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We have said that he has desolated countries by the same means that plagues of his description have produced similar desolations.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

My God, have mercy upon me, stay the terrible tempest which has desolated my whole being, and now breathes its deadly simoon through the sepulchre which was once a heart.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

It has desolated the fairest portions of our land, "until the wolf long since driven back by the march of civilization returns after the lapse of a hundred years and howls amidst its ruins."

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

It has desolated our native land 1 It has made barren our fairest fields!

From Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries by Hogan, William

The contrast was awful between the island looking so lovely in the evening light, and this horrid deed which has desolated it.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)