What is "desolated"

Usage examples of "desolated".

The bad part is, of course, that such a band would have to go straight across the Desolated Land.

Your job would be to get through the Desolated Land without being seen.

The one, of all of them, that makes most sense to me is the suggestion that the Desolated Lands are used for the purpose of renewal--that the evil forces of the world at times may need a resting period in which to rededicate their purpose and enrich themselves, recharging their strength.

The man who propounded this theory sought to show a weakening of the evil done for some years preceding the harrying of a desolated land, and in a few years after that a great increase in evil.

But this did not come to pass, for it was then that the Evil struck in Macedonia and later spread to much of Central Europe, desolating all the land as this land south of us now is desolated, creating panic among those assembled for the crusade and blocking the way they were to take.

About the whole country there was a sense of peacefulness and wellbeing, and this was strange, for this was the Desolated Land.

In this hermit cave it was snug enough, but beyond the cave lay the Desolated Land with its freight of evil, with the burned-out village only a mile or so away, the church the only building standing.

The area that had been desolated was large, and it had seemed unlikely that the Harriers could keep watch over all of it, or would even try to keep watch over all of it.

The plan from the very beginning had been that a small party, traveling quietly and swiftly, would be able to slip unobserved through the Desolated Land.

For this, he thought, for so frail a thing as these few sheets of parchment, he and the others (the others, with the exception of Conrad, not knowing) were marching deep into the Desolated Land, where only God might know what would be waiting for them.

The more quickly they were on their way, the faster they got through the Desolated Land, the better it would be.

He must still conceive of them as the ever-present enemy, and this was especially true in this place, the Desolated Land.

The Harriers had swept through this land, killing off the inhabitants, burning villages and farmsteads, making the area into a desolated land.

They would have gone into the Desolated Land and that would be the last of them.

Not through the Desolated Land, for that route had proved too dangerous.