Example Sentences

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Mentioning the lowest motive first, it will desolate you financially.

From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

Villani says that it acted like hail, which will desolate fields to the right and left, whilst it spares those in the middle.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

The staff he waved was all aglow Like Yáma's sceptre, King below, Or like the lurid fire of Fate Whose rage the worlds will desolate.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Thy son Trewul will refuse him his sister's hand, and then he will desolate the country, until Milolika's hand is promised to him.

From Fairy Tales From all Nations by Montalba, Anthony R.

One of their leaders expresses the fear that moves them, when he says that the Germans will desolate their homes if they do not return to them.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean