All around, was spread the extraordinary desolation of stillness, that had so impressed me during my previous wanderings across its starkness.

The château was as still as any castle of enchantment; only an old clock in the drawing room, two floors below, tolled the slow hours; and through the open windows came the mournful murmur of the river, a voice of utter desolation in the night.

But on this particular morning, when they took in sail, they realised it was to be that abomination of desolation on the shore or death.

See ye yon baggage, muffled in black weeds: Those clouds fold in the comet that portends Sad desolation to this royal realm.

She raised her face in the blank of desolation about her to the unseen heaven.

Dragged him back to Desolation with a rope round his neck.

All was now desolation over the angry sea, as the battleships gradually vanished.

The entire war has presented no greater picture of desolation than that of the hosts fleeing from the last Belgian stronghold.

Among the scenes of desolation around the grimly cold volcano, alone, the old Indian made his last stand, and in a rude cabin, beside a tiny spring that seeped from under the black rock on the mountain-side, lived in splendid isolationsilent, brooding, desiring only to be left in peace with his few ponies, his small herd of cattle and the memories and traditions of his people.

Hedges and Stickney, in this way, became separated from the rest of the party, and after suffering all the feelings of desolation at being lost in this wilderness, accidentally stumbled upon our camp, and they freely expressed their joy at their good fortune in being restored to the party.

The marauding parties, as they learned the wealth and weakness of this new land, grew bigger, until at length they were armies, and defeated the German Franks in pitched battles, and spread desolation through all the country.

It is a desolation beyond description, and clouds of dust.

All communication through the valley was stopt; it was impossible to organize help; and the alarm-bell was incessantly sounding over the immense white desolation like a knell for the dead.

The place was a deserted garden, where the ruins of a European houseburnt by natives in some obscure madness, years agosprawled in desolation among wild shrubs.

His experiences among the gold diggings, then his period of maddening desolation as a Queensland shepherd, and after that his life among the savages in a South Sea island, had done much to change him.

All is desolation without you.

There were not then, as now, upon some of them, great dead trees reaching out their long bare arms in verdureless desolation above a stinted undergrowth, and piled up trunks charred and blackened by the fire that had revelled among them, but all were green, and thrifty, and glorious in their robes of beauty.

It had been so small a spot compared to the great desolation across the road, they stamped out the flames so easily, that the girls expected with every breath to see the last of it.

The desolation along both banks was pitiful; every village had been burned, every field trampled; not a living thing was in sightnot even a dogbut the creeks were choked with corpses.

The lonely rock rose in solitary barrenness, a bleak and mournful monument of some rude caprice of Nature, which has thrown it out to stand in cheerless desolation amidst the broad waters of the Atlantic.

Along the northern frontier, the Loyalist forces commanded by Sir John Johnson and Colonel Butler made repeated incursions into the Mohawk, Schoharie, and Wyoming valleys and, in each case, after leaving a trail of desolation behind them, they withdrew to the Canadian border in good order.

It exhibited its desolation beneath the intense serenity of heaven; heaps of corpses were sleeping in the warmth, and the trees that had been brought down, seemed to be other dead who were dying.

The government of the Duke of Alva, and the succeeding years of revolution, were a period of desolation for Flanders.

On either side ran a narrow passage, which parted the spot of desolation from inhabited dwellings.

We have observed that very few deaths took place in the colony of New Plymouth during the second year of their exile, and after the fatal stroke that deprived them of their President; but among those few, there was one that carried grief and desolation into the hearts of the family with whom our story is chiefly connected, and who were already deeply afflicted by the loss of the first-born.