untenanted

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Shall we dare to say that the impenetrable forest, or the untenanted island, was made in vain?

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  • Richard Granger was just completing that great reconstruction of the centre of the town which gave Newcastle so noble and unprovincial an appearance; but the fine streets he had constructed—finer than any others to be found in England at that period—were still untenanted, and it was melancholy in walking along Clayton Street to see nine houses out of ten mere empty shells without doors or windows. —  Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
  • They were untenanted, and were slung over a coat-hanger dependent from a cupboard door. —  Watson's Choice - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 28 - 1955
  • This hath been long untenanted, and will I am informed, require about 300l. —  Henry Fielding: A Memoir
  • The farm-houses were untenanted, the fences laid flat or destroyed, the fields strewn with discarded clothing, arms, and utensils. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
  • I saw only the peaks of gables under green boughs; and I wondered when I was informed that the lovely spot had been long untenanted, and wondered still more when I learned that it was the property of good Grace Greenwood. —  Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
 

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