There, however, Catherine and her baby die during childbirth, and Henry is left desolate at the loss of the great love of his life.
After the Arab conquest of Palestine (7th century ce), the Negev was left desolate; for more than 1,200 years it supported only a meagre population of nomadic Bedouin.
These funds were needed, state and city officials said, to help rebuild the streets left desolate by the attacks of Sept. 11.
The valley was otherwise left desolate until the 1930s; papyrus and water lilies flourished, and the swamps were inhabited by water buffalo, wild boar, and many species of migratory birds.
94) Aeneid Book VI translated by Seamus Heaney For those left desolate by the death of the Irish Nobel laureate, there has been consolation in a trickle of posthumously discovered poems.
Crete being thus left desolate (so the Praesians say), it was peopled by Greeks in especial among other men; and in the third generation after Minos befel the Trojan business, wherein the Cretans bore themselves as bravely as any in the cause of Menelaus.
But surely, you might object, any use of this site in the interim is better than it being left desolate?
Over the course of time, shops were built in the courtyard and the synagogue was left desolate, in a pile of rubble.
Burned down during the troubles of the 1920s and left desolate ever since, Fernscourt has been a magnet for the village children, especially the young Ryans, who think of the place as their private domain.
Her actor parents – Charlotte Holland and the American director and actor Sam Wanamaker, who came to England to escape McCarthyism and conceived the idea of building Shakespeare's Globe on the South Bank – were against her becoming an actor, fearing she would be left desolated by a life involving constant rejection.
