1545 examples of dispersed in sentences

The bodies I cared for are in graves, or dispersed.

I am very sorry we shall not see John, but I never go to town, nor my brother but at his quarterly visits at the India House, and when he does, he finds it melancholy, so many of our old friends being dead or dispersed, and the very streets, he says altering every day.

The Indian scouts with Reno had before now been dispersed, and were making back tracks fast as their ponies could carry them.

With no car left, no fuelevery scrap of it having been thrown into the engine or upon the burning carand with no means of further obstructing the track, the pursued party were reduced to desperation, and as a last resource, when within eighteen miles of Chattanooga, abandoned the train and dispersed to the woods, each to save himself.

Sometimes, when I am ready to commit suicide, she sings some favourite air, and instantly the gloom and madness are dispersed.

After the lapse of some days, being overcome by the Spanish troops, they dispersed on the 24th of August.

Everything has ended quietly; the meeting has dispersed at the persuasion of its leaders, who took fright.

Then the gypsy began to take up a collection in her tambourine, and presently the crowd dispersed.

Presently Quasimodo was released, and the mob thereupon dispersed.

The meeting dispersed about half-past ten, and all felt the wiser for their evening's amusement.

The port was so narrow, that numbers and skill were unavailing, while the dispersed French, perceiving the tokens of conflict, came running from every quarter to assist their party.

Presently the most furious tempest imagination can conceive burst forth; and when the darkness cleared off, there was seen over the sea what looked like a waterspout of prodigious depth and breadth, suspended at a height of several feet above the water, and moving slowly away until it dispersed at last at a distance of many miles from the shore.

I think another probable Conjecture may be raised from our Appetite to Duration it self, and from a Reflection on our Progress through the several Stages of it: We are complaining, as you observe in a former Speculation, of the Shortness of Life, and yet are perpetually hurrying over the Parts of it, to arrive at certain little Settlements, or imaginary Points of Rest, which are dispersed up and down in it.

The letters written by Morse during these critical years have become hopelessly dispersed, and but few have come into my possession.

Her hair, of too dead a black for gloss or glister, was always adorned with a nasturtium-vine, whose vivid flames seemed like some personal emanation, and whose odor, acrid and single, dispersed a character about her; and the only ornaments she condescended to assume were of Etruscan gold, severely simple in design, elaborately intricate in workmanship.

On reaching home that afternoon, wet, cold, weary, and with chill foreboding in her heart, Katherine's first sensation was one of lively gratitude to Nellie for having dispersed the confusion she had left behind when she departed so hurriedly.

This closed the ceremony, and the grave was then filled, and the crowd of white and red men dispersed.

The fog dispersed earlier this morning than usual.

Others terminate in round grassy knobs, with oaks dispersed about the sides.

At a late hour the company, after a benediction, withdrew and dispersed.

It was the non-appearance of her brother, Rush, that had brought a lot of dispersed feelings to a focus.

The number of houses of worship was surprising; I do not mean spacious or stately churches such as we meet with in Italy, but most commonly little chapels dispersed so as best to accommodate the population.

A cloud now for the first time touched the summit of Monte Rosa, and sought to cling to it, but in a minute it dispersed in shattered fragments, as if dashed to pieces for its presumption.

Then the corpse went overboard with a splash, and the men, after standing awkwardly together for a few minutes, slowly dispersed to their duties.

All who had once loved her were dispersed or dead; no personal interest bound her to their survivors; and where long years previously she might have claimed affection, she could now only anticipate pity or dread contempt.

1545 examples of  dispersed  in sentences