Ares, plain of, “A desolate plain in Thrace with low trees.
For though Libya is fully settled and abounds in inhabitants, yet when we wish to express complete desolation we say ‘more desolate than Libya,’ not meaning to refer to its emptiness, but to the poor spirit of its inhabitants.
All the rest is a desolate stretch of burned timber.
The vegetation on this desolate continent struck me as quite limited.
Beyond, a stark silence reigned in this desolate natural setting, a silence barely broken by the flapping wings of petrels or puffins.
It is not only in the helpless widow and her brood of dazed and desolatechildren weeping over the news that comes from the battlefield, that war become so hideous.
In this wild, desolate and (I may add) barren region, excluded at present from all communication with the civilized world, intelligence of a local kind can alone be expected.
But the poor Scottish settlers had no means of transport, and the way seemed long and desolate to them to venture upon, unaccompanied and unhelped.
And the return to the desolate Monrepos was hardly to be borne.
She wished to be strong in order to support and comfort her mother, and this thought supported her--“We will fill the desolate rooms with our love, and find our happiness in each other.
Then he gave a melancholy look at the desolate house, and tears came into his eyes.
To forego the joys of Diana's companionship for two, empty, desolate years.
But I turned away and rushed from the spot, never daring to look back; but ever as I went, that desolate cry rang and echoed in my ears.
For them, rain and wind and darkness, for me such comfort as the inn afforded, but of the three it was I who was desolate and forlorn.
She, my Spirit of Love, was gone, and I alone in a desolate wilderness to grieve and wait, to strive and hope through weary length of days.
I remembered that not so long ago the famous Buck and Corinthian Sir Maurice Vibart had been found shot to death in just such anotherdesolate place as this.
Captain Danby offered to escort me to aunt's house at Sevenoaks, but once I was in his chaise I grew afraid of him and instead of following the high road he drove by desolate lanes and--oh, he was hateful and so at last we came here.
Desolate as the heart within her was the waste ground.
Better that his child should lie there cold and lifeless than that it should fill this desolate house with joy and love?
Hugh Ritson sat alone in the old hall, that was now desolate enough.
In that wilderness of London, more desolate than the trackless desert, what was she?
The king hesitated, was going to demur; but just then we heard the door give way, and knew that those desolate men were in the presence of their dead.
The present king has never dwelt In the desolate palace.
The desolate nest is broken And torn with storms and rain!
It appears wild and desolate enough at present, but must have been more so at that time, from the accounts the Roman historians have given us of it.
And when they added further desolation to a desolate country, this was their peace.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
In reality, this sole child of the Landgrave was also the one sole jewel that gave a value in his eyes to his else desolate life.
The sublimity of its orderly aspect vanished: it took now the melancholy, confused, desolate air of a large auction room, after a day's sale.
At length, when Alaric continued to desolate the country, others sought an asylum in the same marshes, and built twenty-four houses, which formed the germ of Venice.
A melancholy flat was the marais, looking desolate enough by day, but now, in the gloaming, tenfold as desolate.
A word, a glance, a touch, are sufficient to fire the magazine of passion in the heart, and to desolate for ever an existence.
For his guilty mind, at peace with neither gods nor men, found no comfort either waking or sleeping; so effectually did conscience desolate his tortured spirit.
Give our spoilers' towers to be Waste and desolateas we.
Christ's kingly offices would be better known, the truth would be spread into desolate parishes, and faithful ministers would be refined.
May there not be a deep leaven of pride in telling howdesolate and how unfeeling we are?
There are no transept doors; and one never wanders round to the desolate front.
The two friends now busied themselves in preparing the evening meal: they found Louis and Hector had lighted up a charming blaze on the desolate hearth.
Hope, the consoler, hovered over the path of the young wanderers, long after she had ceased to whisper comfort to the desolate hearts of the mournful parents.
She would fix up the desolate old house, she thought; the bare windows which now so stared her in the face should be shaded with pretty muslin curtains, and she would loop them back with ribbons.
She was a proud, fashionable woman, who saw nothing attractive in the desolate old house, and who had conceived an idea that her brother's second wife was a sort of nobody whom he had picked up among the New England hills.
What joys, what sorrows once centred around this cold and desolate hearth-stone?
After lying desolate more than fifty years the second temple was begun about B.
After this captivity the city lay desolate for fifty years, until the conquest of Bab'y-lon by Cy'rus, B.
