1 Here, then, we see that, while to dismantle this fortress occasioned Ottaviano no loss, its construction gave the French king no sort of advantage.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. 2 So to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCI... 3 Two great yellow caravans had halted one morning before the door and men had come tramping into the house to dismantle it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 4 The house was dark, dismantled: and the all appearance, uninhabited.
5 The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 6 I went round to my employer, found him in the same dismantled kind of room, and was told to keep at it until Wednesday, and then come again.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 7 , when afterwards, by a sudden stroke of good fortune, he was restored to the dukedom caused all the fortresses of the country to be dismantled, judging them to be hurtful.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. 8 The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCI... 9 Great dismantled trunks of pines tower above the green cottonfields, cracking their naked gnarled fingers toward the border of living forest beyond.
10 This was still more strangely evinced by those of their number, who, completely paralysed as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled ships on the sea.
11 She was delighted to know that the Esplanade Street house was in a dismantled condition.
12 A room was dismantled for each new guest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 13 The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 14 After which he put the fatal knife in Potter's open right hand, and sat down on the dismantled coffin.
15 The dwelling was dismantled; but we could see a white man had lived there not very long ago.