Crossword-Solution: DEVASTATOR 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But cunningly compounded poisons, charms, and incantations were all of no avail against this grizzly devastator.

Covetousness may lead to industry, sensual appetites may beget noble fruit, but hatred is a devastator, and in the soul that it occupies all that is noble grows not upwards and towards the light, but downwards to the earth and to darkness.

One the victorious defender of his country,--a victory solid, durable, and just; the other the conquering devastator of a neighbouring people,--a victory, glittering, evanescent, and dishonourable.

Huge piles from earth his mighty hand Sweeps to oblivion's empire dread, What villages, what cities grand, What kingdoms sink beneath his tread! Heroes in vain, his gauntlet cast, Oppose his stern and ruthless sway, Nor armies brave, nor mountains vast, Can thwart the devastator's way.

Poet after poet sang of "the Devastator of England," the "Eagle of men that loves not to lie nor sleep," "towering above the rest of men with his long red lance," his "red helmet of battle crested with a fierce wolf." "The sound of his coming is like the roar of the wave as it rushes to the shore, that can neither be stayed nor hushed." Lesser bards strung together Llewelyn's victories in rough jingle of rime and hounded him on to the slaughter.