They ravaged the coasts of Spain, Italy, and France, and even occasionally of England and Ireland, devastating the cities and villages and carrying away booty and captives.
He collected a squadron under his command and became the terror of the whole Mediterranean, capturing merchant vessels and devastating the coasts in all directions.
They captured the city of Perekop, and then overran the whole of the Crimea, devastating it and massacring its inhabitants by thousands.
There was this much to be said for him, that he had flouted the Austrians, by invading their country and devastating it up to the walls of Vienna, without any attempt, on their part, to meet him in the field or to follow him up on his retreat.
In their fury some of the mourners fell on the canoes and houses, breaking them up and tearing them down, felling the bread-fruit trees, and devastating the plantations of yams and taro.
That afternoon there was another royal progress of the same devastating kind but more complete, since the prince surprised a little girl and pulled her hair.
They watched the devastating royal progress with indignant eyes.
Modern warfare is so devastating that only the gravest reasons known to society can authorize it.
No protection could they find, for the Austrians were too few in number to confront the devastating hosts of the invading army.
Savage, devastating desire mingled with ill-concealed rage at his coldness.
The hate in his voice and in those terrible glass-hard eyes was devastating in its intensity: implacable, relentless.
Rupertus, believed that the operation would be tough, but quick, in large part because of the devastating quantity and quality of naval gunfire and dive bombing scheduled to precede their assault landing.
After waiting only forty seconds this time, I spread my arms abroad and thundered out the devastating syllables of this word of words: "Mekkamuselmannenmassenmenchenmoerdermohrenmuttermarmormonumentenmacher!
Mordred and Agravaine spring their devastating tale upon him.
War came of it; devastatingand prolonged war came of it, Mr. Gould.
It was conceived, soon after that contact was established, in the midst of what was then held to be one of the most devastating crises in human history.
The fierceness of its devastating power chastens the children of men for their refusal to acclaim the century-old Message of their promised, their Heaven-sent Redeemer.
I would as soon vote for inquiries into the expediency of conflagrating cities, of devastating provinces, and of submerging fruitful lands under the waves of the ocean.
Of this whole seventh century the special historian of the city says that for Rome it was "the most frightful, the most devastating of all".
In December of the same year Congress retired to Baltimore in consequence of the approach of the enemy, then devastating New Jersey.
In 1779, when the British troops weredevastating S.
Out of the maze of complicated ideals and gropings this question and answer emerged, devastatingeverything in their path.
Bodily bruised and weary, mentally exhausted and groping, Mary-Clare still felt that strange freedom she had experienced while Larry was devastating all that she had believed in, and for which she had given of her best.
Remains of their beauty exist, despite devastatingwars and earthquakes.
To confess plainly, I had intended to spend my life (or any leisure I might have from Piracy upon the high seas) as the leader of a great horde of irregular cavalry, devastating whole valleys.
He affects a horror of vices which are just the thing to stop his "devastating flood of babies," and just the thing above all to keep the vicious from procreating.
Nor is there one happy phrase, except "the devastating flood of children.
Brook said, his voice shattering with devastating uneasiness and fear.
Soon thereafter, the surface was pounded by thousands of small but devastating asteroids.
For three centuries the nations of Continental Europe have been hating, fighting, and devastating each other for the sake of strips of frontier land and a shadowy balance of power.
Horrible as are the murderous and devastating effects of this war, there can be no lasting peace until Europe as a whole is ready to make some serious and far-reaching decisions in regard to Governmental structures and powers.
