war-wasted

How petty, or how obvious, these concerns would have seemed to the deslocados viewing this corner of Mozambique's war-wasted countryside two weeks later.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

HARRIS: Face to face for 150 minutes, two leaders working to get a war-wasted Iraq on a peaceful track.

CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006 2006

HARRIS: Face to face for 150 minutes, two leaders working to get a war-wasted Iraq on a peaceful track.

CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006 2006

Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

Burlington Heights, where, with two hundred and forty war-wasted men, he effected a junction with Vincent's command, which had been compelled for a time to raise the siege of Fort George, and lake up its old position.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

To-day I visited the two graves side by side in the same war-wasted garden, and thought of the tearful Christmas awaiting thousands in the mountains. '

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

It was in this crisis when he was back in his war-wasted state, fighting despondency and needing, as never before, the love and devotion of

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1913

Then they moved slowly across war-wasted France, Mary and

Shelley Sydney Waterlow 1911

They cherish a joyful hope, in which I fully concur, that between the fifth of November and the fourth of March next, a number of the governors and other dignitaries who in the absurd name of republicanism and loyalty have for years been piling debts and taxes upon their war-wasted States, will follow the wholesome example of Bullock of Georgia and seek the shades of private life.

During His Campaign for President 1906

Evidently Zuzu, king of the northern city of Opis, considered that the occasion was opportune to overcome the powerful Sumerian conqueror, and at the same time establish Semitic rule over the subdued and war-wasted cities.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904