Sentence examples for Desolate wilderness from inspiring English sources

At the time the area north of 59th Street was a desolate wilderness of swamps, rocks and brambles.

With greedy abandon, princes cut down forests, mined mountains, drained swamps, and their savage internecine wars reduced the great plain to a desolate wilderness.

The next morning, we wake up to discover that we are, in fact, in the midst of a freezing, desolate wilderness.

Visions of his wife and child loom up to torture him and it becomes clear that Cave is a man with nothing to lose, driven north into this desolate wilderness by a grief that seems almost penitential.

One item was a space blanket – a human-sized piece of foil to wrap myself up in case I was to veer off course and become lost in the freezing, desolate wilderness.

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving each year, the Wall Street Journal republishes twin editorials that evoke America's special gifts: "The Desolate Wilderness" and "And the Fair Land". They describe the pilgrims' fears as they departed Europe in 1620, and the measureless bounty they and their descendants found in the new land.

Twenty years ago, Garnet Frost escaped London and headed into the desolate Scottish wilderness, where, not having a map, he got lost.

She needed those attributes to be able to keep up with her peripatetic husband Charles, with whom she later laid the worldwide ground work for the budding aviation industry in such far-flung destinations as China, communist Russia, and the desolate Arctic wilderness.

On one side stood civilisation, knowledge, culture, religion and everything else that distinguished humanity from other species; on the other lay a wilderness, desolate spiritually and physically.

If that is a cure, it is homeopathic; for the desolate and lonely, only wilderness and solitude.

The City of London is imagined as a swampy wilderness, as desolate as the Roman Forum in the dark ages.