ravage

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The group has engaged Jessie Ravage, a certified restoration specialist, and Fred Grover, an architectural engineer to plan the futures of the buildings that remain.

From Forbes • Jul. 18, 2014

Oh! wouldst thou love, then bid adieu to peace, Then fears will come, and jealousies intrude, Ravage your bosom, and disturb your quiet, E'en pleasure to excess will be a pain.

From The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy by Moses, Montrose Jonas

A Fire also had a part in its Destruction, and committed such Ravage that Magdebourg, which was one of the finest Cities in Germany, was intirely reduc'd to Ashes.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Where will the Ravage stop? the Ruin where?

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Green fields before us and our native shore, By fever, from polluted air incurred, Ravage was made, for which no knell was heard.

From Lyrical Ballads 1798 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor