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Between these two the roadway runs in a trench, sparsely lighted at night, sparsely frequented by day, and bordered, when it was cleared the place of tombs, by dingy and ambiguous houses.

Soon we were past the high lands and bowling beside low, sandy country, sparsely dotted with dwarf pines, and soon we were beyond that again and had turned the corner of the rocky hill that ends the island on the north.

He stayed, however, in apparent contentment for six days, playing with a microscope and a notebook in one of the many sparsely furnished sitting-rooms, but on the evening of the seventh day, as they sat at dinner, he appeared more restless than usual.

* In those days, so sparsely populated was the land that wild animals often became pests.

We slipped away an hour before dawn, and by broad sun-up had made eight or ten miles, and were in the midst of a sparsely settled country.

To the west the country was flat and sparsely wooded, and here it was that we saw our first game--a large red deer.

With no small difficulty my cabman found the right place, away out toward the ocean beach, in a sparsely populated suburb.

The flowers here grew more sparsely, the track of the salt wind lay like a withering band across the flower-beds.

Several miles north of the village on a little rise of ground close to the river where the jungle, halting at the base of a knoll, had left a few acres of grassy land sparsely wooded, a man and a girl were busily engaged in constructing a small boma, in the center of which a thatched hut already had been erected.

A short stretch of barren downs in the foreground only sparsely studded with an occasional gnarled oak gave an unobstructed view of broad and lovely meadow-land through which wound a sparkling tributary of the Trent.

"The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together.

The cheaper parts of the house were sparsely occupied, but the stalls were full.