Her room, which had been so warm and bright, lay desolate in the stillness of the night; but she wanted no light, for the darkness was no darkness to her.

[Hears the wild fowl's cry] Hark, the passing fowl screamed twice or thrice!Can it know there is no one so desolate as I?

The interior of the cabin appeared more desolate than ever in the gray light of dawn.

So builded I the nunnery at Winisfarne and there sought to bring solace and comfort to desolate hearts because my heart was so desolate for thee, my babe, my Beltane.

"What ef he should die?" they whispered among themselves, repentant enough of their late condemnation of him and already desolate at the thought of his leaving this little haven with them for the "great haven" over there; and the whisper reaching the sickroom, Abe's fever would rise, while he could never lift his lashes except to see the specter of helpless old age on one side of the bed and death upon the other.

But when my heart was desolate with many losses, I fixed it upon the child of a stranger, and he became dearer to me than all my buried ones; and now he too must die, as if my love were poison.

I cannot believe but that, with the jealous instinct of true affection, he must have perceived the ground slipping away, hour by hour, from beneath his feetmust have seen the ship that carried all his cargo sailing farther and farther into a golden distance to leave him desolate on the darkening shore.

He was desolated without her, he wrote.

Horse-breeders moreover have they been, and found favour with mailed Ares; but in one day the fierce snow-storm of war hath made a happy hearth to be desolate of four men.

In such an evening there was no time for bitter memories: and John Hammond was surprised to find how little he had missed that enchantress whose absence had made the house seem desolate to him when he re-entered it.

Southern Mesopotamiathe Irak of the Arabs and Babylonia of the Greekslies desolate like the North, but is a contrast to it in every other respect.

Then, it might be a little after the hour of midday, we had come so close to it that we could distinguish with ease what manner of land lay beyond the shore, and thus we found it to be of an abominable flatness, desolate beyond all that I could have imagined.

" Still he did not even glance towards her, and she looked away over the country side all lonely and desolate under the moon.

Now the blue coats were worn by mature men, some gray, all grave and resolute: husbands and fathers, with the memory of wives and children tugging at their heart-strings; homes left desolate behind them, and before them the grim certainty of danger, hardship, and perhaps the lifelong helplessness worse than death.

Blanketed in white, the upland mesas lay like great, tideless lakes, silent and desolate from green-edged shore to shore.

It was plainly the only apartment the owner had; and all its arrangements were those of a man living alone, for there was something almost desolate about the look of the scanty furniture, though it was clean and whole.

She did not feel half so desolate after seeing Andy, and she let him hold her hand, which he stroked softly, admiring its whiteness, and evidently comparing it with his own.

Yet once again stand desolate by thee?

I caught sight of my future home looking very small and desolate against the long stretch of sea-wall, and far in the distance I could just discern the mast of the Betty still tapering up above the bank of the creek.

There were some figures, like little dolls, skating up and down, and they looked rather desolate beside the deserted band-stands and the empty seats.

It was very desolate without, but still more desolate within the home I am going to describe to you.

Less than a quarter of a mile away, sheltered in a dip of the plain, were three or four log buildings rising black and desolate out of the white waste.