On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine how any large bodies of men could find subsistence in a small country, which was the seat of so devastating a war, and in which so much land remained still unreclaimed.

Now and then some seedling escapes the devastating sheep a rod or two down-stream.

It would be worth knowing how much the devastating sheep have had to do with driving the tender plants to the shelter of the prickle-bushes.

He sprang upward; and, climbing with the agility of a squirrel, he was soon in the highest fork of the tree, and enabled to look down in security on the devastating fire beneath him.

For two days the Boston soldiers remained on the island, burning and devastating the villages and fields, end firing at random into the thickets, but without seeing a single being.

In sure-aim'd strokes of nobleness and worth, And never more Time's devastating tides Shall wear the steadfast record from the Earth.

But our object does not require us to attempt to trace the history of these nations, under their various appellations of Huns, Topa, Geougen, Turks, Chozars, and others, till the establishment of the vast empire of Zingis connected the history and devastating conquests of the Tartars with the affairs of modern Europe.

The consuls having entered the Campanian territory, while devastating the country on all sides, were alarmed, and thrown into confusion, by an eruption of the townsmen and Mago with his cavalry.

The next day, passing by Cales, he reached the Sidicinian territory, and having spent a day there in devastating the country, he led his troops along the Latin way through the territory of Suessa, Allifae, and Casinum.

After devastating the adjacent parts of Illyricum he turned his course into Pelagonia, with the same expedition.

The inhabitants are a wretched pallid set, who are visited every year with devastating fevers.

"She's a devastating whirlwind, that child, and she comes down here partly to get away from the wreckage.

"The wheel and loom have left our homes, Our maidens sit with empty hands, Or toil beneath yon roaring domes, And fill the factory's pallid bands, "The fields are swept as by a war, Our harvests are no longer blythe; Yonder the iron mower's-car, Comes with his devastating scythe.

And, even though it should contrive To keep its pinions on the flap, And by a tour de force survive This devastating handicap, Yet are there perils in the skies Whereon we blandly shut our eyes, But which are bound to be incurred, And, notably, the Bolshy-bird.

Langres and Dijon closed their gates against him, the magistrates excusing themselves upon the plea that they held those cities for the King; and on his arrival in the Bourbonnais, after devastating all the villages upon his route, the imprudent Prince was met by a request from M. de Montmorency that he would march his troops through some other province, as no sufficient preparations had yet been completed for his security in Languedoc.

But the late Ben Blunt, after the first devastating shock, had been recovering vitality for this ordeal.

" With that, Queen Freydis set about a devastating magic.

" "No, we will have none of your high-minded and devastating speeches at our banquet.

This is not an indictment of the whole German people; it is an indictment of the militaristic-bureaucratic ruling class, which, persuaded of its divine inspiration and intolerant of criticism, has plunged the country into a devastating war.

For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off childhood, in short, for sheer gratuitous misery-producing power, this influence stands alone.

TANNER, BIBIANNA B. Devastating love.

They effected an entrance at several points, devastating, plundering, loading their cars with booty, and dividing their prisoners into two parts; one offered in sacrifice to their gods, the other strung up to trees and abandoned to the gais and matars, or javelins and pikes of the conquerors.

From A.D. 260 to 268, under the reign of Gallienus, a band of Franks threw itself upon Gaul, scoured it from north-east to south-east, plundering and devastating on its way; then it passed from Aquitania into Spain, took and burned Tarragona, gained possession of certain vessels, sailed away, and disappeared in Africa, after having wandered about for twelve years at its own will and pleasure.

That was why Love had come to her at last with a flaming sword, devastating her whole life, depriving her of even that which she had seemed to have.

His questions were blasting and devastating, like the questions of a child.