They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
Let him not sleep alone in a deserted dwelling, let him not wake ,a superior who is sleeping, let him not converse with a menstruating woman, nor let him go to a sacrifice, if he is not chosen ,to be officiating priest.
Guru Nanak
The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
Charles Dickens
He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
Charles Dickens
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a.
Henry Ward Beecher
And now I think it still bothers some people but I'm kind of glad the store is there as opposed to there being a deserted building.
Susan Hurt