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October 26, 2009 at 3:30 am tat looks sooo desolat
INVISIBLE PIANO - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Whilst page after page paints the glories of the hero who plunged his country into war, and brought desolat on to the doors of his people, a few brief and passing lines suffice for the sagacious statesman who has honored his humanity by preventing slaughter.
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Now, I will have him dream of Beautiful Eyes & Beautiful Lakes & pleasant Boat Rides on Said Laks & the very pleasant Moonlight walks over Many Romantic paths around our desolat litle village, but he think it is one of the most beautiful Spots in Virginia I have Just painted the Ladies & (yourself) & the town and the country in the most Glowing collors that imagination could paint.
Augusta County: James H. Blakemore to Mary Anna Sibert, September 11, 1864 James H. Blakemore 1864
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Montmerency 2 leagues from Quebecq, where was a great village where now is seene a desolat country, that is, for woods and forests, nor more nor lesse then what small bushes nigh the river's side in the place called the Cape de Magdelaine.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Our armes, which we putt uppon some sticks tyed together of such wood as that desolat place could afford, to keepe them from the weatt.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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The dead weare eaten & the living weare burned with a small fire to the rigour of cruelties, which comforted the desolat to see them revenged of the death of their relations that was so served.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Alas! what haue we lost? we are naked, & ar as barren brests, desolat & disconsolate.
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a "desolat [ion]" beyond the capacity of the urn to picture or explain and thus initiates the highly-wrought ambiguities of the closing stanza.
Ode on a Grecian Urn 2003
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