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1. The other was a faded old geological map of the Gengee, where a desolate wasteland deep in the West Gengee Empty was marked up in Portuguese
2. As he walks, he looks about the desolate
3. It was so desolate that anything to be rendezvoused with would be visible, even at this angle
4. Right below him on the desolate plain was an endless field of dogs, mainly dobies, stiffs and weilers; too thin, a little bloody, with dripping mouths and crusty yellow teeth
5. And then I felt as empty and desolate as space itself, where there's no air
6. Finally the unremitting, almost desolate, sameness of the basin floor was interrupted by a small farming village and as Afternoonday of Iyosaign waned, on the anniversary of boarding Vyinga's ship, the ordeal was over
7. It is too eerie and desolate
8. 'We will follow the sublime but wild and desolate grandeur of the dusty fields and high plateaux
9. Nikos kept the rugged and desolate coast of northern Stephanos at a safe distance and whenever a wave broke over the bow and showered me with salty balls of foam Alexis would collapse in fits of laughter at my cringing and groaning
10. small market in a desolate part of the country
11. The desolate cities shall be
12. 19But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence
13. 27to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
14. desolate waste, and the cities that
15. In here now they seemed to float only fifty miles or so above where Alan was supposed to be by now, a desolate patch of high ground on the upper slopes of a mountain
16. Flavio loved flying and living life on the edge so he joined Buffalo Airlines in Yellowknife, Canada, where he flew DC-3s into places more desolate than the Angolan forest
17. desolate landscape of one of the limestone plateaux for
18. The landscape was grey and desolate, and Jean began to
19. Nobody of any substance took that path for it lay in desolate country and occasionally the wind would cease to blow and deep impenetrable mists would flow down from the mount
20. of his desolate state when suddenly I heard Rishabh shout for me
21. this the object of her long and desolate ordeal? She felt a strange connection to this brilliant artist
22. Before she could ask about the tale of desolate Odysseus, Homer put his lips against her
23. This area was desolate: patchy grass, amid the sandstone rocks, partly chewed by the local fauna
24. Occasionally an old road or a shiny roof would appear reflecting sunlight, but for the most part, it was desolate
25. stranded on this desolate island in the middle of nowhere
26. Without Kiri inside its walls, Salverford seemed even more cruel and desolate
27. They hit Isla Natividad, a small, desolate island, on a perfect day for surfing one of the best beach break barrels in the world
28. Around five-hundred million survivors of a war ravaged desolate world were left, not quite adrift, but at a velocity which would take them a thousand years to reach their original destination
29. Desolate, the child went to bed in the dark and soon fell asleep, but
30. They left a desolate desert, a monument of ruin, despair, pestilence, and death, to the magnanimous victor morally pledged to stand sponsor to the Free Cuba that is to arise on the blood-soaked ashes of the Island
31. The whole scene was cold, wild, and desolate, and I
32. girl on the cold and desolate side of the window-pane, and the
33. They are a desolate people, dry branches ready to be broken off
34. Lo, one full day has passed since I left them desolate, In severe thirst, with nothing at all to nourish them
35. And one who takes and corrupts My gifts, for their own gain, shall be left desolate
36. Thus says The Lord, to all these blind and deaf children, to all these desolate people:voice and question My ways, without ceasing, and have yet to consider your own?
37. Yet the desolate fail to call upon Me in their time of need
38. And though they walk in the midst of desolate lands,
39. But just minutes after that, a small but upscale resort magically appeared in this desolate forest
40. There was no plan in his head, only just to go on and on in this desolate hill country
41. " Ranger started the conversation with a desolate statement, "With our current forces, we're not likely to last the night
42. From a distance, the faded red Kombi, covered in bulldust, would have resembled a speeding gold bullet, cutting a path through a desolate stretch of highway, with no end in sight
43. Desolate, she shall sit on the ground
44. And the land is a desolate waste
45. He sounded as desolate as she felt
46. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house
47. Out of the country! That was a desolate time: in a refugee camp while he supported the three of them with whatever odd jobs he could pick up
48. The bathes, the wine, and the sex supplied Epicurean pleasures at home, while an army of four hundred thousand was stationed on the desolate frontier
49. Just beyond a break in the trees he could see the landscape become more desolate farther out, the border
50. 14 But deliver us with your hand, and help me that am desolate, and which have no other help but you
1. The Senator had heard the tragic news and was also desolated
2. Since the toilets were desolated at that period and I wanted to sulk without being seen, I was sitting over there
3. The city was desolated, but not because the people have suddenly up and vanished, but because they had all gone to the train stations to express their opinion of the new arriving aliens into their country—which was hurling projectiles from the platforms at the train
4. The convoy drove unto a desolated street with a few soldiers stationed as guards along the side
5. showed a bearded man walking alone in a desolated, arid area, with the camera zooming in on his serene face as the title appeared in the background
6. Moving on to the second screen, Ben Gurion saw a small caravan of people mounted on camels as they were traveling across desolated hills and valleys
7. He scanned the desolated area that was his
8. In early English history, the bloody wars of the Roses swept away the flower of our nobility, and struggles between the rival houses of York and Lancaster frequently shook the throne, and desolated the realm
9. “I bought this T-shirt with a desolated apocalyptic Earth scene and the caption under it displays, Game Over Dead
10. Faith, joy, and goodness are desolated leaving only an insensible personality with sadness, evilness, and hopelessness
11. “How did that happen Adi?” I asked desolated
12. He was right; the loss after twenty-five years is more terrible; and in the instance I mentioned the shattered and desolated bride was in two years happily married to a second husband
13. Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more
14. goddess, who sits moping in a desolated heart; around me she shrieks, but I
15. in a country which they had desolated?
16. As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated camp
17. This night one of the violent Martian dust storms had come over the low Martian graveyards, blowing through ancient towns and tearing away the plastic walls of the newer, American-built city that was melting down into the sand, desolated
18. sanguinea emerge, carrying a pupa; but I was not able to find the desolated nest in the thick heath
19. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world
20. The Martians, I thought, had gone on and left the country desolated, seeking food elsewhere
21. Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse
22. Love there may even yet be, but not the same; its place is still there, but darkened and desolated; it is without savor and without strength; the remembrance has not vanished, nor the gratitude, but
23. A considerable area, for instance, in the parishes of Gwythian and Phillack has been thus desolated, and several churches have been inundated
24. In reviewing past times, we cannot but perceive that it has been the desire of the Government to avoid being involved in the war with which Europe has been so long desolated, and by dealing out justice to the belligerents, respectively, with an impartial hand, to preserve our neutrality, permitting our citizens peacefully to pursue their private avocations, reaping the rich harvest arising from our neutral commerce
25. You, favorites of Almighty God, while all the rest of the world are scourged, and ravaged, and desolated by war, are about to enter into a policy called preventive of war; a policy which comes into this House in the garb of peace, but which must end in war
26. Some said they were busy elsewhere; but others said they must have gone away, and, on their return, they would cause this home and this obstinate family to be desolated
1. She pressed very close to him, and put up her face to his, shutting her eyes, for so she shut out the desolating garden with its foreground of murderous flags
2. Who among us can abide the devouring fire? who among us can abide perpetual burnings?’ A slight attention to the context shows (as may be seen in the accessible commentaries, of very different pretensions, of Barnes, Delitzsch, and Gesenius) that the chapter whence these words are quoted refers to the desolating invasion of Palestine by the Assyrians
3. I have thus stated the grounds on which they deem, and I have felt myself bound to maintain, that this contemplated invasion of that territory is, as it respects the Canadians, wanton and cruel; because it inflicts the greatest imaginable evils on them, without any imaginable benefit to us; that, as it respects the United States, such an invasion is senseless, because, ultimately, ruinous to our own political safety; and wicked, because it is an abuse of the blessings of Divine Providence, and a manifest perversion of His multiplied bounties, to the purpose of desolating an innocent and unoffending people