Walking along planks, studying these friezes of desolation, I found myself wondering whose boots lay ahead, poking round a corner.
It was tunneled right under the Concourse, near Mount Eden, in some marvel of engineering, but it still cut the Concourse in two and created desolation on both sides of its path.
Desolation after desolation has swept over me; but each hour of happiness the treacherous trader, Love, sold me I have paid a thousand hours of grief!
Your thoughts fly northwards in the great desolation. They do not know where to look for me.
I had reflected then that, whatever s cenes of desolation lay ahead of us, I never feared one more brutal than this, and I reflected now that it had no single happy memory for me.
The main street was already nearly deserted, its bright street lamps increasing his sense of desolation.
The luckiest will awake to find themselves amid the beautiful desolation of Rannoch Moor, where the West Highland Line is the only form of transport through the wilderness.
Yet, thinks Professor Catling, amid this wild desolation, Darwin began to hatch a plot.
But the courage was perhaps born of desolation.
The session hall presents a scene of desolation with all the deputies' seats, diplomats', public, and press galleries destroyed, and all the iron pillars supporting the dome twisted out of shape.
By long, over short months, stirred up the whole city the loneliness and desolation.
Blue sky and sunlight are more appropriate for the latter unless you want to show the desolation of a resort beach in winter.
He wrote later of the “material and spiritual desolation” he saw there, though it took two decades for his faith in Poland’s socialist system to erode entirely.
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