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These barbarians ravaged the empire in all directions, perpetrating horrors indescribable.
The ravages of the scurvy can be estimated from these words.
The soil we were treading had been ravaged, wrecked, torn by convulsion.
Whole regions have been ravaged, and abominable deeds perpetrated in the towns.
It was as a city ravaged by pestilence from end to end.
No means were left untried, but they failed in arresting its ravages.
It is said that Flora's house was pillaged and her plantation ravaged.
The city will be taken, the looting and ravaging already begun.
A deadly malady ravaged the French ships and infected the Spanish.
His ravages even shocked his carnivorous porters and annoyed the natives.
Besides, the ravages of the storm had rendered the highways impassable.
On this account, implacable and incessant wars ravaged her territories. ...
And nothing made by man can endure unchanging the ravages of Time.
Who is it that pays the piper for the ravages it causes?
Madame was contemptuous and indignant over the ravaging character of the expedition.
In the meantime famine spread its horrors abroad, and pestilence its ravages.
Towers had toppled, windows had broken, the ravages of fire were visible.
A pestilence likewise, no less formidable than the famine, made terrible ravages.
No part of the Roman world had escaped the ravages of war.
The Indian ravages in the Southern Territory grew steadily more and more serious.
Ravaging and the use of mercenaries and Indians were felt to be barbarous.
Can the country bear to be overrun, ravaged, and ruined by an enemy?
The conquerors followed him thither, and plundered and ravaged the city.
The Spook chuckled as he ravaged the unidentifiable goat parts on his plate.
The valleys which they ravaged were the granary of the revolutionary forces.
A good hive should be protected against the destructive ravages of mice in winter.
Sixth, the ravages of the moth easily prevented by the improved hive.
The French and Indians were indeed ravaging the country within twenty miles.
Of all these, syphilis has made the greatest ravages among the natives.
The tempest or tornado can typify only feebly the ravage that ensued.
Facts are wanting to give a minute topographical or numerical account of its ravages.
An immense horde of barbarians was ravaging and destroying the whole country.
And, after such a service as that, you ravage the soil of your benefactors!
They apparently made war for the mere pleasure of slaying, ravaging, and pillaging.
The latter had some anecdotes to tell of the ravages made by wasps.
The eleventh also devastated our country, in 1103, and the ravages were dreadful.
He had been ravaging, pursuing, defeating Roman troops, or being defeated by them.
This was the epoch of one of those great pestilences which ravaged Europe.
The Roman states were ravaged, and given up to the horrors of war.
As soon as pestilence had ceased its ravages, war resumed all its fury.
"The plague was ravaging Ephesus; I made them stone an old mendicant there."
He trembled as he reflected upon the ravages committed by his unthinking umbrella.
There were conflagrations of cities, ravages of fields, fierce battles, slaughter, misery, death.
We knew not, while wrestling with our woe, the extent of its ravages.
How those old elder bushes writhe as they resist the storm's ravages.
The measles, likewise, so fatal to Americans, made repeated ravages to a frightful extent.
The fair face of Nature was deformed as with the ravages of some loathsome disease.
What ravages had been caused by her austere deportment and her substantial charms.
During this month the ravages of grasshoppers are, in the West, very wide-spread.
In this way alluding to the ravages committed by them on their land.
The sculptures were adorned with colors, which have withstood the ravages of time.
He may fight the ravages of disease, he may ameliorate life in a hundred ways.
It is recorded that Attila, the fierce conqueror, ravaged the town with fire.
Unfortunately, also, the trees are ravaged by blight when that disease is epidemic.
The lilies are singularly exempt from the ravages of animals other than slugs.
Its ravages were imputed to the English government, which had been confiscating arms.
Traces of the ravages perpetrated by these monsters are visible to this day.
Like this strange creature the wind wanders about, alternately ravaging or lulling into security.
Cortez ravaged the country, mercilessly crushing all who offered the slightest resistance.
Becomes as the mad roaring of a legion of wild beasts, ravaging for blood.
The inhabitants are no longer to be robbed and ravaged; they have suffered enough.
With such a low physical standard the ravages of venereal diseases are tremendously increased
Monsters, in the form of dragons, griffins, or unicorns, no longer ravage the land.
Quiz stared off into the ravaged grove at the other side of the clearing.
Now he looked at her, and his ravaged face was terrifying to the girl.
The Indian will turn again, and the ravages of Indian warfare will be repeated.
The discontent was much increased by the growing fury of the Indian ravages.
The tender branches of the common birch, will prevent the ravages of mites.
The three great pestilences which ravaged England ran their course in Ireland also.
Here and there a hiatus in the text occurs, due to the ravages of time.
Method of stopping the Ravages of the Caterpillars from Shrubs, Plants, and Vegetables.
To stop the ravages of caterpillars in some forests trenches have had to be dug.
I am scarcely wrinkled at all, and I manage to conceal the ravages of time.
The ravages of war, the stress of successive bombardments, amply account for this.
Ramsey's picture of the ravages of these outlaws in his message to the legislature?
Jealousy and hatred enter the flowery home, and it is ravaged of its loveliness.
In 1847 the city suffered fearfully from the ravages of famine and famine fever.
More than all, the frontier was freed from the ravages of a merciless foe.
The fact is, the ravages attributed to the otter are of a local character.
These various ravages and skirmishes were but the prelude to a far more serious attack.
The people of Byzantium were ravaged by the pestilence of which I have already spoken.
What are the ravages on the frontier to poison and the dagger at our firesides?
We knew what ravages they made directly our troopers were imprudent enough to cluster together.
The most beautiful face is soon marred when disease begins its ravages in the body.
The passengers gazed through the windows at the ravaged fields and burnt hamlets.
The passengers gazed through the windows at the ravaged fields and burned hamlets.
The ports were blockaded and bombarded, while expeditions ravaged the fertile coast valleys.
He owed the resonant slowness of his speech, in fact, to the ravages of drink.
Not even the consummate art of Jezebel availed to repair the irretrievable ravages of time.
Many have been rebuilt and not a few have succumbed to the ravages of time.
Being an eyewitness to this, we can with certainty give an account of its ravages.
She would not have you near enough to discover the ravages of that horrid malady.
From turquoise blue to indigo, one goes from the most shame-faced influences to final ravages.
A sudden plague was sent upon the city, which ravaged all life like a blight.
Its ravages were terrible, amounting, according to some chroniclers, to a third of the population.
Nearly all of them were extensively flea-bitten, but some seemed to have escaped their ravages.
Each saw his dominions ravaged by pestilence in a manner beyond all former experience.
Every favoring wind blew them across the sea in shoals to burn and ravage.
Our kitchens are overrun and ravaged by Arabs that become, every year, more despotic.
Harry asked if there was any way of preventing the ravages of this destroyer.