"land" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The citizens of Karystos refused to give hostages to the Persians, so they were besieged, and their land ravaged, until they submitted to the Persians.
- He has pleaded that he had to do that in order to keep from having his lands ravaged.
- The home city of the Dwarves had been burned to the ground, and the land ravaged.
- The only problem was, it fit the pattern of a country that was well-organized, one with people fiercely determined to defend themselves against interlopers, not a land ravaged by its own leaders and torn by internal conflict.
- The inhabitants of the country had been decimated, their land ravaged, much of their unique ecclesiastical heritage destroyed; but as a race they had not been mongrelized.
- I would not have us return with victory to a City in ruins and a land ravaged behind us.
- The churls still have their money in their pouches, or hidden in the ground, but if they see their lands ravaged and their lords penned inside a wall, will they pay?
- The lands ravaged and depopulated by the civil war were filled up by arriving Turks who colonised the land through a mixture of conquest and trade.
- The Nile was turned to blood; the land ravaged with locusts and frogs; the whole country plunged into impenetrable darkness.
- Eltharion lost nearly all of his family and saw his ancestral lands ravaged and burned in the cataclysmic Goblin invasion of Yvresse led by Grom the Paunch.
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