†   (source)
  • The dorm has never looked so ugly before, Dan thought, so hulking and dilapidated.†   (source)
  • The scene resembled the ones at ticket counters serving flights to Haiti, except that the piles here weren't as mountainous or the suitcases as dilapidated.†   (source)
  • But the hands of bidders flickered shyly-work-roughened hands timid of parting with hard-earned cash; yet nothing went unsold, there was even someone keen to acquire a bunch of rusty keys, and a youthful cowboy sporting pale-yellow boots bought Kenyon Clutter's "coyote wagon," the dilapidated vehicle the dead boy had used to harass coyotes, chase them on moonlit nights.†   (source)
  • Every apartment we looked at was in a dilapidated state and had not felt the effects of a mop or paintbrush in decades.†   (source)
  • TRYOUTS WERE TO be held on the field of the Clarkston Community Center, a dilapidated brick and cream-colored clapboard building on Indian Creek Drive that had once served as the old Clarkston High School before being abandoned by the county in 1982.†   (source)
  • Like the beach house, the truck was dilapidated, familiar, with its own unique charm: it was my dad.†   (source)
  • She faltered a step toward the dilapidated rail fence as they came up.†   (source)
  • Eventually, we arrived at a dusty village with dirt streets and a few dilapidated buildings running along the edge of the jungle.†   (source)
  • There were no numbers on the dilapidated place, but the tattoo parlor beside it was just two numbers off.†   (source)
  • A bridge has washed out, so you have to walk across a stream to reach it, but it looks nothing like the dilapidated buildings that you see in much of the developing world.†   (source)
  • It was a dilapidated place—one former rider compared it to an outhouse—but like everything else in Tijuana, it was innovative, offering the first primitive movable starting gates and photo finishes.†   (source)
  • Small, dilapidated cookie-cutter houses.†   (source)
  • "This is it," said Adam, pointing to the centerpiece of the dump—a dilapidated trailer.†   (source)
  • In a dilapidated green Victorian house on Berkeley's Lorina Street, Mortenson slept on the floor in an upstairs hallway for a month.†   (source)
  • We crossed a dirt courtyard, where pieces of clothing hung like pennants from a wire, and entered a dilapidated hut like all the others.†   (source)
  • The Colosseum was a dilapidated shell, and the Arch of Constantine had fallen.†   (source)
  • In front of me, on the rising hill, barely visible through the blanket of fog, stood the dilapidated remains of Gatlin's oldest and most notorious plantation house, Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • Dilapidated taxis, held together with baling wire, and Mercedes crowded the same surface streets with motorcycle taxis and Tuk-Tuks-a three-wheeled cross between a car and a motorcycle.†   (source)
  • It was near a clearing where two dilapidated shacks rotted in the brush and overgrowth and offered the only hint that there was once a small settlement there.†   (source)
  • The unshaven man merely grunted and went back inside the dilapidated structure.†   (source)
  • The more dilapidated the buildings and the filthier the streets, the more cogent were the directions.†   (source)
  • He called the Södertälje police and gave them Paolo Roberto's directions to a dilapidated warehouse southwest of Lake Yngern.†   (source)
  • We spent nearly every waking moment covered with stench and grime while we gutted out Mother's dilapidated house.†   (source)
  • If I let go the tom to knock or open the door, I might lose him, so I just stood there on the dilapidated porch and hollered.†   (source)
  • People often came and went on Brewster Place like a restless night's dream, moving in and out in the dark to avoid eviction notices or neighborhood bulletins about the dilapidated condition of their furnishings.†   (source)
  • They approach what at first looks like a dilapidated group of buildings.†   (source)
  • In the dilapidated office of Winston Station, he confronted a sleepy man with slack, worn features, and a frightened young boy who sat at the operator's desk.†   (source)
  • As Shade swore, Bryan got a glimpse that revealed the dilapidated car was packed with kids.†   (source)
  • The framing is in place, but the men spend most of their effort on restoring the dilapidated turret that joins the East Wing to the rest of the school.†   (source)
  • Wasn't sure Daddy would approve of that, either, should he have been home to see me climb into a half-dilapidated Toyota.†   (source)
  • Some hundred yards ahead, a dilapidated cabin stood in a clearing of packed earth.†   (source)
  • So, we sit out on her dilapidated porch and she tells me the whole story about Zach.†   (source)
  • So when I finally came upon the doctor, when I finally saw the angular shape of his back and his wiry neck as he berated several soldiers for the dilapidated state of their quarters, it seemed I was summoning the picture of my plunging a long blade into his throat, terrorizing him not with pain so much as the fright of an instant, wholly unanticipated death.†   (source)
  • Harriet decided that from the dilapidated look of the plantation—fields lying fallow, the Big House in need of repair—Doc Thompson would soon be selling slaves again.†   (source)
  • The overseer drank, the house was dilapidated, all the furniture had been stolen, then Baptiste was discovered.†   (source)
  • Nine in the morning and they were standing on the street, in front of a dilapidated house.†   (source)
  • He drove on quickly, up through Harlem, slowing a third time in front of some dilapidated old buildings.†   (source)
  • The grounds were more dilapidated and filthier than ever.†   (source)
  • I said, determined to see if he would not offer me the use of the dilapidated outhouse, which certainly no human could degrade any more than time and the elements had.†   (source)
  • From this get-together I had come back unhappily to the Pink Palace, expecting to find the same abandonment and ruination I remembered from that evening—certainly not anticipating the presence of Sophie, whom I discovered, miraculously, in the shambles of her room, stuffing her last odds and ends into a dilapidated suitcase.†   (source)
  • Situated in a dilapidated old building where groceries had once been sold, old-style, across the counter, it bore little resemblance to the bulging supermonuments to consumption that were to rise after World War II.†   (source)
  • In the half-darkness he could see the sagging dilapidated porch and the shaky steps.†   (source)
  • The night was hot and there was a low, monotonous whistling of some bird out in the bushes grown up around the dilapidated barn, east of the house and trailer.†   (source)
  • It was pretty dilapidated when we came, but we repaired it fairly quickly.†   (source)
  • There was a window on each side of the dilapidated entrance;   (source)
  • After looking the town over with some care, the most suitable place that could be secured seemed to be a rather dilapidated shanty near the coloured Methodist church, together with the church itself as a sort of assembly-room.   (source)
  • Tall, dilapidated houses looked down on them from every side.†   (source)
  • Thomas led them down the main street, crossing through the rings of dilapidated houses.†   (source)
  • Farid led me to a dilapidated one-story house and knocked on the wood-plank door.†   (source)
  • In a dilapidated Boston rocker sat a plump little woman.†   (source)
  • She spiraled down and floated over a dark dead-end alley between two dilapidated theaters.†   (source)
  • The factory was a much bigger building than she had imagined, and it was incredibly dilapidated.†   (source)
  • One block down and across the street, old Bobby Bingo sold vegetables out of his dilapidated truck.†   (source)
  • Turkey vultures, disturbed by the travelers' arrival, circled the dilapidated bell tower.†   (source)
  • When I first moved here, a great many of the historic homes were dilapidated and abandoned.†   (source)
  • He stopped a dilapidated taxi in the Mongkok and, showing money, asked the driver to step outside.†   (source)
  • "They were in the company of those ghouls," Pippa says, settling into a dilapidated throne.†   (source)
  • The agent rose from the pavement and unsteadily made his way into the dilapidated building.†   (source)
  • Plus he owns a dilapidated industrial site outside Norrtälje.†   (source)
  • The first time Clary had ever seen the Institute, it had looked like a dilapidated church, its roof broken in, stained yellow police tape holding the door closed.†   (source)
  • That maybe there really was something to this discussion that could end up benefiting the current residents of the dilapidated building.†   (source)
  • Men wielding pickaxes swarmed the dilapidated Kabul Museum and smashed pre-Islamic statues to rubble-that is, those that hadn't already been looted by the Mujahideen.†   (source)
  • The room seemed to darken and I could almost see Nancy and Mary beginning to take shape again inside their clothes, only it was not a pleasant notion, as by now they themselves would be in much the same dilapidated state.†   (source)
  • They crossed the street and headed down a narrower one that passed what looked like an empty lot on one side and an old, dilapidated building on the other.†   (source)
  • Side by side they stood looking across the road at the rows and rows of dilapidated brick houses, their windows dull and blind in the darkness.†   (source)
  • Inside sat a disk harrow and a moldboard plow, each with its spooned metal seat, and a dilapidated hay wagon whose framework back sagged like a frowning thespian mask.†   (source)
  • They all stood in line against the dilapidated wall, some holding bundles of things and others their children's hands.†   (source)
  • I was looking at the bottom of Juli Baker's feet, wondering how in the world a person could be so happy tunneling through a dilapidated chicken coop with poop stuck all over her shoes.†   (source)
  • The elevator came to a clanging stop and they stepped out to find Church waiting for them in the entryway, a slightly dilapidated red bow around his neck.†   (source)
  • He shakes his head and looks at the dilapidated building to his right, which is made of brick and barely resembles the sleek glass spire behind me.†   (source)
  • Walter's wife, Minnie Belle McMillian, and his daughter Jackie were waiting patiently when I pulled up to the McMillians' dilapidated house in Repton, which was off the main road leading into Monroeville.†   (source)
  • Hatsue wanted to move from the dilapidated cottage they rented at the end of Bender's Spring Road, but Kabuo had convinced her the better move was to purchase a gill-netting boat.†   (source)
  • Then in 1954, the owners of a funeral parlor announced plans to knock down a dilapidated tenement so they could use the space for a parking lot, and a number of concerned citizens rose up in protest.†   (source)
  • Beyond the fence, the hospital itself was a ruin bathed in harsh light that pointed out its dilapidated state: the roofless walls jutting up from the uneven ground like broken teeth, the crenellated stone parapets overgrown with a green carpet of ivy.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a brown raincoat and a scarf over her head, a lone white woman marching back and forth on a dim street in front of the dilapidated bus station in Wilmington, Delaware, beneath a rumbling Amtrak train trestle and a cloudy sky.†   (source)
  • So Capricorn's men avoided that part of the village, where dirty dishes left by its long-gone inhabitants still stood on many tables behind dilapidated front doors.†   (source)
  • THE FOLLOWING SUMMER, the summer of 1984—the summer I turned twenty-one—Baba sold his Buick and bought a dilapidated '71 Volkswagen bus for $550 from an old Afghan acquaintance who'd been a high-school science teacher in Kabul.†   (source)
  • They passed a dilapidated convenience store, and Thomas could see through the open windows—the glass was long gone—that almost all the shelves were empty.†   (source)
  • So he sat on the tiles of a dilapidated roof, his back against the cold chimney, his face blackened with soot (for the face is treacherously pale by night), and watched smoke rise into the sky from Capricorn's house.†   (source)
  • The old, dilapidated house stood in the setting sun, quiet and serene, belying the horror that it had harbored for so many years.†   (source)
  • The particular building hadn't been pinpointed however; it could be any one of a dozen dilapidated structures clustered near an abandoned gas station, forming a rough semicircle.†   (source)
  • I didn't know, but it seemed kind of silly to think that it was somehow fated, that the dilapidated motorcycles rusting in the Markses' front yard beside the hand-printed FOR SALE, AS IS sign were serving some higher purpose by existing there, right where I needed them to be.†   (source)
  • She still remembered shivering in a dark corner of that dilapidated mansion, listening to the Cyclopes mimicking her friends' voices, trying to trick her into coming out into the open.†   (source)
  • The financier gestured at a dilapidated wooden chair across the shabby room, revealing as he did so a gold Rolex on his wrist, diamonds encrusted around its dial matching his bejewelled gold cufflinks.†   (source)
  • They only look dilapidated because there are branches leaning against the buildings and woven in a net above the compound.†   (source)
  • The walls were dilapidated structures made of cinder blocks, whose grouting had seeped through myriad cracks only to freeze in midflow like some sort of concrete moss.†   (source)
  • The house had reverted to what I suspected was Macon's preferred state, dilapidated antebellum finery.†   (source)
  • I thought I knew Alice's purpose in sending me to the dilapidated drop point where J. Jenks referred his shadier clients.†   (source)
  • She saw an empty stretch of space across the street, an abandoned park encircled by a jagged line that began as distant skyscrapers and came down to factory chimneys; she saw a few lights in the windows of dilapidated houses, a few small, grimy shops closed for the night, and the fog of the East River two blocks away.†   (source)
  • He eyed the dilapidated facility.†   (source)
  • The girl, Dai Manju, lived with her mother, father, two brothers, and a great-aunt in a dilapidated wooden shack on a hillside, a two-hour hike from the nearest road.†   (source)
  • I've been here before," he murmured, but he could not recall when, because that nightmare jungle and dilapidated mansion bore only meager resemblance to the luminous image he had treasured in his mind ever since his childhood.†   (source)
  • 'He had to move back,' Yossarian argued in a vain effort to cheer up the glum, barrel-chested Indian, whose well-knit sorrel-red face had degenerated rapidly into a dilapidated, calcareous gray.†   (source)
  • Inside the small, dilapidated rooms the widest varieties of narcotics and sex are sold; all is beyond the reach of the police — silently agreed to by all parties — for few of the colony's authorities care to venture into the bowels of the Walled City.†   (source)
  • If Niedermann had tried to answer Salander's question as to what he was doing in the dilapidated brickworks, he probably would not have been able to explain.†   (source)
  • Anybody accustomed to dilapidated African hospitals would be astonished, for it gleams in the afternoon sun and has the hygiene and efficiency of a Western hospital.†   (source)
  • He choked up even more a second later when he spied Colonel Korn's tubby monochrome figure trotting up the curved, wide, yellow stone staircase toward him in lackadaisical haste from the great dilapidated lobby below with its lofty walls of cracked dark marble and circular floor of cracked grimy tile.†   (source)
  • Together, we guide our buggy, a dilapidated baby carriage, out to the garden and into a grove of pecan trees.†   (source)
  • During that period they moved from one dilapidated place to another, each uninhabitable and uncomfortable in a different way.†   (source)
  • A trunk in the attic contains: a shoebox of ermine tails (off the opera cape of a curious lady who once rented a room in the house), coils of frazzled tinsel gone gold with age, one silver star, a brief rope of dilapidated, undoubtedly dangerous candylike light bulbs.†   (source)
  • Here at the corner, beside the timber yard, stood an old, gray, frame house which had settled on all four sides like a dilapidated coach.†   (source)
  • It consisted of a derelict bathroom, a room with a single window adjoining it, and the dilapidated, crumbling kitchen and back entrance.†   (source)
  • The place was dilapidated and it made you cry to look at it.†   (source)
  • So they took the prince and thrust him into an old tower in which there was a dilapidated salon, and in its midst a ruined well, after having first swept it and cleansed its floor-rags and set therein a couch on which they laid a mattress, a leathern rug, and a cushion.†   (source)
  • The world of today is a bare, hungry, dilapidated place compared with the world that existed before 1914, and still more so if compared with the imaginary future to which the people of that period looked forward.†   (source)
  • Not that I can see my big, gentle, dilapidated, scrubbing, and lugging mother as a fugitive of immense beauty from such classy wrath, or our father as a marble-legged Olympian.†   (source)
  • He had come to Market Basing eight years ago and rented Leigh House, a rambling, dilapidated old mansion fast falling into ruin.†   (source)
  • The rooming house where Mallory lived was a dilapidated brownstone in an unlighted street that smelled of a fish market.†   (source)
  • He had rented a big dilapidated house in a grove of lordly oaks on the outskirts of town: he lived there with his wife and his two children.†   (source)
  • The shiny carriages of Yankee officers' wives and newly rich Carpetbaggers splashed mud on the dilapidated buggies of the townspeople, and gaudy new homes of wealthy strangers crowded in among the sedate dwellings of older citizens.†   (source)
  • The inner excitement of both was intense; the hot wait at the sleepy junction of Spartanburg, the ride in the dilapidated day coaches of the branch line that ran to Augusta, the hot baked autumnal land, rolling piedmont and pine woods, every detail of the landscape they drank in with thirsty adventurous eyes.†   (source)
  • 'And perhaps the thing that struck me most was its dilapidated look.†   (source)
  • He wore a dilapidated cloak and a wideawake hat.†   (source)
  • Duane peeped in to see a dilapidated youngster on her knee.†   (source)
  • A vague pathway among the boulders led to the dilapidated opening which served as a door.†   (source)
  • The few articles of furniture were worn out and sadly dilapidated.†   (source)
  • And the unpainted dilapidated out-buildings, all the more dreary because of these others.†   (source)
  • Whitie still guarded the dilapidated rabbit, and Ring slept near by under a spruce.†   (source)
  • A fire was made up in the dilapidated brick stove.†   (source)
  • But by now this lodge was old and dilapidated.†   (source)
  • In Thebes,[243] in Palmyra,[244] his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.†   (source)
  • But, when the sun was low, three men turned in at the gateway and made for the dilapidated house.†   (source)
  • But the pipe was dilapidated and past service, and hardly hung to its fastenings.†   (source)
  • Now and then she espied dilapidated log cabins and surroundings even more squalid than the ruined forest.†   (source)
  • He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass doorknob, a dog-collar—but no dog—the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash.†   (source)
  • Unless one were looking up this matter in particular, he could have stood at Sixth Avenue and Fifteenth Street for days around the noon hour and never have noticed that out of the vast crowd that surged along that busy thoroughfare there turned out, every few seconds, some weather-beaten, heavy-footed specimen of humanity, gaunt in countenance and dilapidated in the matter of clothes.†   (source)
  • Again the mere identification of this lorn, dilapidated realm with Roberta and hence himself, was sufficient to cause him to wish to turn and run.†   (source)
  • He rented the rather dilapidated wooden "tabernacle" in which the Reverend Mr. Billy Sunday, an evangelist, had recently wiped out all the sin in the community.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • At Purfleet, on a byroad, I came across just such a place as seemed to be required, and where was displayed a dilapidated notice that the place was for sale.†   (source)
  • Even the more abstract parts of the Don Juan play are dilapidated past use: for instance, Don Juan's supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails.†   (source)
  • He found that 12 University Place was a large, dilapidated mansion, at present apparently uninhabited, though he knew it housed usually a dozen freshmen.†   (source)
  • The men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment surged forward and began its new journey.†   (source)
  • These cabins were in a dilapidated condition, and during the winter months the students who occupied them necessarily suffered from the cold.†   (source)
  • All their hopes of life became suddenly centered in that dilapidated, mean newcomer, who in profound silence clambered clumsily over a felled tree-trunk, and shivering, with his sour, mistrustful face, looked about at the knot of bearded, anxious, sleepless desperadoes.†   (source)
  • Small dress-makers, bird-stuffers and "people who wrote" were her nearest neighbours; and further down the dishevelled street Archer recognised a dilapidated wooden house, at the end of a paved path, in which a writer and journalist called Winsett, whom he used to come across now and then, had mentioned that he lived.†   (source)
  • Presently this was thrown open, and Marguerite found herself on the threshold of the most dilapidated, most squalid room she had ever seen in all her life.†   (source)
  • Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.†   (source)
  • "Faith!" she said, looking round with some curiosity and a great deal of horror at the dilapidated walls, the broken chairs, the rickety table, "it certainly does not look inviting."†   (source)
  • The heavy, gloomy oak wainscot, which extended over the walls upstairs and down in the dilapidated "Old-Grove Place," and the massive chimney-piece reaching to the ceiling, stood in odd contrast to the new and shining brass bedstead, and the new suite of birch furniture that he had bought for her, the two styles seeming to nod to each other across three centuries upon the shaking floor.†   (source)
  • For the last four years he had lived in squalid conditions with a woman whom only Lawson had once seen, in a tiny apartment on the sixth floor of one of the most dilapidated houses on the Quai des Grands Augustins: Lawson described with gusto the filth, the untidiness, the litter.†   (source)
  • After looking the town over with some care, the most suitable place that could be secured seemed to be a rather dilapidated shanty near the coloured Methodist church, together with the church itself as a sort of assembly-room.†   (source)
  • Below it at the base of the slope which led to the springhouse, and the one most productive field of the farm, were ranged all the dilapidated buildings which more than anything else about the place bespoke the meager material condition to which the family had fallen.†   (source)
  • Some of the houses he went to, in filthy courts off a dingy street, huddled against one another without light or air, were merely squalid; but others, unexpectedly, though dilapidated, with worm-eaten floors and leaking roofs, had the grand air: you found in them oak balusters exquisitely carved, and the walls had still their panelling.†   (source)
  • There stood on this two or three lustre plates, much broken but rich in colour; and on the walls were old masters of the Spanish school in beautiful though dilapidated frames: though gruesome in subject, ruined by age and bad treatment, and second-rate in their conception, they had a glow of passion.†   (source)
  • And then, glancing at the name on the mail-box which stood at the junction and evidently belonged to the extremely dilapidated old farm-house on the rise above, he was not a little astonished to note that the name was that of Titus Alden—Roberta's father.†   (source)
  • Ivan knew his new lodging, the dilapidated little wooden house, divided in two by a passage on one side of which lived Marya Kondratyevna and her mother, and on the other, Smerdyakov.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the place became dilapidated, the wind whistled through the cracked walls, the rain fell through the broken roof, the weeds choked the passage to the rotting door.†   (source)
  • The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole.†   (source)
  • While Hawkeye and the Indians lighted their fire and took their evening's repast, a frugal meal of dried bear's meat, the young man paid a visit to that curtain of the dilapidated fort which looked out on the sheet of the Horican.†   (source)
  • I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XLV Between Hampshire and London Sir Pitt Crawley had done more than repair fences and restore dilapidated lodges on the Queen's Crawley estate.†   (source)
  • …a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the Lions' Den, and finishing with Caesar's "Podium,"), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him to enjoy a full and undisturbed view of the gigantic dimensions of…†   (source)
  • In our days men see that constituted powers are dilapidated on every side—they see all ancient authority gasping away, all ancient barriers tottering to their fall, and the judgment of the wisest is troubled at the sight: they attend only to the amazing revolution which is taking place before their eyes, and they imagine that mankind is about to fall into perpetual anarchy: if they looked to the final consequences of this revolution, their fears would perhaps assume a different shape.†   (source)
  • No man could feel more resolute till he got outside the yard gate, and a little way along the deep-rutted lane; but before he reached the next turning, which would take him out of sight of the dilapidated farm-buildings, he appeared to be smitten by some sudden thought.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, on the left hand as you enter the front door, is a certain room or office, about fifteen feet square, and of a lofty height, with two of its arched windows commanding a view of the aforesaid dilapidated wharf, and the third looking across a narrow lane, and along a portion of Derby Street.†   (source)
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