Deserted

Deserted may refer to:

  • Desertion, the act of abandoning or withdrawing support from an entity to which one has given
  • "Deserted", a song by Blind Melon from their 1992 album Blind Melon

Famous quotes containing the word deserted:

    In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:35.

    Of Jesus.

    The discovery of Pennsylvania’s coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)