The peace of Italy was destroyed by desolating wars in the advancement of the same worthless favorites, Sixtus desired to annex Ferrara to the dominions of Girolamo Riario.
One by one he enumerated the bloodshed, the ruin of cities, the trampling down of provinces, the passage of armies, the desolating wars that were about to fall on Italy.
Then began a cruel, desolating war of fifteen years, the outcome of which was the almost total extermination of the radical party among the Hussites.
At the very same time that Robespierre was establishing the new worship, he was desolating France with massacres of incredible atrocity, and ruling by a terrorism unparalleled since the most frightful days of Rome.
This Wallace was the same officer who was afterward sent up the Hudson River to plunder and destroy, laying Kingston in ashes, and desolating the farms of innocent men because they loved freedom better than tyranny and misrule.
The worst passions raged with wild and desolating fury.
Treachery of Great Tree 267the sachem, in some degree, to join Butler, a few months later, in desolating that settlement.
When, in 1780, Sir John Johnson and Brant led a desolating army through the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys, Brant's humanity was again displayed.
The society of the oblates was still to me the blessed ark where I should find a sure shelter against the storms which were desolating the rest of the world.
And this stupendous imposture is accepted by the people and the priests of Rome with a mysterious facility, and retained with a most desolating tenacity.
As you advance in the midst of these boundless deserts, where your eyes perceive nothing but lands of inexhaustible richness, remaining in the mostdesolating solitude, you feel something which you cannot express by any words.
We prosecuted these claims to the very verge of plunging into that dreadful war then desolating Europe.
Did they not perish miserably by the knives of infuriated negroes and the desolating ravages of pestilence?
His passions were a hurricane, which, furious, regardless, anddesolating in its course, had yet its intervals of sunshine and repose.
Hitherto, men had only been executed for political crimes, although the circle had been so vaguely drawn, and capable of such extension when desired, that the law regarding suspected persons was alone capable of desolating a whole country.
Let not your enemies, with their desolating doctrines, degrade your souls and enervate your virtues!
Such has been the desolating effect of the sixth,--the second woe trumpet.
Much has been stated about the desolating and ruthless character of the Ti-pings, but I entirely deny the accusation.
The desolating traces of civil war were also more visible.
The native villages through which I passed on this excursion manifested the great comfort in which these Africans live throughout their prolific land, when unassailed by the desolating wars that are kept up for slave-trade.
Some twenty years before my arrival at the Cape, large bands of mercenary bushmen had joined his enemies along the beach, and after desolating his territory, sat down to beleaguer the stockade of Toso.
The lofty plateaux of Tulla, of Mexico and of Cholula, are the first victims of hisdesolating force.
They strove to moderate the desolating effects of war, and generally treated the conquered peoples with kindness.
This desolatingsickness is spreading steadily over the United States.
And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass, until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land; 32.
His reign," says Gibbon, "afflicted Europe with ignominious peace, and Asia with desolating war.
His courage fails him, as it had on previous occasions on which he tried to confess his agony because of his false position, and he finally begs the Parish Priest to break the desolating news to the family.
With a war like this searing each man's brain and desolating each man's house?
And on four several occasions we repeated the desolating experience.
George thought of the long, desolating day that lay before her.
With desolating vividness he recalled the Sunday afternoon when he had carried upstairs the plump, living woman now dead.
A desolatingsadness of disappointment suddenly surged over him.
Here some trader with wife and children and staff of Indian servants has held his own against savagery and desolating loneliness.
This, which may be considered as the normal state of African society, gives rise to frequent and desolating wars, and the people long in vain for a power able to make all dwell in peace.
What tho' thro' many an ignominious age That Fiend with desolating rage The tide of carnage pour'd!
Sismondi has described the physical ravages of the crusades in southern France, with the same spirit and eloquence, with which he has exhibited their desolating moral influence in the latter.
The petitions of the commons are filled with remonstrances on their various oppressions, and the evils resulting from their long, desolating feuds.
