| The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle. |
| The food of a nation had perished, and a desolation unexampled in modern times came down upon the land. |
| When a spell was laid on her to keep her from him, she fell into a fit of desolation, secluding herself and seeing no one. |
| The colours of unreachable nebulas mingled with the darkness and desolation of space. |
| Henry Edward's burial rites had taken place on a glorious spring day, balmily out of keeping with the emotional desolation of the event. |
| She causes, some say, desolation, evil, and decay, yet she also creates palaces of art and culture, gardens of rank luxuriance. |
