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During the last day's journey, sad traces of the ravages of war had been apparent at every step.
And almost every night, under our very noses so to speak, frightful ravages were committed among the flocks.
The insects that make ravages in books multiply very rapidly, and very few libraries are free from them.
In the meantime the rebellion was as strong as ever, and what the rebels spared the soldiers ravaged.
She had been stealing like this for the last year, ravaged by a furious, irresistible passion for dress.
They were troubled with no remorse for the horrible excesses of crime and ravage which they had committed.
Audubon's drawings and plates were also repeatedly ravaged by fires, but this was at a much later day.
He was a noted pirate, who, in summer, visited and ravaged most of the coasts round the Baltic.
Two kings were ravaging their coasts: Canute only could defend them; and his arrival might soon be expected.
I generally sought some elevated ground for this purpose, which the ravages of the river could not reach.
My husband is here, without perceiving the ravages which misery and remorse have made in my unhappy heart.
At the dissolution of religious houses, the ravages of the times affected both the living and the dead.
Marcia put off her sack and gloves, and hastily repaired the ravages of travel as best she could.
This bell was broken about thirty years ago, and destroyed in the ravages of the immediately succeeding years.
The fire was supposed to have been accidental; but the ravages had been carefully limited to the offending wing.
To secure the building from ravages of fire, no wood was employed in its construction except for the doors.
Out into the warm sunshine they passed, the light revealing more plainly the ravages of time in his face.
Even the ravages of captivity had not destroyed the exceeding beauty of the princess, now sixteen years of age.
As the ravages of the famine spread, nearly every family in the town mourned the absence of some member.
Its ravages are most pronounced in the month of December, but cases are quite frequent the whole year round.
The ravages of war, awful though these ravages have been, are nothing to the ravages which have been self-inflicted.
However, when the Duke in 1635 made a separate peace with the emperor, the Swedish army ravaged his territory.
If caught in one of the frequent storms which ravaged that iron-bound coast, she could not live an hour.
She bore it quietly and there was little alteration in her cheerful voice when she spoke of the ravage.
On the contrary, its ravages would be more general and more tremendous, for it would inevitably be carried everywhere.
It is at this season that the shepherds most keenly scan their flocks and note the ravages of winter.
He extends his ravages over all Central and South America, and over a considerable range of the northern continent.
Then, overcome with hunger, weariness, and the ravages of her emotion, she slipped to the floor in a heap.
Its poison is active, but it confines its ravages to insects on which it preys, and seldom attacks man.
In armed bands they landed and ravaged the coasts, battering down forts and capturing and plundering cities.
The other method of protecting the young bamboos from the ravages of the wild boar, is an ingenious one.
They spread themselves over a large part of Salamis, ravaged the properties, and seized men as well as goods.
When this happens, the female immediately prepares another nest; and should it also be ravaged, sometimes even a third.
There came from across the Channel a breath of acute anxiety, the anxiety of an invaded and ravaged country.
Now in my judgment writings of the first class will be the ones to withstand the ravages of time.
A short distance below the city we passed a village recently deserted because of the ravages of the tigers.
The continual ravages of the Iroquois had hitherto been a standing obstacle to the progress of the young nation.
The lapse of five hundred years, and the ravage of successive wars, had much impaired the structure of Zerubbabel.
Thereupon, without order or measure, his men took the field, ravaging and wasting everything wherever they passed through.
Eight years passed, and by the ravages of war the little settlement went up in flame and smoke.
His men did no ravaging, and were in need of provisions, while he was minded to fill up his ranks.
The city's advancement was temporarily checked by the ravages of the Danes, who burnt it more than once.
At this time the shores of the Potomac were ravaged and a number of fine and ancient homes were burned.
Time seemed to have made dreadful ravages over his whole frame, and a settled melancholy was visible on his countenance.
At a glance the mistress saw the ravages which the terrible night he had passed through had caused.
The only ravage known on the ocean, in which man is concerned, is that which he suffers from the ocean.
Here they begin their ravages by devouring the roots of the grasses which surround them on all sides.
Once launched on such a campaign of crime, the country would be ravaged before a military force could be organized.
Sophocles has made her grand, proud, skeptical, lonely, pitiful, ravaged by thoughts not to be breathed, horribly pathetic.
The man entered his cabin, and the next twenty minutes were consumed in repairing the ravages of hunger.
Sometimes great trees in the forest have to be set on fire as the only way of stopping their ravages.
This terrible disease had affected one entire side of the face, and had made in it the most dreadful ravages.
Once one of Frontenac's officers, ravaging the country of the Oneidas, found a solitary old man in a certain village.
Bands of robbers ravaged the land, and were with difficulty put down by the strong hand of power.
There was considerable ravaging of the country by the rebels in the west, and some little fighting there.
They offered him their money, and of their own accord swore not to disperse or to ravage the country.
He is wearing an officer's uniform of the Town Guard, and his collar hides the ravages in his neck.
War had made sad ravages in his army, and he found much difficulty in filling up his wasted battalions.
They left it waste and abandoned it to the soldiers of fortune by whom it was ravaged and exhausted.
"The King has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns and destroyed the lives of our people."
No corner of the land is safe from his ravages; no one can hope to escape the consequences of his appearance.
The driver of the truck and his assistant were full of tales of the fire's ravages in other sections.
It is not a healthy place, the yellow fever often makes great ravages, but I heard nothing of it.
Time, that as yet has done nothing but made ravages, may now, when things are so changed, work miracles.
The ravages of the malignant fever which had broken out in the hospital were not confined to the patients.
If they had burned his house, all castles and villages for leagues around should be ravaged by the flames.
They prey on the beautiful and useful little birds that are indigenous, often extending their ravages to poultry yards.
"If the Franks," said he, "commit any ravages on our possessions, let them be judged according to their laws."
The storm of the night might have seemed a dream but for the still visible traces of its ravages.
Before they grew to maturity a cruel plague spread over the land and carried them off with its ravages.
And if that is the case, we must anticipate that it will extend its ravages whilst prolonging its duration.
The barbarians hold possession of a sterile field of battle: afterwards also they spread themselves and ravage the country.
This conjecture turned out to be well-founded, for the fire soon afterward burst forth, and still continued its ravages.
Things had got pretty slim, though, towards the end, with all the countless columns ravaging the country.
Or if they be girls, they will have a free passage to the Chiefs guaranteed to be ravaged by the Boers.
It was surprising to find how many of these creatures were commencing their ravages before the spraying had begun.
The breaking out of a malignant fever, which made dreadful ravages in the city and neighborhood, disturbed their pleasure.
Riding at Darby's right side, he looked straight and whole, a lean, good-looking man, with a kindly ravaged face.
There's naught but ravaging, and murdering, and starving, and no one left to tell us the way of salvation.
As if the ravages of lead and steel were insufficient, disease and exposure added their quota to the harvest of death.
Elephants were formerly very troublesome here, and the natives were unable to protect their banana plantations from their ravages.
The ravages which the war had made were well illustrated by the appearance of this city after its evacuation.
War may have had its terrors, but it could not be compared to the ravages of this frightful visitation.
Since the time of the cholera in 1833, which committed terrible ravages here, there has been no other epidemic.
The soil was of the best, but ruined by the ravages of the Thracians, precisely as he had been told.
Once the house blew down over their heads in one of the dreadful winter storms that ravage those high latitudes.
Its ends had already been partially consumed, and thereby rounded, in the flames that had ravaged the place.
It was only when they were over the southern portion of Virginia that the ravages of deadly gas became apparent.
One may buy artificial teeth, hair and limbs, but no cosmetics or massage will cover up the ravages of Thought.
Her face, too, was the face of one little more than a child, though pain and trouble had ravaged it.
There seemed to be no hint of weakness in the body, racked for weeks by the ravages of the fever.
That is, they were not so stupid as to misuse the fire metal which ravaged the world so harshly before.
It contains a tar which imparts an agreeable scent to the leather that protects it from the ravages of insects.
When she appeared before him in the half light, the ravage of a past storm was visible on her face.
The soul in which passion has reigned continues to bear marks of its ravages a long time after its extinction!...
The director of the mine now resolved to flood the works as a last resource against the ravages of fire.
The latter were continually ravaging the northern border and were, apparently losing all their former feeling of friendship.
John in this Cartoon is an instance of what we have above hinted as to the ravages of time on these pictures.
We but humble ourselves that he may shine upon us and cease to ravage the land with flood and flame.
This interesting document was long preserved in the abbey, but disappeared when the house was ravaged under Napoleon.