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devastation |
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devastation noun destruction, ruin, havoc, ravages, demolition, plunder, pillage, desolation, depredation, ruination, spoliation Translations |
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Here the scenery changed from the strange and unfamiliar to the wreckage of the familiar: patches of ground exhibited the devastation of a cyclone, and in a few score yards I would come upon perfectly undisturbed spaces, houses with their blinds trimly drawn and doors closed, as if they had been left for a day by the owners, or as if their inhabitants slept within. The gormandizing powers of this worthy were, at first, matters of surprise and merriment to the travellers; but they soon became too serious for a joke, threatening devastation to the fleshpots; and he was regarded askance, at his meals, as a regular kill-crop, destined to waste the substance of the party. "It's a terrible shower," said the hunter; "more so than hail itself in the devastation it causes. |
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