This reactionary policy, which has continued ever since-this return to the hated old methods of arbitrary and repressive rule-produced, as was inevitable, deep and general discontent at the very moment when the great historical measure of serf emancipation was Desolating the families of the landed gentry, province after province; and when the execution of the Emancipation Act was completed in 1870, Russian society was already quivering with dangerous elements of revolt.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
With an instant clenching of his teeth he pulled down the blinds upon that Desolating view.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
"It might be anything at all, you see," she said with Desolating common sense.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke