To oppose the devastations of Famine, who scattered the ground every where with carcases, Labour came down upon earth.
Italy has, indeed, since he has been made a general, been more the scene of his devastations than Germany.
The pillage, robberies, and devastations in Helvetia added several more millions to his previously great riches.
I hold that their multiplication and their devastations are largely incited by the degeneracy of our plants caused by the badness of our culture.
The loss of fruit alone by the devastations of insects, within a radius of fifty miles from this City, must amount in value to Millions.
The raids, devastations and wars between province and province, tribe and tribe, went on without a year's interruption.
A friend of Miss Ridgeley's father had witnessed the devastations of the yellow fever in Philadelphia.
Its devastations were then painted to my fancy in the most formidable colours.
The recent devastations of the British army aided by tories who remained on the soil, had thrown everything into one chaotic mass.
At breakfast the next morning he said that a large war party had been committing devastations up and down the flat.
The Indians had been committing serious devastations and it was necessary to suppress them summarily.
Even in the Norwegian province Viken, which Harold Bluetooth had given to Sweyn Forkbeard, he continued his devastations in pure wantonness, as if to advertise his defiance of the Danish king and all that belonged to him.
In treating of the devastations of torrents in a former chapter, I confined myself principally to the erosion of surface and the transportation of mineral matter to lower grounds by them.
But no tongue can give an adequate description of their devastations in one of those sudden floods which resemble, in almost none of their phenomena, the action of ordinary river water.
Its devastations are increasing with the progress of clearing, and are every day turning a portion of our frontier departments into barren wastes.
These prisoners gave us some shocking accounts of the murders and devastations committed in their parts; a few instances of which will enable the reader to guess at the treatment the provincials have suffered for years past.
During this time, the Iroquois were as dangerous to the French by their inroads anddevastations as the Abenaquis were to the English colonies; accordingly Frontenac wished to subdue them.
A dyke was set up against the devastations of the scourge; the worthy bishop might hope to maintain it energetically by his vigilance and that of his coadjutors.
New fields of enterprise would be opened to our progressive people, and soon the devastations of war would be repaired and all traces of our domestic differences effaced from the minds of our countrymen.
The loose and negligent administration of that prince had emboldened the Norman barons to affect a great independency; and their mutual quarrels and devastations had rendered the whole territory a scene of violence and outrage.
David, King of Scotland, appeared at the head of an army in defence of his niece's title, and penetrating into Yorkshire, committed the most barbarous devastations on that country.
But these stories seem to have been invented by the Welsh authors, in order to palliate the weak resistance made at first by their countrymen, anal to account for the rapid progress and licentious devastations of the Saxons [o].
That restless people seem about this time to have learnt the practice of tillage, which thenceforth kept them at home, and freed the other nations of Europe from the devastations spread over them by those piratical invaders.
We may likewise trace the footsteps of king Harold's army by the devastations which stand upon record in the same book.
The loyalists who came along the western frontier of Carolina to join his standard, committed great devastations and cruelties on their way.
Some account of Cortez, and his horrid devastations in Mexico, &c.
Hence those shocking violations, those sudden devastationswhich have so often stained our frontiers, when hundreds of innocent people have been sacrificed for the crimes of a few.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devastations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
