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But these new great roads are desolating, more desolating than all the ruins in the world.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Why does He not send the angels of whom my mother told me when a child, and bid them stand between the armies that are desolating thousands of hearts like mine?

From His Sombre Rivals by Roe, Edward Payson

On the other side of the Loire, bands are desolating the department of Morbihan, and some parts of those of Isle and Vilaine, the Coasts of the North, and Sarthe.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

What will this do to compensate for its giant evils which are desolating our land?

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

But I lacked the courage and strength, or rather my reason told me how insane such an undertaking would be in the midst of the civil wars that are desolating our unhappy country.

From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Sue, Eugène