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were desolating

  • past progressive
    of desolate.
    desolate
    adjective
    barren or laid waste; devastated.

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To repress these ravages, the governor of Conception marched against Lillemu with an hundred and fifty men, and cut off a party of Araucanians who were desolating the province of Chillan.

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 Robert Kerr

He marched his followers into Gaul under a commission to chastise the "barbarians" who were desolating it.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne