Morning revealed Elmira, whose streets were desolated by railway tracks, and whose suburbs were given up to the manufacture of door-sashes and window-frames.
The Rajputs opened the gates and fought till they could fight no more, and Ala-ud-din the victorious entered a wasted and desolated city.
The veteran warriors, the companions of Malek-Scha, had almost all perished in the civil wars which had for so many years desolated the empire of the Seljoucides.
Franks; but fearing to measure himself with Saladin, he shut himself up in Ascalon, whence he contemplated with consternation his desolated provinces.
The flames and the smoke which desolated the Christians were immediately wafted against the Mussulmans.
Amidst the calamities which, during many ages, desolated the provinces of Palestine, some traces of its ancient splendour may still be perceived.
Blood flowed in all the provinces, sometimes shed by the executioners, sometimes by the soldiers; Egypt was at once desolated by its enemies, its allies, and its inhabitants.
She therefore most warmly seconded her husband in all endeavors to restore again to desolated France the religion of Jesus Christ.
After the empress had retired, with a desolated heart, to her chamber of unnatural widowhood, the attendant entered the apartment of Napoleon to remove the lights.
Josephine, as her husband was led to prison, was left in her desolated home.
It was while Heraclius was engaged in restoring order in this already desolated Syria after the death of Chosroes II and before the final peace with Persia, that a strange message was brought to him.
At the time of his death (1405) very little remained to witness to his power but a name of horror, ruins, and desolated countries, and a shrunken and impoverished domain in Persia.
Far more tremendous is it to suppose a world apparently indifferent to those three crosses in the red evening twilight, and to the little group of perplexed and desolated watchers.
Long, bloody, and unavailing civil wars have desolated and vexed many countries as the consequence; and in France the contest attained a fearful crisis, and the people wreaked a cruel retribution in the awful horrors of the Revolution.
They desolated whole provinces, leaving only remnants of corrupt peoples, to be measurably regenerated by an infusion of new blood from the plains of eastern Europe, and western Asia.
Jerusalem was desolated and only the poor left to till the land.
It is adversity that binds--beside the gravestone, beneath the desolated roof.
There is no atrocity, which the tongue can name, which had not desolated the doomed land.
He told the council that war meant starving squaws, desolated maize fields, and gameless hunting grounds to the Indian.
Fifty more avengers of desolated homes are with Wayne, and there are people in our own ranks who hate you.
After the various invasions which desolated so many parts of the Roman Empire, large portions of Gaul reverted to a state of nature.
Long continued wars have also desolated the national forests for the sake of supplying timber to the shipbuilder.
I am desolated at the injustice I have unwittingly done you.
Every day they saw pallid, nerve-shaken, wounded refugees flocking in from Tirlemont and other places desolated by German shot and shell.
A community desolatedbecause one man is sinful miniatures a world's doom for Adam's sin.
The Spanish fleet was scarcely well out of sight before the Buccaneers, angry but unintimidated, flocked back to their now desolated island, full of rage at the sight of the bodies of their companions and the ashes of their ruined houses.
In this respect, then, the scene of March 13th at the Tuileries was indirectly the cause of the bloodiest war that hasdesolated Europe.
The hasty proclamation of equality between whites and blacks by the French revolutionists, and the refusal of the planters to recognize that decree as binding, led to a terrible servile revolt, which desolated the whole of the colony.
One of the greatest of them lasted for three years, and desolated an immense extent of country with floods of lava.
The tracts of country which these volcanoes have desolated with their lavas are called by the Mexicans the "Malpays.
Of these Thucydides is the earliest; and the plague which desolated Athens in the second year of the Peloponnesian war, though not the earliest mentioned in profane records, is the first of which any particular account has reached us.
Another celebrated pestilence is that which desolated Milan in the year 1630.
As one instance of this, he strangely enough represents Montreal as the head of the first Free Company that desolated Italy: he took that error from the Pere du Cerceau.
Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.
If war desolated a part of the country, then, when peace was concluded, Frederick gave the farmers seed and let them use his war-horses before the plow.
