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desolate
«Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.»
«I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
(Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
advocate, claims, desolate, desolated, desolating, helpless, horror, legislature, Legislatures, outcast, sunk, The Advocate, unconcerned
«Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.»
«Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? / The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
barns, broken-down, cut of meat, desolate, garner, garnering, garners, rotten, withered
«O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! / Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.»
«Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.»
«Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
beheld, blacken, blackened, blackens, blaze, burnt, chimney, chimneys, Cold Fire, Dark Room, desolate, entertainment, fall into place, feathery, gloomy, hearth, hearths, his uncle, huge, large white, lighted, roof, rugged, ruinous, smoking room, stairs, steep, stove, strewed, The Dark Room, This Was, uncle, uncles
«No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own»
«It keeps eternal whispering around / Desolate shores.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
desolate, desolated, desolating, shores, whispering, whisperings
«No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Soul,
Trust
| Keywords:
desolate, desolated, desolating, reverence, reverenced, reverences
