Nearer and much louder a night bird called across the desolate countryside.

Whatever the truth of it, Gillda had vanished, as if absorbed into the desolate countryside where she had lived.

But it was built in 1751 as an inland lighthouse to guide travellers across what was then an empty open and desolate countryside.

He wakes and find himself back in the desolate countryside, lying next to a heap of skulls under a gallows.

They set off across desolate, hilly countryside.

The scrub woods changed to dark, desolate countryside, with nothing to be seen in the way of human habitation.

The elephants move across the desolate countryside toward the distant hills.

Macedonian Greece is an area of rugged terrain and desolate countryside.

After making a suicide attempt in a barn that fails when the rope breaks, the peasant trudges off into the desolate countryside.

The inn stood at 1425 feet above sea level in desolate countryside.