desolate

• He is represented as passing by a village (said to mean Jerusalem) when it was desolate, and saying: "How will God revive this after its death?" —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• There is no one here in this desolate, awful place--not even a wild beast Stop!" —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
• If we should have cities desolate, and our land consumed, if we should take up Jeremiah’s lamentation, and our case be made parallel to theirs, we have then been punished less than our iniquities deserved There are some godless people so black mouthed as to speak against heaven when God correcteth them, they follow the counsel of Job’s wife, curse God and die. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• Alone and desolate--parted from your brothers--parted from me From you, Vincent Assuredly. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
• I am desolate, and I shall die! —  Cruel As The Grave

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