| Delhi is a city of magnificence and desolation, grandeur and history, all seeped in red and purple. |
| However, the island's desolation was offset by whalers who came aboard from the ships Emma Jane and Roswell King. |
| The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle. |
| Henry Edward's burial rites had taken place on a glorious spring day, balmily out of keeping with the emotional desolation of the event. |
| Here, in the words of the Scripture, is desolation of abomination, or at any rate its beginnings. |
| If this is the real world, away from all the carnage and desolation, than this cannot be for real. |
