| 1. | The house was dark, dismantled and the all appearance, uninhabited. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | A room was dismantled for each new guest. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | The dwelling was dismantled but we could see a white man had lived there not very long ago. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 4. | 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. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 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. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | 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. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 8. | After which he put the fatal knife in Potter's open right hand, and sat down on the dismantled coffin. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 9. | The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |