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  • However, thou desolatest me by thy departure, and but that it is forbidden to me, I would certainly oppose thee and hinder thee from returning to thy country and kinsfolk.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “O my son, thou desolatest me and I fear for thee.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Verily, thou gladdenest our country with thy presence, O my son, and thou desolatest shine own land by reason of shine absence.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Tis the desolatest land almost in all Cornwall, and by keeping to the furze-brakes and spying from one to the next, he steered his patient down for the coast and brought him safe to the cliffs over Cawse Ogo.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Answered she, "O my son, thou desolatest me and I fear for thee."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • And thou, howling Remorse, that desolatest thine own habitation, and feedest upon thy mother.

    The Robbers Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • And thou, howling Remorse, that desolatest thine own habitation, and feedest upon thy mother.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Then rejoined the old man, "Verily, thou gladdenest our country with thy presence, O my son, and thou desolatest shine own land by reason of shine absence.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • However, thou desolatest me by thy departure, and but that it is forbidden to me, I would certainly oppose thee and hinder thee from returning to thy country and kinsfolk. "

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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