Once, after a wedding, he woke up in a closet, wearing only leather pants, his guitar abandoned outside on the gravel driveway.
Just a week old, the puppies had been abandoned outside an animal rescue center.
Throughout it all, they remain pariahs, abandoned outside the walls of the not-so-civilized society of their day.
And families were evacuated while experts defused a car bomb abandoned outside a pub in the predominantly Catholic village of Cargan, near Ballymena, Co Antrim.
Patrick's new bicycle, a Christmas present, was abandoned outside the shop, prompting police to discount the theory that they had run away.
Like dozens of other dogs each year, the yellow dog was abandoned outside the league, the largest "no kill" animal shelter in the country.
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Police and the boys' families have always feared something terrible happened to them, especially as Patrick's new bike, his Christmas present, was found abandoned outside the shop where they were last seen.
Because language is abandoned outside the lounge, we're forced to imagine it, or to make narrative cohesion of events that are unfolding right before our eyes — or on the floor below, without us.
Masked men in Catholic west Belfast hijacked a bus, ordered it to be abandoned outside a police station, and claimed a bomb had been hidden on the top deck of the bus.
