ravages

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“The virus is never the only protagonist of the story,” writes Paul Farmer in his new book, “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

Virus Ravages Cassava Plants in Africa MUKONO, Uganda — Lynet Nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open.

From New York Times • May 31, 2010

In The Ravages of Spring a middle-aged country doctor on a round of house calls finds himself threatened by a string of tornadoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ravages were committed, and they made incursions in every direction on the Roman territory from the Janiculum as if from a fortress; no where were the cattle or the husbandmen safe.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

L Ravages committed by, on New England settlements, 12; in Acadia, 228.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various