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Their safeholds now became the scenes of plunder and bloodshed, the islands were wasted with fire, the shores of the beautiful lake were completely ravaged, and the houses on its borders burnt to the ground.
And he pushed back his chair and rushed to the bell. Meg rushed after him: "You'll let her see me? You'll let her talk to me? Oh, are you sure?" The little hands clutched his arm, her ravaged, wistful face was raised imploringly to his. Anthony stooped and kissed the little face. "It's just people like Jan who are put into the world to straighten things out for the rest of us.
'Tell her, she articulated, 'I never want to see her again. 'But, he said petulantly, 'haven't I just told you I never want to meet her? 'Then write write I don't mind Henrietta. 'No! he almost shouted, 'not Henrietta either! She turned to him a face ravaged with tears and misery. 'Why not Henrietta? she whispered. 'I hate the lot of them, he muttered. 'They're all witches.
Toward the close of the eighth century, the Normans filled Europe with the renown of their exploits, and their banners bade defiance even to the armies of Charlemagne. Early in the ninth century they ravaged France, Italy, Scotland, England, and passed over to Ireland, where they built cities which remain to the present day.
And when I proceed to tell you that by an almost miraculous chance the most poetic memorials of the material world had but just then been summed up for me as a symbolical interpretation of human wisdom; whilst at this minute the remains of all the intellectual treasures ravaged by us at table are comprised in these two women, the living and authentic types of folly, would you be any the wiser?
They have paid for Ottoman Imperialism with their blood and physique; their villages have been ravaged by the syphilis of the garrison towns, and the wider the frontiers of the Empire the further from their homes the Anatolian soldiers have died in the Yemen, in Albania, in Irak, on the snow-covered Armenian plateau.
It is said to have been constructed in the time of the famous Abdoollah Khan, and was reduced to its present desolate state by Meer Moorad Beg, the chief of Koondooz, who some years ago ravaged the whole of this district, burning and laying waste whatever he could not carry off. On the 25th of July we marched to Ghoree, a distance of about 21 miles.
The country had been ravaged and depopulated, the provinces had been plundered, many of the great towns had been taken and sacked, the palaces of the old kings had been burnt, and all the gold and silver that was not hid away had been carried off. Assyria, when the Scythians quitted her, was but the shadow of her former self. Weak and exhausted, she seemed to invite a permanent conqueror.
It was the doom of Italy to be ravaged by these inconsequent marauders, who never attempted by internal organization to found a substantial empire, until the mortmain of the Spanish rule was laid upon the peninsula, and Austria gained by marriages what France had failed to win by force of arms.
It was to Corinth that the Argo went. Creon, the king of Corinth, welcomed them and gave great honor to the heroes who had faced such labors and such dangers to bring the world's wonder to Greece. The Argonauts stayed together until they went to Calydon, to hunt the boar that ravaged Prince Meleagrus's country. After that they separated, each one going to his own land.
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