Here he traded his watch in a Dogrib camp for a score of traps, blankets and new moccasins, invested the last of his money in flour, sugar, salt and tea, and took possession of an abandoned cabin in the neighborhood of Hinde Lake.
James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage
None had come, however, and somewhere about half-past ten, he had reluctantly abandoned his vigil and, faint with hunger, hurried to Angela Gardens to apprise us of its result.
Henry Howarth Bashford, Augustus Carp, Esq.
Barrymore’s only indication had been that the stranger lived in one of these abandoned huts, and many hundreds of them are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Stapleton had abandoned the chase and came back to us breathing hard and flushed with his exertions.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
We had risen from our rocks and were turning to go home, having abandoned the hopeless chase.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
As she drove through the huge city which the West has built and abandoned with a gesture of despair, she longed to stop, though it was only Bombay, and disentangle the hundred Indias that passed each other in its streets.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— left without needed protection, care, or support
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— left empty or no longer used
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1 use of ‘abandoned’ in A Gentleman of Courage, by James Oliver Curwood
1 use of ‘abandoned’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
1 use of ‘abandoned’ in Augustus Carp, Esq., by Henry Howarth Bashford
4 uses of ‘abandoned’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway