The apparatus for devastation was also on a much greater scale than had ever before been witnessed.
This merciless devastation extended for more than two leagues on either side of the line of march.
Herodotus speaks of the devastationand ruin as complete.
The disasters of the war--the devastation of lands, the burning of houses--had reduced the fortunes of many of the Athenian nobles.
The second of the three armies was charged with the devastation of the Palatinate, and fulfilled the part assigned it with distressing precision.
They came from the North in both cases, and terrible was the devastation which God gave them power to effect.
But it is only when the smoke has cleared off and the dust has subsided that we can form any idea of the ruin and devastation which have been accomplished.
We must remember the continual scenes of devastation which took place during the period of their domination; when monasteries were rifled, books burnt, and manuscripts wantonly destroyed.
At the tidings of this devastation Europe was aroused, and in fact we may fairly say that Gerbert's book of travel was the first spark that fired the conflagration of the Crusades.
As he cast a glance over the wild confusion and devastation of the field, the exclaimed hurriedly, "I see that the battle is lost.
Hence the devastation of Phrygia by the Cimmerians must have taken place in the year 695.
Then the evil one stirred up Iskander Rumi, so that he spread war and devastation over Iran, and slew the rulers of the land.
General Stoneman is under my command, and my order will suspend any devastationor destruction contemplated by him.
We are accused of having brought devastation upon Russia.
The representatives of the bourgeoisie understand very well that the overthrow of slavery was well worth the three years of Civil War, the depth of destruction, devastation and terror that were its accompaniment.
Until the end of World War I, it was closely tied to Austria, but the economicdevastation caused by that conflict forced Liechtenstein to enter into a customs and monetary union with Switzerland.
He broke through the walls in a reckless way, that added greatly to the devastation of years.
So great was the fame of its rulers that this small, isolated strip of land suffered for their principles, and probably owes to them much of its devastation in the terrible Wars of Religion.
During long centuries of such religious and political devastation the architectural energy of Gascony was expended in replacing churches which had been destroyed, and were again to be destroyed or injured.
It is the good in them that has made them the instrument of the immeasurable devastation which they accomplish.
France does not need Russian foodstuffs, and in terms of narrow self-interest (cutting her losses in Czarist bonds) can afford to be indifferent to the devastation of Russia.
When the first streak of morning light comes, bringing no cessation of the storm, but only serving to show the devastation it has made, the effect is still more dismal.
Virginia could not be restrained, although she was warned and ought to have seen, that if she joined the Rebellion she would inevitably become the battle-ground, and would consign her territory to devastation and her property to destruction.
Before his advance the cities hastened to capitulate, and so complete was his devastation of the country that it came to be a saying that the grass never grew where his horses had trod.
The town bore marks of devastationand the wild license of Zaporojians.
They thought the Germans had not been punished enough for their crimes and atrocities, and that the enemy country ought to suffer the same devastation as France.
The devastation in the neighbourhood of Cockrane Alley was worse than at Guillemont.
As soon as the ambassadors returned to Rome, the senate ordered one of the consuls to lead his army into Algidum against Gracchus, to the other they assigned as his sphere of action the devastation of the country of the Aequans.
The consul, after he had repeatedly carried devastationwith a hostile army through the whole of the enemy's country, returned to Rome with great glory and booty.
A large force of Sabines, committing dreadfuldevastation advanced almost up to the walls of the city.
During those days the consul Nautius engaged the Sabines at Eretum with distinguished success: besides the devastation of their lands, this additional blow also befell the Sabines.
We shall continue our efforts to provide relief from the devastation of war, to alleviate the sufferings of displaced persons, to assist in reconstruction and development, and to promote the expansion of world trade.
The pilgrims had passed, that morning, through a scene of devastation similar to, and scarce surpassed in misery by, those which they had often trod during the wars of the Cross.
But what, Philip Guarine, have we to expect as an explanation of the devastation which we have traversed?
As the time of Jerusalem's overthrow and the devastation of the land drew nearer, after the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles, strange signs in heaven and earth were seen in Jerusalem and throughout the land.
The correct interpretation is that it includes all the devastation of the land, the burning of the temple, the slaughter of the flock, the spoiling of the shepherds, the Jewish leaders and the complete overthrow of the land and of the people.
The devastation directly wrought by the lava currents themselves was not the whole of the evils they brought upon unfortunate Iceland and its inhabitants.
The Reign of Destruction and Devastation Rarely, in the whole history of mankind, has a great city been overwhelmed by destruction so suddenly and awfully as was San Francisco.
People of this kind were in the streets and saw the advent of the reign of devastation in its full extent.
