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  • Each season she grew more shrunken and dilapidated, surrendering her sturdy hull and deck to the ravages of woodworms, barnacles, and weather.†   (source)
  • After a certain point, the ravages of experience reverse themselves; we put on innocence with advancing age, at least in the minds of others.†   (source)
  • After all, the clock was over fifty years old, and even the finest timepieces must be subject to the ravages of Time.†   (source)
  • Then, with Gita's arms around Lale's waist and her head resting on his shoulder, they walk away, merging into the crowded street, one young couple among many in a war-ravaged city.†   (source)
  • He felt sick at the thought of those men—first dying in such a horrible way, and then having even their corpses ravaged.†   (source)
  • I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us.†   (source)
  • Heartburn ravaged his chest.†   (source)
  • The country was looted, ransacked, ravaged.†   (source)
  • They could recite, with malicious glee, the now-ironic concluding sentence of the article: "The charm of the city and its way of life have found expression in [Williams's] careful and loving restoration of Mercer House—a house once ravaged by war and neglect but now a center of harmony and quiet living."†   (source)
  • Maybe the quiet, reserved mother who would testify for her son had a portrait somewhere that was ravaged with guilt, twisted with pain.†   (source)
  • This one bore die headline: SCRIMGEOUR SUCCEEDS FUDGE Most of this front page was taken up with a large black-and-white picture of a man with a lionlike mane of thick hair and a rather ravaged face.†   (source)
  • Despite the ravages of conquest, this part of Oakwald Forest remained untouched.†   (source)
  • We went to war when Lannister armies were ravaging the riverlands, and Ned was a prisoner, falsely accused of treason.†   (source)
  • It was then that Langdon saw the ravaged shreds of parchment clinging all over the lining of his jacket.†   (source)
  • You came here because you wanted to save poor little Margo from her troubled little self, so that I would be oh-so-thankful to my knight in shining armor that I would strip my clothes off and beg you to ravage my body.†   (source)
  • My father was fighting a war against letumosis, the pestilence that has ravaged our planet for over a dozen years.†   (source)
  • They try to smile at me, but even Venia can't conceal her shock at my ravaged mutt body.†   (source)
  • I've seen countless uncureds dragged to their procedures, so racked and ravaged by love that they would rather tear their eyes out, or try to impale themselves on the barbed-wire fences outside of the laboratories, than be without it.†   (source)
  • What springs into my mind are those news reports about tornadoes or fires, how they'll ravage one house but leave the one next door intact.†   (source)
  • "There were signs that a band of Urgals had ravaged the town," stated Brom.†   (source)
  • The baboon ravaging Canary Wharf looked like he would eat anything, not just foods ending with an —o, and would have no difficulty ripping me limb from limb.†   (source)
  • Where's— A face appeared before her: colorless, sunken eyes, ravaged and diseased-looking skin, matted hair.†   (source)
  • In fact, the fire had ravaged only the ground floor, but all the same Meggie would not go in, and when they had searched over a dozen other houses in vain Elinor bravely went through the charred door on her own.†   (source)
  • Around us were ruins, remains of a home which had been condemned and later ravaged by fire.†   (source)
  • They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about.†   (source)
  • The one cassava farm that we ravaged didn't last long.†   (source)
  • Some kilometers away, Kassad could see a dozen other ravaged fragments of the HS Merrick tumbling in the glare of sunlight.†   (source)
  • Grief and despair had ravaged it.†   (source)
  • Abandoned factories, with rows of small square windows partly bashed in, ravaged as if by moths.†   (source)
  • After ravaging the lawn for about an hour, one of us had the presence of mind to ask him, "Whose house is this?"†   (source)
  • Dur-rell, however, sees it otherwise, as symptomatic of the ravages that time and living take on us all.†   (source)
  • I stroll over to the mission at Fourth and Los Angeles streets, where I see street people by the dozens, some of them drug-ravaged, some of them raving mad, some of them lying so still on the pavement it's hard to tell whether they're napping or waiting for a ride to the morgue.†   (source)
  • Hunger and disease ravaged that poor land: a million people died in Ireland's Great Famine in the 1840s.†   (source)
  • When forgotten people feel compelled to riot in Los Angeles, we share their pain through our TV screens, and their ravages impact our emotional and economic health.†   (source)
  • Europe was ravaged by wars.†   (source)
  • And through the world she would have blundered, ravaging where she could, as we saw these creatures do.†   (source)
  • The lamplight, thrown upward, was not kind to his ravaged face: It showed every etched line of harshness and worry and despair.†   (source)
  • The newborns aren't ravaging Anchorage, Esme.†   (source)
  • In that exercise the Dallas, teamed with HMS Swiftsure, had used the foul weather to penetrate and ravage the simulated enemy formation.†   (source)
  • The place was always dark and protected from the ravages of time, like a sealed pyramid.†   (source)
  • Like the remnants of a ravaged army, we helped one another back over the sand dunes, picking up those who fell, supporting those who could barely walk.†   (source)
  • I had just seen a group of boys from a dozen war-ravaged countries come together as a team and create improbable beauty on the soccer pitch.†   (source)
  • When a major fire ravaged the old wooden town, he helped to found the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and his name was first to appear on its charter of incorporation.†   (source)
  • She interpreted this as a heroic determination to struggle without quarter against the ravages of time, but he was more specific: he had made the irrevocable decision to take his own life when he was seventy years old.†   (source)
  • Hawat tells me the Fremen were a deep thorn in the Harkonnen side, that the extent of their ravages was a carefully guarded secret.†   (source)
  • Because of their ravaged state when they arrived in camp the previous evening, I'd assumed that both men would decide to throw in the towel.†   (source)
  • But the crinkling came again, louder, and when I pushed the door open, I wasn't staring at a group of rats ravaging a bag of snack Food.†   (source)
  • Although he was still, of course, a professional of the highest class, he was now in his seventies and much ravaged by arthritis and other ailments.†   (source)
  • It isn't as clean as it was when it was the Erudite compound; now it is ravaged by war, bullet holes in the walls and the broken glass of shattered lightbulbs everywhere.†   (source)
  • As the virus ravaged the hospital, the surviving medical staff panicked and ran off into the bush.†   (source)
  • His memories kept taking him back to how she'd looked when they sat beside each other in third grade and then forward to the image of the ravaged creature he'd carried in his arms earlier that day.†   (source)
  • That ravaged visage told plainly the battle-ground that Lydia Sessions's narrow soul had become in these dreadful days.†   (source)
  • "The enemy's ravages in New Jersey exceed all description," Greene would report to Governor Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island.†   (source)
  • I look at the juniors surrounding me, and discover I'm not the only one ravaged by hormones.†   (source)
  • I wrote speeches mainly for corporate chairmen, ruddy white-haired guys with big ravaged noses, patriarchs of this or that industry.†   (source)
  • And, if you saw with peasant eyes, Farmer said, the scene looked violent and ugly, a lake that had buried the good farmland and ravaged the highlands.†   (source)
  • The same winds had ravaged Spring Garden, Rock Run, Possum Trot, Bennefield's Gap, Knighten's Crossroad and Webster's Chapel.†   (source)
  • Precious little fourteen-year-old Nancy's tragic battle with AIDS becomes all the more tragic because of her extremely lowered natural immune system, which allowed the virus to so quickly ravage her delicate body.†   (source)
  • First, I'd hire me some experts, some medical guys who'll testify that Seth was drugged up with painkillers, that his body was ravaged by lung cancer and because of all the chemo and radiation and medications that he'd been hit with over the past year he couldn't've been thinkin' clearly.†   (source)
  • He knows firsthand the ravages of neglect and substandard living conditions.†   (source)
  • Nursing at her breast, given life by the last few drops of milk her thirst-ravaged body could provide, was a child—an infant boy.†   (source)
  • The house had been ravaged by fire and was set far off from the road.†   (source)
  • He had lost flesh, but now, as he stood there, animated at last, I could see that gauntness had not ravaged him but rather given his face a kind of distinction.†   (source)
  • He wanted to forget the patience and control he'd taught himself to live by, and just ravage.†   (source)
  • She looked so terribly saddened-a woman recently ravaged-her hair tousled and her skin blotchy.†   (source)
  • The whole business ravaged the entire population of Earth in a matter of three short weeks—†   (source)
  • Mary Ellen's sisters, Marge and Jean, tried to fill the vacuum left by the ravaged little girl.†   (source)
  • She rushed over to me, concern ravaging her tone.†   (source)
  • YaYa fell in with them, charging to the fore as they drove the vyes and ogres back over the scorched earth and ravaged countryside.†   (source)
  • He has a pipe clenched in his teeth, and the smoke blurs his ravaged face.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor stared at Wells, as if looking for a sign of remorse or glee—anything to help him understand why his son had tried to set fire to the only tree evacuated from their ravaged planet.†   (source)
  • Blasted and permanently astonished by the events of 1917, he had returned to Medallion handsome but ravaged, and even the most fastidious people in the town sometimes caught themselves dreaming of what he must have been like a few years back before he went off to war.†   (source)
  • Jason turned; the legless Chernak had his hand in the canvas bag strapped to his chair; his eyes were on fire, his ravaged face contorted.†   (source)
  • Since the fire that ravaged it twenty-five years ago, it has been nothing more than a beautiful ruin.†   (source)
  • After four months of hard, often dangerous work in a city torn, ravaged and smoldering, they were going home.†   (source)
  • There's a photograph of their mother on the front page, ravaged by loss.†   (source)
  • He was angry at the way the disease had ravaged her.†   (source)
  • The storm that had ravaged Göteborg earlier in the night had obviously passed to the south of the Nossebro area, but it was only a matter of time before the rain came.†   (source)
  • But beside them Bregalad spoke gently in their own tongue, almost whispering; and they learned that he belonged to Skinbark's people, and the country where they had lived had been ravaged.†   (source)
  • The camera, like an eye at a police line-up, moved from face to scarred face-scarred by the ravages of fear, of evasion, of despair, of uncertainty, of self-loathing, of guilt.†   (source)
  • Now the others could see how the bee venom had ravaged her face and body.†   (source)
  • Four occupants of the ravaged apartment building perished, three of them from the same family—Irving Zahler, 30, his 27-year-old wife, Marilyn, and their 4-year-old son, Monte.†   (source)
  • They referred to Urgutha Forka, a vicious demon that had ravaged the planet with a particularly virulent plague in the ancient times when Drizzt's ancestors had walked on the surface.†   (source)
  • His voice was husky and edging toward ravaged.†   (source)
  • She ravaged some of the best gardens in Colombo and Nuwara Eliya.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the truth has been forced upon him, I thought, looking at her with suspicion, and I gazed again upon that ravaged beauty.†   (source)
  • She resided now in a psychiatric hospital on the other side of the ridge from Ma'ale Hahamisha, trapped in a prison of memory and a body ravaged by fire.†   (source)
  • They would not ravage the monastery of a fellow god, displaying before men the division of their ranks-not unless they were certain.†   (source)
  • The music may have buoyed her spirit but her retreat into darkness had left her body feeling weak and ravaged.†   (source)
  • KATE taking in HELEN'S ravaged state becomes steely in her gaze up at ANNIE.†   (source)
  • Her face showed the ravages of time, he saw.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich looked up from the letter with absent, tearless eyes, dry with grief, ravaged by suffering.†   (source)
  • Nowhere in the frantic, fear-ravaged room could I find a sympathetic eye.†   (source)
  • His face in the waning afternoon light looked ravaged and abandoned.†   (source)
  • Still I lay there, feeling victimized by the sight of the unfinished bulwark where they had piled and shaped the wet sand around their bodies, which changed the appearance of the beach like the ravages of a storm.†   (source)
  • They never have a picture of the children so I do not know if the girls still wear those gigantic red bows and the ravaged looks on the every other Sunday when parents can come to visit "unless otherwise notified"—as we were notified the first six weeks.†   (source)
  • She had treated the victims of weapons like these, the poor souls like Dina Sarid whose limbs and vital organs had been shredded by nails and ball bearings or ravaged by the unseen destructive power of the blast wave.†   (source)
  • The wars in Afghanistan have ravaged the roads connecting Kabul, Herat, and Kandahar.†   (source)
  • Even his vocal cords had been ravaged, transforming his boyish voice into a permanent whisper.†   (source)
  • We'd barely managed to stop Fenris Wolf and a host of fire giants from ravaging the Nine Worlds.†   (source)
  • Physically, almost every one of them was ravaged.†   (source)
  • Kate sobbed as her father's words penetrated her war-ravaged heart.†   (source)
  • "I don't-don't know," he said in a ravaged voice.†   (source)
  • But with Mishka, here were not simply the ravages of time.†   (source)
  • Sun flares have ravaged many parts of the earth.†   (source)
  • Time had claimed Siri but had not ravaged her.†   (source)
  • A second, much older Halliday lies inside the casket, his body emaciated and ravaged by cancer.†   (source)
  • 5 — Like the Remnants of a Ravaged Army†   (source)
  • She was like a stranger, ravaged by age, whose resentment had destroyed her desire to live.†   (source)
  • I breathed in horror, feeling rude but unable to stop staring at his subtly ravaged skin.†   (source)
  • Whether plague or fire or a foreign enemy had ravaged the town, we couldn't know.†   (source)
  • My memory face was twisted, ravaged, covered in sweat and blood.†   (source)
  • Someone said that the cholera was ravaging the villages of the Great Swamp.†   (source)
  • His gaze ran over my ravaged dress again.†   (source)
  • The ravages of fever, plague, crime—these things competed with us always there, and outdid us.†   (source)
  • And they had ravaged a meal set before them on our best china.†   (source)
  • They lived in a world ravaged by heat, after all.†   (source)
  • The sound was raspy, as if ravaged by years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes.†   (source)
  • A gloomy look passed across the young knight's ravaged face.†   (source)
  • Deliver your sons from the evil that ravages what is sacred.†   (source)
  • Somehow the queen's voice cut through the woman's ravaged wits.†   (source)
  • And here I thought you were holding back the ravages of time.†   (source)
  • The lack of oxygen ravaged her body for long seconds, and she didn't try to stop death.†   (source)
  • He turned his gaunt, pox-ravaged face toward her.†   (source)
  • Remember that when you behold the blind and ravaged faces of your dead.†   (source)
  • How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her?†   (source)
  • He loved ordered gardens and hated to see beds ravaged by Lalla's plundering.†   (source)
  • The will of the majority, if out of hand, could lead to "horrible ravages," he was sure.†   (source)
  • Some places have escaped the ravages of the Winterlands creatures.†   (source)
  • We had just turned down one of many ravaged cleaning supply aisles when she gave my arm a tug.†   (source)
  • They sidestep time, as it were, and the ravages of progress.†   (source)
  • He hid behind his walls whilst Clegane and his mad dogs ravaged through his town.†   (source)
  • The tall, dignified captain was a good deal more ravaged than he appeared.†   (source)
  • Not in clumps, but in strands, as if decaying slowly but steadily, like termites ravaging a home.†   (source)
  • But he hadn't survived a year of the sun-ravaged world by making assumptions.†   (source)
  • The Boston attempt fails; the one in Quebec ravages the Continental Army.†   (source)
  • The child's head tilted gracefully to the side, and a curtain of hair hid her ravaged face.†   (source)
  • What atonement could his ravaged body make?†   (source)
  • Teeleh's song ravaged him with its strange chorus of terrible beauty.†   (source)
  • And the ravages of drink and hard living were etched on Ira's fleshy face.†   (source)
  • The ravages of her madness had thinned her down to a wisp.†   (source)
  • The trees were all charred, as though an immense fire had ravaged the land.†   (source)
  • The boys, so recently returned from battle, had not yet recovered from its ravages.†   (source)
  • I would not have us return with victory to a City in ruins and a land ravaged behind us.†   (source)
  • A tormented look passed over her wide strong features, ravaged now by the appalling bruise.†   (source)
  • Also, a disease unlike any before known to man has been ravaging the earth's people—a disease called the Flare.†   (source)
  • Not that a totally effective method had been found yet: the dozen or so ravaged hopefuls who had volunteered themselves as subjects, paying no fees but signing away their rights to sue, had come out looking like the Mould Creature from Outer Space — uneven in tone, greenish brown, and peeling in ragged strips.†   (source)
  • It was hard to take my eyes off his ravaged neck and jaw—hard to believe that even a vampire could have survived so many sets of teeth ripping into his throat.†   (source)
  • At one point they passed a ravaged-looking man—his clothes torn, his hair matted with some kind of black goo, skin covered in rashes—as he fell on a drugged-out teenager and started beating him.†   (source)
  • Three days since he had killed Durza; three days since people began calling him Shadeslayer; three days since the remnants of the sorcerer's consciousness had ravaged his mind and he had been saved by the mysterious Togira Ikonoka, the Cripple Who Is Whole.†   (source)
  • Despite this, there was some food left over — half a ham, a small heap of cookies, various ravaged cakes — and Laura and I had been sneaking into the pantry on the sly.†   (source)
  • However, as best he could tell from the cryptic records, most such relationships ended in tragedy, either because the lovers were unable to relate to one another or because the humans aged and died while the elves escaped the ravages of time.†   (source)
  • He is taken up by all their snapping, ravaging arms and mouths like an animal being set upon by vultures, enfolded in all their darkness.†   (source)
  • He was wiry, slight, with small, downward-sloping eyes and an intellectual, ravaged-looking face that she found sexy though not handsome.†   (source)
  • Clary noted the contrast: the ravaged face of the older man and the boy's unlined one, the pale locks of hair falling into Jace's eyes making him look even younger.†   (source)
  • Most had come from war-ravaged regions where the police and other authority figures were not only untrustworthy but frequently active agents of oppression.†   (source)
  • As some dude came out with a bucket or two, we ran up to him and snatched the buckets from his arms, then took off like we were ravaging coyotes on yesca, chicken parts flying everywhere.†   (source)
  • When he realized he was ill, he set out for home with the hope that his sister's ministrations and Dr. Cuevas's knowledge would restore his health and youth, but he was unable to withstand the sixty days on ship and died at the latitude of Guayaquil, ravaged by fever and hallucinating about musky women and hidden treasure.†   (source)
  • World Relief and the International Rescue Committee opened offices in Clarkston to better serve the newcomers, and resettled still more refugees—now from war-ravaged African countries including Liberia, Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.†   (source)
  • The flower beds have been reconstituted, the exterior sandblasted, the ravages of time and vandalism repaired, though dark wings of soot are still visible around the lower windows, from the fire over sixty years ago.†   (source)
  • It looked as if it had stood there for a hundred years—maybe built by a farmer in the days before the world was ravaged.†   (source)
  • I looked over the other side and there overturned at the bottom of the gully, to be ravaged by scavengers for parts, to be another barrio monument, lay an ice cream truck.†   (source)
  • America, long isolationist, found itself pulled into both conflicts: In Europe, its allies lay in Hitler's path; in the Pacific, its longtime ally China was being ravaged by the Japanese, and its territories of Hawaii, Wake, Guam, and Midway, as well as its commonwealth of the Philippines, were threatened.†   (source)
  • The Consul looked at the thin face, cheekbones pressing against sallow flesh, eyes large but hooded in deep hollows, thin lips set in a permanent twitch of muscle too downturned to be called even a cynical smile, the hairline not so much receding as ravaged by radiation, and he felt he was looking at a man who had been ill for years.†   (source)
  • I wonder whether what we learned about the other parts of the world—the uncured parts—is accurate, whether they're really as wild and ravaged and savage and full of pain as everyone has always said.†   (source)
  • Having chosen the ravaged path of independence, you don't even comprehend that you are dragging the entire Creation along with you.†   (source)
  • A young member of the Lost Boys of Sudan, the 3,800 refugees who resettled in the United States after a twelve-year flight through the desert and scrub of war-ravaged Sudan, died after getting bludgeoned by another Sudanese refugee in a fight over ten dollars.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza nodded, and Florentino Ariza took off his hat and made a slight bow, and she looked at him without the slightest compassion for the premature ravages of baldness.†   (source)
  • There was not a pomade or lotion he did not try, a belief he did not accept, a sacrifice he did not endure, in order to defend every inch of his head against the ravages of that devastation.†   (source)
  • The host of vampires moved in the shadows, their candles whipped and fleeting on the cool air; and above them loomed a great broadcast of ink-drawn figures: the sleeping corpse of a woman ravaged by a vulture with a human face; a naked man bound hand and foot to a tree, beside him hanging the torso of another, his severed arms tied still to another branch, and on a spike this dead man's staring head.†   (source)
  • They said that one midnight the previous June someone had seen her boarding the Cunard ocean liner en route to Panama, and that she wore a dark veil to hide the ravages of the shameful disease that was consuming her.†   (source)
  • It ended as suddenly as it had begun, and the extent of its ravages was never known, not because this was impossible to establish but because one of our most widespread virtues was a certain reticence concerning personal misfortune.†   (source)
  • Instead of the screeching of the parrots and the riotous noise of invisible monkeys, which at one time had intensified the stifling midday heat, all that was left was the vast silence of the ravaged land.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino tried to convince her, with arguments readily understandable to anyone who wished to understand them, that the mishap was not repeated every day through carelessness on his part, as she insisted, but because of organic reasons: as a young man his stream was so defined and so direct that when he was at school he won contests for marksmanship in filling bottles, but with the ravages of age it was not only decreasing, it was also becoming oblique and scattered, and had at last turned into a .†   (source)
  • The two Americans walked across the ravaged old square, away from the dim light into complete darkness.†   (source)
  • He looked not just tired, but ravaged, as if something were tearing him down from the inside; still, his voice was calm as he said again, "That's enough.†   (source)
  • 'Where the buildings had sheltered the Riders' gardens from the blast that had ravaged the city, dull-colored flowers still grew in artful designs, their shapes no doubt governed by the dictates of some long-forgotten spell.†   (source)
  • The notebook held the story of how he and Allie had fallen in love, and sometimes after he read it aloud to her, Allie would become momentarily lucid, despite the ravages of Alzheimer's.†   (source)
  • He was as gentle as possible, unlike the Twins, who had ravaged his own mind in a similar procedure the day he arrived at Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease's ravaging effect on circulation and immunity.†   (source)
  • The irony, of course, is that no sentence imposed by a court for homicide could trump the one that's ravaged me in prison.†   (source)
  • In Canada, where the remnants of an American army were still holding out, the situation was gravely compounded by the ravages of smallpox.†   (source)
  • Davos had been praying that the galley had been lost in the same storms that had ravaged Salla's fleet, but the gods had not been so kind.†   (source)
  • The pox had ravaged his face badly, and the beard he'd grown to hide the scars was thin and scraggly.†   (source)
  • Medusa may have been born in the corruption of a war-ravaged Saigon, its early funding may have been a result of it, but that Medusa no longer existed; it had been replaced by a dozen different names and companies.†   (source)
  • Besides, Russia's epidemic was ravaging its prisons, and prisoners were part of pih's special constituency—the Gospels said so; you could look it up, in Matthew 25.†   (source)
  • From thirty thousand feet up, the idea that a virus was ravaging the earth below seemed preposterous.†   (source)
  • Beneath her ravaged scalp, her face was shredded skin and black blood where she had raked herself with her nails.†   (source)
  • The entire left side of Grace Bourne's face was ravaged and pitted, a lava flow of skin that had been stretched and sewed to cover an extensive burn.†   (source)
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