What is "devastations"

Usage examples of "devastations".

Their rapid devastations stretched from the river to the foot of the Pyrenees.

The king of the Goths was informed by trembling messengers, that John the Sanguinary spread the devastations of war from the Apennine to the Hadriatic.

The memory of these devastations (for Abderame did not spare the country or the people) was long preserved by tradition.

The troupe went along the coast, circling inland to avoid the gray devastations which lie along the water.

With two such pieces of evidence you cannot help but speculate that the Evil, in its devastations, is acting to keep us as we are, in our misery, so that it can feed and grow strong upon that very misery.

He believes it feeds on human misery and that the devastations, which come at regular intervals, may be periods when it rejuvenates itself.

The people seized and cherished these ideas with so much the more avidity, as they found in them a consolation under that deplorable state of suffering into which they had been plunged by the devastations of successive conquests, and the barbarous despotism of their governments.

What a sea of Roman blood was shed, what desolations and devastations were occasioned in Italy by wars social, wars servile wars civil!

Their rapid devastations stretched from the river to the foot of the Pyrenees.

But the madness of some of their successors, the vices of others, the malicious intrigues of an envious and corrupting neighbor, the tracasserie of the Directory, the usurpations, the havoc, and devastations of your Attila, and the equal usurpations, depredations and oppressions of your hypocritical deliverers, will form a mournful period in the history of man, a period of which the last chapter will not be seen in your day or mine, and one which I still fear is to be written in characters of blood.

In 1915, deciding there would no longer be an Armenian question if there were no Armenians, the Turks began marching them into the Syrian desert and murdering them along the way to speed the devastations wrought by starvation and epidemics.

Biotechnology provided the means for hideous wars, but it also provided the defenses which prevented their devastations from becoming permanent and freed humankind from the oppressions of the Old Reproductive System.

Bainbridge, the great mathematician of Oxford, was as far above the moon as the moon is above the earth, and the sequel of it was that infinite slaughters and devastations followed it both in Germany and other countries.

How prevent the devastations with which the convicts threatened the plateau?