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No country can support such willful waste; thus, after many years of ravage, this beautiful country has become almost barren of cattle.
The barbaric invasions which had periodically ravaged the Eastern empires even in their day of power were repelled with a terrible vigor.
Then a dreadful fire broke out, which ravaged and swept the town, leaving scarcely a house uninjured, and nearly every citizen homeless.
He found it easy to overrun the open country, to ravage the crops, drive off the cattle, and burn the villages and homesteads.
If he in all his prowess could be broken, then what chance did he himself have against the ceaseless ravages of his world?
They were homeless and penniless in a country, that had been rendered more or less desolate, by the ravages of war and bloodshed.
The sagacious reader will naturally enough conclude that boys, thus educated, would, afterwards, of necessity, fall victims to the ravages of the Bibliomania!
It is constantly ravaged by brigands, so that there is not a house in it which does not bear the marks of fire and devastation.
In the dim light Victoria could see that her face was rather worn, and that the ravages of time had been clumsily repaired.
The export of coffee has almost entirely ceased, and the cause is ascribed to the ravages of an insect which destroys the bushes.
The caterpillar of another little moth takes its station in damp old books, between the leaves, and there commits great ravages.
He ravaged the outlying districts of the fertile province, levied forced contributions, or induced the inhabitants to pay blackmail to escape his forays.
It was ravaged by pestilence at the beginning of this century, and they say three hundred thousand people died of disease and famine.
Let a cloud of locusts descend upon a hundred square miles of this territory, and what means do you possess to arrest their ravages?...
Even before the arrival of the relieving fleet, scurvy had shown itself; and its ravages continued, and extended, as months went on.
Unopposed, they would continue their ravages; and the land that had flowed with milk and honey would soon be one vast ruin.
They were a wild, impetuous horde, and five hundred years of their history is full of assassinations of sultans and general ravage and bloodshed.
Renewed and vigorous efforts at that point, however, soon stayed its ravages, and in the course of a short time it was finally extinguished.
The mountain peak lay bare and cheerless, the earth was rent and ravaged, nothing was visible save rough rubble and colorless heather.
The district round was ravaged again and again by the English forces, and several times the town itself was besieged in vain.
He directed his attention to the raising of indigo, but was soon forced to abandon this also, because of the ravages of an insect.
The original objects of the agitation were entirely lost sight of in the disturbances, which were merely the unreasoning ravages of a wild mob.
The fearful ravages of war are visible on all sides, in the charred walls, solitary chimneys, smoking ruins, and waste all around.
A lowing of cattle, grunting of hogs, cackling and crowing of fowls, the spoils of many a ravaged barnyard, rose on the night air.
Running before it, and stopping occasionally to take breath, I looked back to behold its frightful ravages, and to drink in its savage magnificence.
The destruction of hundreds of thousands of Chinese, the ravaging of their great cities, may fail to accomplish the object we have in view.
They notoriously suffered much from the ravages of malaria, and such as survived the baleful effects of this disease, escaped with impaired constitutions.
Similar paintings appear, with the same imperfection, on every great edifice, in places which have allowed them shelter against the ravages of time.
Pestilence was added to the ravages of war and the woes of transplantation, and it raged alike among the conquerors and the conquered.
There were three deep wrinkles between her eyes; otherwise Aunt Sarah did not show in her countenance many of the ravages of time.
To his relief the one proved to be clear and of good color, the other betrayed ravages of dissipation only in a hint of heaviness.
Few places have been so frequently devastated by fire, flood, and earthquakes, or so often ravaged by war, as has this interesting city.
In addition, a hi-way passes close to the hotel with motorists ravaging the noise level at all times of the day and night.
Deterioration and demolition set in rapidly when wind and weather began to ravage the wholly unprotected edifice, when unscrupulous collectors wrought havoc unchecked.
The answer of the ravaged region to the murder and the burning is a steadiness of courage, a busy and sane life of normal activity.
"Do, sir, for Heaven's sake, do something, do anything you possibly can, to stay the ravages of the rum fiend in this place!"
They had evidently a great abhorrence of the Egyptians on account of the cruel ravages that had been committed on their northern boundaries.
All feeling of merriment gave way before the contemplation of the ravaging blast that was hourly doing irreparable damage to the growing crops.
Continuing their invasion, the combined forces ravaged the lands, sacked villages, putting the inhabitants to the sword and securing much booty.
This singular rite was believed to protect the corn from blight and the ravages of worms and vermin, and to insure a good crop.
The disease is slow in its progress; for some time confines its ravages to the sub-horny tissues unseen, and is quite unattended with pain.
He ravaged up to the very gates of Constantinople, and only a humiliating treaty preserved his dominion to the "invincible Augustus" of the East.
Some trite phrase about the "ravages of time" crossed John's mind and gave him a disagreeable sensation, for which it was hard to account.
Prudent and conciliatory in temperament, he tried to dispel as best he could the bitter recollections of the war and to repair its ravages.
They terrorized all the great Assemblies, from the Constituent Assembly to the Convention, and for ten years they helped to ravage France.
The country suffered unparalleled abuses; crops were ravaged, cotton burned, and the magnificent palaces of the southern planter licked up by flames.
That night we were in comfortable billets in private houses and farms near the town which had been untouched by the ravages of war.
Finding that they had taken refuge in their forests, they mercilessly ravaged the open country, cutting the corn and burning the hamlets.
Protection was also more injurious, for being in operation its ravages were already felt, whereas the other, happily, was still at the Utopian stage.
The sable figures, who, with wearied steps, as it appeared, travelled through these scenes of desolation and ravage, seemed assimilated to them in appearance.
Only the submarine telephone cables remained unaffected, and by them was transmitted the most astonishing news of the ravages of the storm.
Every muscle was stiff and sore, and he smiled ruefully, pressing and prodding himself as if to ascertain the extent of the ravage.
During the memorable insurrection of 1816, by which the neighboring parishes were dreadfully ravaged, he was suddenly called from home on military duty.
The next morning, when she came down to breakfast, her face was haggard with those ravaging tears, and with the fatigue of hating.
We always remonstrated, but rather feebly; and now that both flocks belong to us, we are rather embarrassed in stopping the wolf's ravages.
The effect of spiritual suffering, as conveyed in the pallid countenance and ravaged figure, in the last act, was that of noble pathos.
The peculiarity of these hurricanes was that they ravaged the different islands at different dates, and were therefore supposed to be different storms.
Disease, even plague, constantly ravaged the land; and the resources of modern surgery and modern anesthetics were not present to curb their ravages.
Fire has ravaged their beautiful city, soldiers of the color of their servants, guard the crossings and pace the pavement with bayoneted muskets.
Nor is this the worst; the climate is so unfriendly to human life that the native population has dwindled away under the ravages of malaria.
There were great banks of geraniums in every corner where they could be piled, and the whole neighborhood had been ravaged for roses.
Many of the crew died soon after going on shore, but the transfer from the ship appeared to diminish the ravages of the scurvy.
They built castles without royal license, and from these private fortresses they sallied forth to ravage, rob, and murder in all directions.
That great and rich section of the empire was invaded and frightfully ravaged, and its conquerors never afterwards left its fertile fields.
Amidst so many ravages and so much destruction, we see a love of order secretly animating the human species, and forestalling its utter ruin.
Until quite recent times they were regarded as the figment of excited imaginations, and wise men smiled at the wild stories of their ravages.
This wind has been a constant menace to shipping at anchor; the new breakwater on the Monarch Shoal was designed to resist its ravages.
It has probably been found by experience that the corpse, when thus protected, is safe from the ravages of scavenger jackals and pariah dogs.
Grave, melancholy-looking men, who talked much and ominously of the prevailing disorder, and the impossibility of strangers escaping from its fearful ravages.
The ravages of pestilence, famine and fever had left them unmoved and the present visitation of death they were meeting in quiet and silence.
I dared not put it into words ... the crushing presentiment of ravage and crime, fire and sword, devastating this miracle of human hands.
He took the rifle and carefully went over the camp to see what ravages had been made by the storm and the bloodthirsty beasts.
Your mines will be ravaged, your people will be enslaved, blood redder than the angry spot of the greater world will flow in rivers.
Although it was a time of terrible suffering from the ravages of the Indian war, the temper of the magistrates was harsher than ever.
He was so indefatigable in preventing the ravages of the frequent fires of those days, that it was said his very horse smelt it out.
He showed her what few mortals have seen, a naked soul with its scars, its stains, and its ravages from flame and convulsion.
That is no little cause for anxiety to this wretched city, in addition to the ravages of enemies and other disasters that ordinarily afflict it.
The Germans, while retiring, had ravaged and set fire to the villages, taking with them all the male inhabitants, driving them before them.
We talked of the ravages made last year by pestilence in every quarter of the world; and of the dreadful consequences of a second visitation.
They were truly indefatigable, and by a stroke of good luck we possess a piece of their workmanship which has escaped the ravages of time.
Through their ravages; and they will gather their ships, their chariots, their foot soldiers, to seize the city of Tyre the King's handmaid.
Here again the government has been obliged to put in costly works to stop the ravages of the mingling torrents in the soft alluvial banks.
He yearned to see her again, to mark how far disease had ravaged, to show her that though all others were indifferent, he was not.
Narrowly escaping the ravages of the fire of 1666, this beautiful building is one of the most perfect specimens of early Gothic architecture in England.
It was certainly a remarkable circumstance that, from that day on, the cholera actually ceased its ravages among the inhabitants of the village.
These plants, which are more or less succulent, are usually protected from the ravages of animal life by a formidable array of spines and prickles.
No great battles were fought, but constant incursions upon the territories of enemies were made; cities were surprised, countries were ravaged, and great booty obtained.
Drink, opium, and poverty have contributed to their ruin, and the tribe is scourged by the ravages of a disease to which they were new.
In that year it is recorded in the English annals that Norwegians came in three ships and committed great ravages on the coasts of Wessex.
Hunted, haunted, ravaged and lost, was the face, and the long gray mustache, covering the chin almost, seemed to cover an immeasurable depravity.
The Scythians, according to the too favorable account by our chief authority, were content with their victory, and moved homewards, ravaging the country.
Subsequent events led to its desertion for a more advantageous location, and the ravages of time have left little to tell of its former state.
Many of the fairest portions of the town had been laid waste by the destructive ravages of incendiary fires, and had never been rebuilt.
Sennacherib ravaged the country, burnt the towns, and carried away with him all the valuables, the flocks and herds, and the inhabitants.
The Chinese enjoy, on the contrary, blessings and a peace worthy of being envied by many nations which religion divides, ravages, and often destroys.
The state suffered greatly from the ravages of Cornwallis, who rode roughly over it, although her sons toiled heroically in defense of their firesides.
If this were done before they begin to deposit their eggs on the ground, the ravages of the canker would in a great measure be prevented.
All the figures have suffered considerably from the ravages of time, but retain much of their interest and charm in spite of such mutilation.
The silent ravages of the destroyer, who carries away pillars and stone, for the erection of other edifices, has been going on for centuries.
In fact its sensibilities were so keen, that when the Turks ravaged the country in 1538 it wept tears mingled with drops of blood.