How long the place had lain desolate, he could not know.

'Then the land shall pay for its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate.'

Only once did she look back at the leathery egg lying desolate in the snow, blurred by the swirling wind and by her own sudden welling of tears.

Rabbi Abulafia is to rebuild the city of Tiberias, which has lain desolate for some 70 years.

It was sold to a speculative 'developer' around 1999 and has lain desolate and untouched.

On the other hand, the only notice taken of the Israelites in Egyptian documents of the period is an inscription reading, "Israel lies desolate; its seed is no more."

The other series is more abstract, with images of stepped pyramids, vegetation licking up around them, lying crushed and desolate under enormous tropical moons.

But since the day she had lain sick and desolate in the garden at Twelve Oaks and said: "I won't look back," she had set her face against the past.

In either a near-future or alternate present reality, the Earth lies nearly desolate after extensive overuse of its resources in order to colonise other planets.

The finest, most modern and efficient shipping port in the world, lying desolate and seemingly abandoned, haunted him.