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Definition of Desolations
1. desolation [n] - See also: desolation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolations
Literary usage of Desolations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"... monstrously heaped around it; yet no more ir langer than a star in the maw of
the clouds. BOOK EIGHTH.—ENCHANTMENTS AND Desolations. I. — FULL LIGHT. ..."
2. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... or the majestic desolations of Greece, are certainly not entirely devoid of
interest, but excite a feeling of veneration for the memory of those mighty ..."
3. The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With by William Jewett Tenney (1865)
"Bonks in Texas— Operations In Missouri and Arkansas—Operations against the Indians
in Minnesota—Desolations by the Armies. arrived at Louisville, Ky., ..."
4. The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798 by Henry Martyn Field (1851)
"THEIR GREAT WANT THAT OF ABLE OFFICERS.—DEATH ov FITZGERALD.—Desolations OF THE
WAR. BUT the battle was lost, and with, that went down the cause of the ..."
5. The History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the by J[acob] H[arris] Patton (1867)
"Desolations along the Frontiers.—General Bouquet.—Pontiac's Death. THE people of
England were not indifferent spectators of these failures ; they noticed ..."
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