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Desolated by his absence, and alarmed by the tone of the letters from him that had reached her, she had resolved to follow him.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
Desolated homes and lonely lives are witnesses of the folly of any such policy.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
Desolated, my dear ladies—but my man tells me the coach is in readiness, and I have an impertinent leader who refuses to stand, when he is waiting, on anything more solid than his hind legs.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman
Desolated, Dannel begged me to intercede for him, which I did with so much zeal that he was reinstated in the marshal's good graces; since when the valet had been devoted to me.
From The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot by Colt, Oliver C.
Desolated, of course, without the two who were her soul and her existence; but Margaret understood that she could not bear the sight of sickness; it had been thus from infancy.
From Three Margarets by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
