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Sentences ending with desolate

The hall of their triumph is waste and desolate. [4]
The desert was not desolate. [11]
It was untenanted, neglected; its windows were unwashed, a pane of glass was broken; its threshold appeared untrodden, its whole aspect forlorn and desolate. [6]
They sat like men without hope, yet with the proud, bitter mien of those who had known good and had lost it, had seen content and now were desolate. [11]
He had no interests left; they had paled and perished, one by one, and left him desolate. [5]
Presently the sounds grew fainter, and exquisitely painful, and now a low sob seemed to pass through all the heart of the organ, and then silence fell, and in the sacred pause, Hepnon came out among them all, pale and desolate. [11]
Hard by these gravestones of dead years, and forming a part of the ruin which some pains had been taken to render habitable in modern times, were two small dwellings with sunken windows and oaken doors, fast hastening to decay, empty and desolate. [12]
His spirits were gone, he was desolate. [5]
My home is desolate. [6]
It was the close of winter, and his fire was almost out, He appeared very old and very desolate. [5]

Short sentences using desolate

How desolate her heart seemed! [10]
A desolate silence everywhere. [5]
Palestine is desolate and unlovely. [5]
She is desolate. [5]

More example sentences with the word desolate in them

Whether Dudley Veneer would ever find a breathing image near enough to his ideal one, to fill the desolate chamber of his heart, or not, was very doubtful. [6]
Oh those high, wild, desolate moors, up above the whole world, and the very realms of silence I Home to dinner at two. [14]
So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
In one tent, where a young mother was shaking with the chill of a severe attack of fever, Miriam asked the pallid Milcah to bring her medicine chest, and the desolate wife went on her errand with joyous alacrity. [10]
To the east were the dreary wastes of Labrador, to the west were the desolate plains and hills, stretching to the valley of the Saskatchewan. [11]
The grassy slopes were as green and smooth and desolate of life as if they had never been disturbed. [5]
The rocky landscape was wild and desolate, and the path to be climbed steep. [10]
Of course it was her imagination, but it was like a voice which came from some desolate place, distant, arid and alien. [11]
No pulpit eloquence was ever so moving and so beautiful as this outcast's picture of the first Mormon pilgrimage across the plains, struggling sorrowfully onward to the land of its banishment and marking its desolate way with graves and watering it with tears. [5]
His voice, too, was desolate and distant. [11]
To Guida, who was both of the sea and of the land, fearless as to either, it was neither terrible nor desolate to be alone with the storm. [11]
When, after an unhappy marriage and many desolate days, she had regained her former bright cheerfulness and saw her house become the centre of the intellectual life of the city, she had striven until now to extend the same welcome to all her guests. [10]
With blast of trumpets and clash of cymbals love had again set forth to enter, with triumphant joy, the soul which had of late been so desolate, so impoverished. [10]
Then they gazed together at the oasis and the desolate stony valleys of the mountain region at their feet. [10]
We were urged to treat the princesses with the utmost courtesy and consideration, and we perceived that their reception really demanded respect; for the palace, which we had found empty and desolate, was refurnished from roof to foundation. [10]
It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing. [5]
And we ought to be more thankful than we are that there are so many desolate and wearisome and fantastic places, and so many tiresome and unattractive people in this lovely world. [4]
The lights in the streets and shops made them feel yet more desolate, for with their help, night and darkness seemed to come on faster. [12]
The inn on the Riffelberg is nearly eight thousand feet high, almost two thousand feet above the hut on Mount Washington; yet it is not so cold and desolate as the latter. [4]
The prophetess kissed the poor desolate wife's forehead, glanced at her as if she had neglected her in some way, and then questioned the messengers with urgent eagerness concerning their news of Reuben, who had been dragged to the mines. [10]
Munich did seem the horriblest place, the most desolate place, the most unendurable place!--and the rooms were so small, the conveniences so meagre, and the porcelain stoves so grim, ghastly, dismal, intolerable! [5]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
Again and again the doubly desolate woman looked back toward the companion whom she had abandoned in her suffering until they reached Frankfort. [10]
The head of the desolate wretch lifted, the eyes glared at David for an instant, as though to see whether he was being mocked, and then the spare figure stretched itself, and the outcast stood up. [11]
Then he remembered the desolate smithy in the narrow market-place and the dreary home, recollected that he was thirty years old, and still had no wife. [10]
The only thing that appeared to impress him seriously was Molokai, the desolate island where the lepers made their cheerless prison-home. [11]
I cannot bear that all my old companions should launch away into the married state, and leave me alone to tread this desolate and sterile shore. [4]
I was fervently thankful when we had gotten well up on the desolate hillside and outstripped them and left them jawing and gesticulating in the rear. [5]
She stood gazing tearlessly and fixedly into the desolate room, whose walls but a few minutes before had been echoing with joy and gladness, and it seemed to her that the deserted guest-chamber must be like her own heart. [10]
This roaring avalanche swept out of Melbourne and left it desolate, Sunday-like, paralyzed, everything at a stand-still, the ships lying idle at anchor, all signs of life departed, all sounds stilled save the rasping of the cloud-shadows as they scraped across the vacant streets. [5]
Mathilde is better--so still and desolate, yet not wild; but her memory is all gone, all save for that "Francois Bigot is a devil. [11]
She shines, a star in the midnight sky, giving comfort to the sorrowing heart; she, who has languished in grief, pours balm into the wounded souls of the desolate and bereaved, and gives health and refreshment to the suffering. [10]
No more desolate spot might be imagined. [11]
Never had she seemed to herself so desolate, so lonely, so useless as to-day. [10]
Nothing, in this scorching, desolate land could look so refreshing as this pure water flashing in the lamp-light; nothing could look so beautiful, nothing could sound so delicious as this mimic rain to ears long unaccustomed to sounds of such a nature. [5]
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and I will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. [5]
He was now ready to learn, by what ways the future should show, why this man, of such unusual force and power, should have lived at a desolate post in Labrador for twenty-five years. [11]
There is a quality of refinement in their granite robustness; their desolate, bare heights and sky-scraping ridges are rosy in the dawn and violet at sunset, and their profound green gulfs are still mysterious. [4]
Notwithstanding her father's presence, she had never been so desolate as among these ladies and gentlemen, nearly all of whom were strangers. [10]
What forlorn people one sees stranded on their desolate shores! [6]
I have known one of these angels ask, of her own accord, that a desolate middle-aged man, whom nobody seemed to know, should be presented to her by the hostess. [6]
We were prisoners on a desolate island, in aggravating proximity to friends who were for the present helpless to aid us; and what was still more uncomfortable was the reflection that we had neither food nor water. [5]
During the cruise of the Adhemar she had often watched, in the gathering darkness, those revolving lights on headland or shoal that spread now a bright band across the sea, and again left the waters desolate in the night. [9]
I can imagine nothing more desolate than this solitary church, or the approach to it. [4]
A restaurant would not pay in such a stony, forbidding, desolate place. [5]
But Charlotte could not have slept if she had gone,--could not have rested on her desolate couch. [14]
The thoughts that moved him could not be exactly expressed in words, but doubtless a vision of the desolate forge, where he would stand alone by the fire without Ulrich, rose before his mind. [10]
So, on the morning after the wholly unexpected arrival of the owner's daughter, the "garden" in front of the white house, but yesterday a desolate field, resembled an encampment, whose busy life was varied and noisy enough. [10]
He accuses its master, Thomas Hunt, of attempting to rob him of his plots and observations, and to leave him "alone on a desolate isle, to the fury of famine, And all other extremities. [4]
Greatness, I was mad for that, and my madness has brought me to this desolate end--alone. [11]
So he could leave her without anxiety; but she, even in the hour of parting, was too proud to offer him a glimpse of her desolate life, whose fairest ornaments were memories. [10]
In the Bitter Lakes, whose entire length was to be traversed, the ships had more room, and after a long voyage through dazzling sunlight, and along desolate shores, the boat anchored at nightfall at Heroopolis. [10]
The night after instructing Virginia, I walked over the desolate "divide" and down to Gold Hill, and lectured there. [5]
At four o'clock in the afternoon we were winding down a mountain of dreary and desolate lava to the sea, and closing our pleasant land journey. [5]
Rather eternal torture in another world, united to the man I love, than painless, joyless mere existence in a desolate, incomprehensible, unknown region! [10]
I ask him if he can think of our desolate state, of our past sorrows, of our dark future, and still unpityingly foist upon us this wreck, this ruin, this tottering swindle, this gnarled and blighted and sapless vagabond from Oregon's hospitable shores? [5]
The desert of ice that stretched far and wide about us was wild and desolate beyond description, and the perils which beset us were so great that at times I was minded to turn back. [5]
As dawn broke I beheld the flat, gray waters of the Sound stretching away to the eastward, and there was the boat at the desolate wharf beside the warehouse, her steam rising white in the chill morning air. [9]
She whispered: "Oh, how did she take it--that poor, desolate mother? [5]
It made the house seem doubly desolate to hear the wind howling and the rain beating upon the roofs. [6]
Treasure these happy hours of a first, pure love; hold them fast in the chambers of memory, for to every human being there must come, sooner or later, a present so sad and desolate, that the beautiful past is all he has to live upon. [10]
He soon won his way to the old man's heart, and to his laboratory, which had been developed through years of patience and ingenious toil in this desolate spot. [11]
I then told him to take her away; and he did, at intervals, shifting her to different parts of the grounds in my absence, so that the desolate voice would startle us from unexpected quarters. [4]
Of the mid-night highway robbery joke played upon me with revolvers at my head on the windswept and desolate Gold Hill Divide, no witness is left but me, the victim. [5]
It was to her, not to power, that he was indebted for every blissful hour, and now that she had gone, how desolate was the void in his heart! [10]
With a sore heart and the desolate feeling of being now utterly alone, Hermon again landed and ordered that his uncle's harmamaxa should convey him to the necropolis. [10]
During his convalescence he remembered them and they conjured up the doubt whether Barine could endure the solitude of this desolate cliff, whether she would not lose the bright serenity of soul whose charm constantly increased. [10]
One idle afternoon he had sowed the seeds of a little storm in the heart of a woman, and a whirlwind was driving through her life to parch and make desolate the green fields of her youth and womanhood. [11]
He fell on Hawkins's neck sobbing, and said: "Oh, mourn with me my friend, mourn for my desolate house: death has smitten my last kinsman and I am Earl of Rossmore--congratulate me! [5]
We hate to have it go longer desolate and tenantless, but cannot help it. [5]
A fine rain had set in before we found the square, and here indeed one felt a certain desolate satisfaction; despite the wreckage there the spirit of the ancient town still poignantly haunted it. [9]
She saw the foundations of Baalbec, and Thebes, and Ephesus laid; she saw these villages grow into mighty cities, and amaze the world with their grandeur--and she has lived to see them desolate, deserted, and given over to the owls and the bats. [5]
And then he found himself shipped on an English vessel, and he had lost his discharge-papers; and "Listen, your honor," said he, calmly extending his right hand, "here I am cast away on this desolate island with nothing before me but wind and weather. [4]
Many watering-places look forlorn and desolate in the intervals of "the season. [6]
If the empire falls into the power of the barbarians, Rome will be made desolate, and all the provinces laid waste which thrive under her protection. [10]
Mud barges were fairy palaces; Arab punts beautiful gondolas; the ragged Egyptians on the banks became picturesque; and the desolate country behind them had a wide vestibule of splendour. [11]
They brought her dreams, sleeping or waking; dreams a thousand times more delightful than her real, desolate existence. [10]
Three sisters had done this,--then two, the other sister dropping off from the walk,--and now one was left desolate, to listen for echoing steps that never came,--and to hear the wind sobbing at the windows, with an almost articulate sound. [14]
The men were discharged, the tools were housed, the hopeful noise of pickman and driver ceased, and the mining camp had that desolate and mournful aspect which always hovers over a frustrated enterprise. [5]
That little narrow, desolate, unpeopled, oblong streak of grass and gravel, lost in the remote wastes of the vast continent--why, it's like representing a billiard table--a discarded one. [5]
Our homes are desolate, our friends are dead. [5]
How dreary, how desolate the bright, flower-decked room seemed now, for the first time the Eletto felt really deserted. [10]
I was indescribably desolate and alone among all those vain, bedizened strangers. [10]
If only I could go away myself--away from here, from the desolate house, and take her with me! [10]
But nothing now could be more desolate than the rows of unending mulberry-trees, pruned down to the stumps, through which we rode all the afternoon. [4]
The desolate heart clung to the prophetess, and she accompanied her when she practised in the huts of the poor the medical skill she had learned and took them medicines and alms. [10]
As time went by, Luc became quieter, but the look of his face was more desolate. [11]
The Eucharist was brought now to that poor soul that had yearned for it with such unutterable longing all these desolate months. [5]
The crisis of bereavement has an acute pang which goads to exertion; the desolate after-feeling sometimes paralyses. [14]
By noon it begins to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the phoebe-bird. [4]
The world will be desolate, life will no longer be worth living, if the iron foot of Rome crushes our independence and freedom. [10]
As Hermon looked back for the last time, the flat, desolate tongue of land appeared like a line of gray mist in the southeastern horizon; but over it hovered, like a gloomy thundercloud, the flocks of vultures and ravens, whose numbers were constantly increasing. [10]
That old patriot, Attorney-General Toucey, burrowed through the musty papers of the Fishers and discovered one more chance for the desolate orphans--interest on that original award of $8,873 from date of destruction of the property (1813) up to 1832! [5]
But all desolate and unpeopled as it was, it was illustrious ground. [5]
Instead of the aforetime Saturday-evening flutter and bustle and shopping and larking, the streets were empty and desolate. [5]
You know how absent-minded Twichell is, and how desolate his face is when he is in that frame. [5]
I never beheld a scene so utterly desolate as this entrance of the Mississippi. [5]
The monastery is a desolate old shed now. [4]

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