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Dismantled long ago, the President’s House is marked today by an exhibit that shows the foundation of the building and is adjacent to the museum housing Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Upon the gleaming harvest-field remote     The thresher lies deserted, like some old Dismantled galleon that hangs afloat     Upon a sea of gold.

From Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 by Riley, James Whitcomb

"Dismantled for the most part," says Parry, "the yards however being laid for walls and roofed in with thick wadding tilts, they were sheltered from the snow, whilst stoves and ovens were fixed inside."

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.

Dismantled, untrucked, costly palace cars blocked railroad tracks from Van Buren street to the city limits.

From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill

Dismantled houses here and there appeared, tottering to the earth, propped up by fragments of others that had fallen down, unroofed, windowless, blackened, desolate, but yet inhabited.

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles