As he disappeared behind a turn in the road, the sense of that desolation became more acutely painful.
It was an emotion which she could not restrain, and which not even the sense of desolation and dull misery which had overwhelmed her, could repress.
The voice, kind as it was, dispelled the other thought, and brought back the bitter reality of desolation and the events of the night.
The old loneliness and desolation would return and they were hard to dispel.
It was a note filled with complaint and mourning, and it told of the desolation that overspread a desolate world.
The note, full of desolation and menace, seemed to come back in many echoes.
He was quite sure that he had made a further increase in its desolation and menace, and he saw the swart leader and his men draw together as if they were afraid.
After the loss of California and the Pacific coast, the struggle for the Territories was but a, preliminary skirmish of the war for the conquest and desolation of the Union.
But dust and all the desolation of desertion gathered about the hidden chamber that he never recurred to now.
The Southern army carries little along, lives on the food and wears the dress of the semi-savage, and overruns vast spaces, leaving a smokingdesolation and a ruined society.
The boat glided through it into cover, and the arrow of light at the prow pierced ebon blackness, while the plash of the oars made a curious sound, full of sudden desolation and weariness.
The awful sense of desolation lifted slightly from her.
To find Carmel Cumberland alone in this desolationwas a mystifying discovery to which I had found it hard enough to reconcile myself.
Ranald Rankin, broken-hearted at the desolation which had come over his flock, accompanied the larger portion of these wanderers to the shores of Australia.
I will not describe at length how your withdrawal of it would increase that sense of desolation which, as matters now stand, often approaches to being intolerable.
None but angels knew the sobs, the agony of desolation which swept over her, and like a pall hung between herself and heaven.
A sweet voice broke on her utter desolation just at that moment, saying: "That is the first bell; you will have just time enough to dress and take your breakfast.
Indignation 155 Answered Pity from her cave; Death grew pale within the grave, And Desolation howled to the destroyer, Save!
A flashing desolation there, Flames before the thunder's way; But Thy servants, Lord, revere The gentle changes of Thy day.
Suddenly a remembrance of the desolation of Miss Gordon's garden in a February fog swept across her mental vision.
The garden of the Villa Camellia was certainly one of the greatest assets of the school, and to Irene, who had been transported straight from the desolation of a London suburb in January, it seemed like a vision of a different world.
Build not the desolate throne of ambition in thy heart; nor be busy with devices, and circumventings, and selfish schemings; lest desolation and loneliness be on thy path, as it stretches into the long futurity!
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off; desolation shall come upon thee suddenly.
Here is only death and desolation for the likes of you.
At the time the thought of being separated from this imperious little beauty meant for me an abomination of desolation too dreadful to be contemplated.
Truly the desolation of the moor is not to be found by its riversides, unless it be in their boggy cradles.
Whatever, therefore, shall make the first or any part of it a scene of desolation affects injuriously his heritage and may be regarded as a general calamity.
The young Staffords who had not the gruesome knowledge of Belgian desolation were satisfied with a front anywhere near the magic Ypres.
Many a wrinkled, bent old man or woman, shrinking in fear by the roadside, were left in dire desolation to the mercy of their foe.
So amid the desolation of the Acropolis must the statues of the Parthenon have looked from the hills and the sea, with something of this abandoned splendour, this dazzling solitude, this mysterious calm silence, satisfied and serene.
The loggia was not yet finished, and after the desolation of the plague the Commune was probably too embarrassed to think of completing it immediately.
Amid the desolationof a city" this splendour is immortal, this glory is not dead.
The so-called poets, in their penitential prayers and lamentations, rang the changes on only one theme, the fearful troubles and the desolation of Israel.
It is indeed impossible that all men should relinquish the world and its activity, because utter desolation would ensue, which was never intended by God.
Upon Mount Olivet, opposite the ruins of the Temple, Nachmani breathed forth his deep distress over the desolation of the Holy City; but it was not the song of Zion that arose from his excited mind.
In his desolation and distress the young poet found a comforter and protector in a man whom his poems have immortalized.
Without this victim, too, the desolation would not have been complete.
Notwithstanding the desolation occasioned by the hurricane (and it is truly distressing), I have invitations which it would require weeks to satisfy.
The last barrier was soon crossed and they were alone in the white desolation of the snow-covered hills and forests.
I hate this silence and desolation here around us," he exclaimed, "with all that noise and battle off there where we cannot see!
Each irksome duty, each privation, each disappointment, each recurrence of the sweeping sense of desolation and loneliness had had one effect--it had sent her to her knees.
Darkness rests upon its history, but in that desolation and solitude, among the ruins around, it stood like the proud memorial of a Roman triumph.
But in that desolation and solitude they were strange and striking, and, like unlettered headstones in a churchyard, seemed to mark the graves of unknown dead.
Since the hour of their desolationand wo came upon them, these buildings had remained unknown.
