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Definition of Desolaters
1. desolater [n] - See also: desolater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolaters
Literary usage of Desolaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ti-ping Tien-kwoh: The History of the Ti-ping Revolution by Augustus F. Lindley (1866)
"In vain I gazed around for some trace of the " desolaters." If I looked to the
village, I saw nothing but crowds of well-to-do, busy, complacent- looking ..."
2. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"Languedoc, a country, for that age, flourishing and civilized, was laid waste by
these desolaters ; her cities burnt ; her inhabitants swept away by fire ..."
3. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1827)
"... the most successful Desolaters of the earth; yet he never ttM. Blessed are
the Wan-makers ;—but he ..."
4. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"... of vengeance which Demosthenes, like the Heroes of ancient mythology, undertook
against the desolaters of his paternal home2/ It would be agreeable thus ..."
5. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"... to carry on the contest of vengeance which Demosthenes, like the Heroes of
ancient mythology, undertook against the desolaters of his paternal home. ..."
6. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"... natives around the mound and on its slopes settled its fate ; and the demolition
begun thereupon, and continued by the furious desolaters of the Church, ..."
7. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius (1897)
"... which Demosthenes, like the Heroes of ancient mythology, undertook against
the desolaters of his paternal home. openin" of ^n^B contest was waged in a ..."
8. Dakota War Whoop: Or, Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota, of 1862-3 by Harriet E. Bishop (1864)
"What fearful guilt rests upon the murder plotters — the proxy desolaters of the
fair land and domestic peace, for that secession is the root and base of the ..."
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