1 The noise cracked like a whip in the still room and suddenly her rage was gone, and there was desolation in her heart.
2 Soon it would be night and they would be alone in this desolation that was death.
3 This desolation went to her heart as nothing she had ever experienced.
4 Cold wind and rain, mud and bare trees, silence and desolation.
5 Rhett had left town the hour before with Bonnie and Prissy, and desolation was added to Scarlett's shame and anger.
6 Each day it seemed impossible to get through the desolation of not seeing him.
7 But, here and there, a dark green tuft rose in the midst of the desolation; the earliest fruits of a soil that had been fattened with human blood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 8 In short, it was a scene of wildness and desolation; and it appeared as if all who had profanely entered it had been stricken, at a blow, by the relentless arm of death.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 9 His soul traversed a period of desolation in which the sacraments themselves seemed to have turned into dried-up sources.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 10 We had to take some of our provisions, too, for we were in a perfect desolation, and, so far as we could see through the snowfall, there was not even the sign of habitation.
11 The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation.
12 In about forty-five seconds I found myself again in the waiting-room with the compassionate secretary, who, full of desolation and sympathy, made me sign some document.
13 Before it stopped running with a muffled rattle, a cry, a very loud cry, as of infinite desolation, soared slowly in the opaque air.
14 I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
15 The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings.