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There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited at all.
"How often did I wish," added he, "when I was at Allenham this time twelvemonth, that Barton cottage were inhabited!
Tarvin read the tariff with deep interest before falling asleep that night, and discovered that this was only in a distant sense a hotel, and that he was open to the danger of being turned out at twelve hours' notice, after he had inhabited his unhomely apartment for a day and a night.
Then he came back to the point where, perhaps, he ought to have begun, and that was to knock at the door against which the stranger had leaned; but this proved useless--for though he knocked ten or twelve times in succession, no one answered, and some of the neighbors, who put their noses out of their windows or were brought to their doors by the noise, had assured him that that house, all the openings of which were tightly closed, had not been inhabited for six months.
"And you did not know that it was inhabited by a young man?""No.""By a Musketeer?"
"And you say that one of your friends lives in that house?""I say so, and I repeat it for the third time; that house is one inhabited by my friend, and that friend is Aramis."
The house may be suspected; but I deny that it is so in the part of it inhabited my Monsieur d’Artagnan, for I can affirm, sire, if I can believe what he says, that there does not exist a more devoted servant of your Majesty, or a more profound admirer of Monsieur the Cardinal."
No light appeared through the chinks of the shutters; no noise gave reason to believe that it was inhabited.
There was no family, no servant; the tall man alone inhabited this house.
Yet this part of the province, at a very small distance from the capital, is reckoned among the inhabited and cultivated portions of Iceland.
The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells which had been inhabited by the first of created beings.
"No doubt," said my uncle; "and inhabited too."
There within three square miles were accumulated the materials for a complete history of the animal life of ages, a history scarcely outlined in the too recent strata of the inhabited world.
"The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together.
When was it inhabited?"
"My brother is very anxious to have the Hall inhabited, for he thinks it is for the good of the poor folk upon the moor.
No reflection of light, no sound from inhabited land, no roaring of the ocean could have reached them, through the obscurity, while suspended in those elevated zones.
But they must reach this land, whether inhabited or desolate, whether hospitable or not.
This small piece of wood, of which so many in an inhabited country are wasted with indifference and are of no value, must here be used with the greatest caution.
But ought they to establish themselves on this part of the coast, without trying to know to what continent it belonged, if it was inhabited, or if they were on the shore of a desert island?
Either we are on a continent, and then, at the expense of greater or less fatigue, we shall reach some inhabited place, or we are on an island.
In the latter case, if the island is inhabited, we will try to get out of the scrape with the help of its inhabitants; if it is desert, we will try to get out of the scrape by ourselves."
Was the island inhabited?
It was very certain that the thick forests of the island were inhabited by dangerous animals, and it was prudent to be on their guard.
"In fact," said the reporter, "instead of building a house it would be more important to build a boat, if by chance we are not more than a hundred miles from an inhabited coast."
But all would depend on the situation of the island with regard to inhabited land.
"But, some day or other, we shall find means of going away!""Sooner, perhaps, than you imagine, my friends," remarked the engineer, "if Lincoln Island is but a medium distance from an inhabited island, or from a continent.
Doubtless, it was the proceeding employed by Tubalcain, and the first metallurgists of the inhabited world.
The island is not inhabited," said the reporter.
As to our island being inhabited by natives, I don't believe it!"
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