desolation
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The shepherd, sure he will be implicated and afraid his sheep will die if he is sent to jail, heads for the hills and runs his flock far back among the granite desolations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You offer me empty lands and desolations, yet deny me the castles I require to reward my lords and bannermen.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The ancient Arsino� stood here; a few blocks of marble with the cross attest the presence of Venetian Christians; but now—the desolation of desolations.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Vocabulary lists containing desolation
The Declaration of Independence
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Fahrenheit 451
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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