abandoned town

The abandoned town over which Germans and French had fought oppressed him like a nightmare.

It was an abandoned town, emptied of all its people, who had fled with fear in their eyes, like those peasants along the roadway.

The young ship-of-the-line, hastily housed over, was left alone with the abandoned town.

Immediately he sent a pinnace up the river to meet Gates, advise him of his arrival and to order his return to the abandoned town.

When we arrived at that place, the English retired into the castle and we sat down in the abandoned town.