had desolated
- past perfect of desolate.
Example Sentences
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Miss Fisher's favorite horse bore her airy weight as jauntily down the street as if no impress had desolated equestrian society.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
Their ruin and the triumph of Ferdinand II. seemed inevitable; twelve years of war in its most horrible form had desolated their lands, reduced their numbers to less than half, and broken their spirit.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
At Philadelphia in 1876 Vienna bread was made known, and the native article, sodden with saleratus, which up to that time had desolated the country, 360 began to disappear.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
That analysis of words and conceptions which in modern philosophy has been a principle of continual rejuvenescence with Descartes and Berkeley, as well as with Bacon and Locke, had desolated the field of scholastic theology.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
This "waste town," however, neither fire nor sword had desolated, and the grim deeds of British powder and lead were still of the future.
From The Frontiersmen by Murfree, Mary Noailles
