| 1. | To wing the desolate Abyss, and spi. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And all about found desolate for thos. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | Pocket, in an outbreak of desolate desperation. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | His words gave Tuppence an extraordinarily desolate feeling. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | Corney, pausing, 'except to a poor desolate creature like me. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | You are going to her, I hope She must be very desolate to-night.. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | Alas, poor lady, desolate and lef. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | Not to deceive myself, I must reply--No I felt desolate to a degree. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and mor. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Surveys thy desolated realms below. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 12. | As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated camp. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 13. | Before, I had only imagined the wretchedness of my desolated home the reality came on me as a new, and a not less terrible, disaster. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 14. | _where I desolated the ocean, the home of the eotens_.--This would b. - from Beowulf by |
| 15. | 'Left.' 'No, no how can you Right, right, of course.' 'It is very serious,' said the manager's voice behind me 'I would be desolated if anything should happen to Mr. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 16. | Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |