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For me more than the avalanche had desolated Zloczszol.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

Drawing their sledges upon the ice, they day after day followed down the lonely and silent stream, whose banks war had desolated.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

He could remember nothing of the joy that had thralled him for two years, that by its ending had desolated him for two more and alienated him from women.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca

Thus was an end put to a destructive and sanguinary war, which had desolated the possessions of the two nations for ninety years.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Gascony for the moment was so quiet that the rebellious hordes called the Pastoureaux, who had desolated the royal domain, withdrew from Bordeaux in terror of Simon's threats.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William