devastating

THROUGH massacres of each other's citizens China and the United States had been four times plunged into devastating wars, when, in the year 1994, arose a Philosopher in Madagascar, who laid before the Governments of the two distracted countries the following MODUS VIVENDI:

"A devastating sickness has fallen on my village, and all my wives are dying," yelled Deesa, really in tears this time.

The wild-ox revelled in dense herbage that often concealed his whole body; gray, black, and yellow elephants of the most gigantic size burst headlong, like a living hurricane, through the forests, breaking, rending, tearing down, devastating every thing in their path; upon the woody slopes of the hills trickled cascades and springs flowing northward; there, too, the hippopotami bathed their huge forms, splashing and snorting as they frolicked in the water, and lamantines, twelve feet long, with bodies like seals, stretched themselves along the banks, turning up toward the sun their rounded teats swollen with milk.

After that we will destroy the city itself and march through the Land of Oz, burning and devastating as we go."

After waiting only forty seconds this time, I spread my arms abroad and thundered out the devastating syllables of this word of words:

Jaggers, in the same devastating strain: "What does this fellow want?"

Flat, offering nothing but a tiny bay for the convenience of embarkation, and under the protection of the governor, who went shares with them, smugglers made use of it as a provisional entrepot , at the expense of not killing the game or devastating the garden.

I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.

If love is a devastating fire which melts the whole being into one mountain torrent, Mary was no more in love with Denham than she was in love with her poker or her tongs.

HS2 has had a "devastating" impact on life in a Staffordshire village, with homes bought up and set to be bulldozed to make way for the controversial line.

Leon's family said: "Leon and Michael were the best of friends and to lose both in such tragic circumstances is truly devastating."

The devastating floods in Kerala have left over 300 dead in a fortnight and displaced one million people.