What is "desolations"

Usage examples of "desolations".

Down there, south and east of the mountains, there’s nothing but bleak desolations, as far as you can travel.

Two middle-sized teams will go east and north, the eastern one to see whether the desolations there have shrunk any and the northern one to explore the limits of the ice.

The green grew brighter every moment, and as it did so, a faint, transparent blood-red mingled with, but did not mitigate, the blackness of the sky overhead and the rocky desolations about him.

Come, behold the workes of the Lord, what desolations hee hath made in the earth.

He saw desolations of ravens swoop overhead, and lofty eagles spin circles in the sky.

If I have no alternative but to oppose the Will of God, or trample on the desolations of my own heart, my choice is made.

Plainly the book was written under the mental desolations of the Third Degree, and I feel sure that none but the membership of that Degree can discover meanings in it.

Here and there, in grooved depressions among the snowy desolations of the upper altitudes, one glimpsed the extremity of a glacier, with its sea-green and honeycombed battlements of ice.

Others, pelted by Oklahoma dust storms, were jostled home in flatbeds cushioned by bright posters from carnivals buried in the wind-blown desolations of 1936 America.