"If you knew how silly you looked, Robbie," said Gloria devastatingly, "trying to dress and talk like an old space-man."
"The World with a Thousand Moons"
Edmond Hamilton
Therefore the Sapper Subaltern, when he had finished his work and made his report, had nothing to do but sit down and wait until other people's preparations were made, and he received orders to complete his work by utterly and devastatingly destroying it.
"Between the Lines"
Boyd Cable
Meanwhile, where were those fiery moths that had sprung so devastatingly from their strange cocoons?
"Spawn of the Comet"
Harold Thompson Rich