He looked over his shoulder to see if any one was within the sound of his voice, which he took the precaution to lower to what had always been a successful tone in days when he was considered quite an excellent purveyor of sweet nothings in dim hallways, shady nooks and unpopulated stairways.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon
Our eagerness to get on, and the unpopulated country in which we were, induced us to start walking at a still earlier hour the next night.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
Curtains, of that antique chintz in which fasces of stripes are alternated by rows of flowers, filled the interstices of three windows; a heavy sideboard occupied the greater portion of one side of the room; and on the opposite side, in the rear of Brandon, a vast screen stretched its slow length along, and relieved the unpopulated and as it were desolate comfort of the apartment.
"Paul Clifford, Volume 7."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton