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1 Wordsworth chanted that in getting and spending we lay waste our powers.
2 We could not lay waste our powers in a more satisfying manner.
3 They would fly abroad countless as locusts, and lay waste men's souls.
4 The lands lay waste , the people disappeared in tens of thousands.
5 At this time terrible calamities began to lay waste the land.
6 Fields lay waste and sheep and cattle wandered over the countryside.
7 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste .
8 These war-parties lay waste the tracks they visit for endless time.
9 The enemy, he told them, intended to lay waste the country.
10 To lay waste to any threat despite the environment it was faced with.
11 If he must retreat, he would lay waste the enemy's country.
12 Jump in, lay waste to your foes, and jump out before reinforcements arrive.
13 It is a virulent contagion that will lay waste his life.
14 It was an evil large enough to lay waste to an entire world.
15 Armed brigands, taking advantage of the general disorder, began to lay waste the provinces.
16 In her anger Artemis had sent the monster boar to lay waste Oeneus's realm.
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