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Definition of Devastations
1. devastation [n] - See also: devastation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devastations
Literary usage of Devastations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"Sheridan's devastations of the Valley.—" Barn-burning."— An affair of Rosser's
cavalry. ... devastations ..."
2. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... headmen and their raids—Remedy for preventing wholesale devastations — Crusade
preached by Cardinal ..."
3. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"... devastations produced by Floods—The Yadate Pass—The Force of Water—Difficulties
thicken— A Primitive ..."
4. The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution by Philip Morin Freneau, Fred Lewis Pattee (1907)
"... THE ENGLISH devastations AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON 1 Their power abused !
that power may soon descend: Years, not remote, may see their glory end: — The ..."
5. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"Unexpected tolerance of the ferocious Penda towards his sou and his converted
subjects. But he continues his devastations in Northumbria. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In his eleven military campaigns he invaded, subdued, and conquered, after a
series of devastations and raids, all the regions north, south, east, ..."
7. The Story of South Africa, the Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, South by George McCall Theal (1894)
"THE WARS AND devastations OF TSHAKA. AT this period nearly the whole of South
Africa beyond the borders of the Cape Colony was in a state of violent ..."
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