Meaning of desolatest | Babel Free

Definitions

superlative form of desolate: most desolate

archaic, form-of, superlative

Examples

“If thou ſhouldeſt arriue among the Indians, and finde but ſome ſiſlie Cottage in the deſolateſt Countrey thereof; Thou wouldeſt by and by conclude, this Ile is inhabited, ſome man hath paſſed heere.”

“Don Bellianis and Arfileo, hauing mounted the Charret, guided by the Dwatffes, with the Princeſſe and her Damſels, as before is recyted, not knowing whether they might be conducted, were ſo [?]wiftlye drawn by the Griffons that in very ſhort time they were within the kingdome of Perſia, not far from the great citie of Perſepolis, and on the deſolateſt mountaines of all that l[?]nd the Griffons deſcended, hard by the mouth of a darke and ebſcure Caue, from whence came forth an old woman aboue two hundreth yeares of age, who comming before the wearie and faint Princes, knéeled to them, deſiring that ſhee might [?] their hands.”

“She doth tell me where to borrow / Comfort in the mid’ſt of ſorrow; Makes the deſolateſt place / To her preſence be a grace; / And the blackeſt diſcontents / Be her faireſt ornaments.”

“Oh far be it from Chriſtians to thinke it, from religious to doe it: the blindeſt Sauadge in the deſolateſt Iſlands that ſerues his Zemes the deuill for God, is not ſo impious.”

“He lay all that day on a bed, vnwilling to ſpeake to any perſon; and the night being come, he depriued himſelfe of his companions: he tooke to the largeſt and deſolateſt wood, ſhunning the meeting of men, more like a ſauge beaſt, deſiring to die farre from the ſociety and companie of men, ſince they were the cauſe of his ſorrow.”

“But to ſpeak a little more familiarly unto you, ſuppoſe that you ſhould arrive amongſt the Indians, and there finde but ſome ſilly Cottage in the deſolateſt place thereof, would you not thereupon conclude with your ſelf, ſurely this Land is inhabited, ſome man hath been here?”

“The other to deprived parents! both pregnantly expreſſing man’s deſtitute condition without Chriſt; Chriſts Fatherly affection towards man: Man, who left alone, is the deſolateſt creature in the world! eſpecially for Spirituals, how unable therein to help himſelfe, ſo much as to a good thought, Rom. 7. When thus the Apoſtles without Chriſt, are very Orphanes, as children, Fatherleſſe, expoſed to oppreſſions, injuries, and deluſions!”

““Sleep on! sleep on!” oblivious of thy woes, oh! desolatest of the desolate, till the foot of the surly watchman shall kick thee into consciousness.”

“There was the desolatest looking place that I ever saw.”

“Away!—home; to the Rhine, to the Nile; to Paris, or the desolatest peak in Switzerland: the wranglings forgotten; “bills” no longer all-important; the old familiar voices no longer flowing in the unbroken song of level eloquence, nor bubbling out in the stuttering, clipt, foaming and out-tumbling, together-crashing, stopt short, hesitating speech of your practised man, who has got so used to not being able to speak as to consider that “his style” of rhetoric!”

“For there the old man wears / The sweet symbol that appears / In the desolatest hour / That the winter-world doth know, / When a bud is seen to blow / In its lightness and its whiteness, / Its purity and brightness, / As if four flakes of snow / Were united in one flower.”

““ ‘Whereabouts did you come acrost him?’ says Lucy. “ ‘On the turnpike; the most lonesomest, and the most desolatest part of it.[…]’”

“That morning, when the master left it, there was, in spite of all the wealth of learning gathered round its walls—in spite of the heavenly sun which fell so golden on the floor—in spite of the living landscape seen beyond, set in an azure setting, and painted by a higher Master than mortal man—there was an air of visible desolation, the desolatest dearth earth has—that of the absence of woman’s thought and care!”

“Sure enough it was a dark day; and after the funeral we was the desolatest little group ever you did see.”

“[…]ſo, to conſtrain myſelf, as ’twere, to a cheerfuller frame, I went forth to the Mercera, a ſpot where any but the deſolateſt mind might ſurely find amuſements.”

“This sentence he received philosophically; intimating to the learned judge that should be (Gumbles) have the good fortune to become a ticket-of-leave, he would occupy himself as a missionary, ‘in converting the very savigest men he could meet with on the desolatest hislands there was to be found in the ocean.’”

“Before it had come to an end there was a clusther of ruined cabins, with not a roof to every half-score of them; and in one of the desolatest there was a widda woman stretched dyin’ on a heap of straw, and praying her one misfortunate boy, and that was meself, to leave her to die alone, and to save himself from the bloodhounds, that was sure to scent him out before long.”

““Hat them there Barrens, which is the desolatest place I hever seen,” said Miss Priscilla;”

“But woman is queer. A romping girl strolled out of camp and brought in a clump of field daisies and set them by the spring, on one of our desolatest, wettest days!”

“The minister sot close up ter that, looking down inter the ashes; for there wasn’t much more ’en them to see, the desolatest man that I ever sot eyes on.”

“But, Eleazar, afterwards!—to pass / Through the blank spaces of a changeless night, / Meeting, it may be, only ghosts that point / To the deep wounds our murdering hands have given, / That glare with menacing looks, and mock and gibe / Our miserable doom, swept by fierce winds / Unto the bourne of desolatest night!”

“Once, on coming home from an evening with an aunt at Walworth, Phœbe had seen the third-floor lodger sitting on one of the stone seats on Waterloo Bridge, “the most desolatest figure as ever was.””

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