During the preceding campaign he had devastated the whole of the country lying between the marshes and the territory occupied by the Assyrians, and had withdrawn the inhabitants.
Pushing forward through the defiles of Tunibuni, he next invaded Urartu, and devastated it as far as the sources of the Euphrates; on reaching these he purified his arms in the virgin spring, and offered a sacrifice to the gods.
At this juncture the Greeks of Cyprus flattered the pride of the Assyrians in a most unexpected way: after the manner of their race they scoured the seas, and their fleets persistently devastated the coasts of Syria and Cilicia.
Shalmaneser, finding it impossible to force the city, devastated the surrounding country, burnt numberless villages and farms, and felled all the fruit trees in the Haurân up to the margin of the desert.
Human life, of course, was not then regarded as by us, especially by men who devastated whole cities and burned them to the ground.
Their ravages were not confined to the Gulf of Mexico: they crossed the Isthmus of Panama and devastated the coast of the Pacific Ocean from the Strait of Magellan to California.
Solyman, having devastated the country around him, and being all unprepared for the storms of winter, was compelled to retire.
And when, on his return to Hungary, he found his estates plundered and devastated by order of the imperial governor, he was all ready to head an insurrection.
In May 1137 began a fresh campaign in which he devastatedthe district of Hiemois (round Exmes) and burnt Bazoches.
This is not the place to account for the turmoil and anarchy which have so long devastated one of the most fertile quarters of the globe.
The present financial condition of the republic is a striking commentary on the havoc wrought by the numerous revolutions that have devastated the country and ruined its credit.
Remembering the Crusade of the Children, people leaped to the conclusion that it was he who had devastated so many houses with his magic arts, leading forth the tender youth to perish of starvation and exposure.
Raymond had devastated the surrounding country and was ever on the watch to cut off foraging-parties, so that supplies were scanty.
They leave nothing that is green wheresoever they come, either on the ground or trees, and fly so swiftly from place to place, that whole provinces aredevastated in a very short time.
The following day the reorganised Battalion was inspected by the Colonel, and on the 8th July the Battalion marched through the devastated region and the ruins of Courcelles, Sapignies and Bapaume to Bancourt.
The Battalion was now in country which hitherto had been in German hands for the whole of the War, and the devastated area was left behind.
Alcazar of Madrid, where in one of the numerous fires which successively devastated the royal palace they must have perished, since no trace of them is to be found after the end of the seventeenth century.
Home Fires in France is a truthful record of Mrs. Fisher's impressions of life in tragic, devastated France during the Great War.
She was a native of Toulon, and when young had witnessed the destructive effects of the plague which devastatedthat city in 1720.
Lycanthropic criminals were also brought up who had prowled about and devastated the sheepfolds.
Our country is already devastated and in ruins; let us stop before our people are ruined also.
I leave it to other pens to describe how the British looted our property, wantonly killed our cattle, and devastated our farms.
Two different kinds of false statements had been widely promulgated, one as to Germany's capacity to pay, the other as to the amount of the Allies' just claims in respect of the devastated areas.
The traveler by motor can pass through and from end to end of the devastated area of Belgium almost before he knows it; whereas the destruction in France is on a different kind of scale altogether.
One devastated area was exactly like another--a heap of rubble, a morass of shell-holes, and a tangle of wire.
The amount of the material damage done in the invaded districts has been the subject of enormous, if natural, exaggeration A journey through the devastated areas of France is impressive to the eye and the imagination beyond description.
In the following year a great plague devastated the whole of Transcaucasia, 5000 died in Tiflis alone.
All have perished in the numerous sieges and inundations which have devastated the city.
He had devastatedhis one faithful province of Bagemder.
I bear it from the devastated towns of the provinces, from your homeless brothers of Alsace and Lorraine.
Alsace henceforth must be written Elsass, and the devastated province called Lothringen was never again to be written Lorraine.
It is an everyday occurrence “over there” to witness a football match on some recently regained, devastated French field.
As the reinforcements move over the devastated territory and while shells fall all around him Tommy will sing, “Are we down-hearted?
After that we always used to be very suspicious of any house or village that wasn't devastated when everything round had been chewed up; there was nearly always a spy concealed somewhere not far off.
Priest is the staff of king, And chains and clouds one thing, And fettered flesh with devastated mind.
One month later Desdames returned, and confirmed the news that the English vessels had devastated the Acadian coast, and burnt the habitations.
It was the fleet of David Kirke,[27] who was going to make an assault on Quebec, after having devastated the Acadian coast.
