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Sentences ending with destroyed

The beautiful nut-trees which Hannele had planted had to be destroyed. [10]
Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were destroyed? [4]
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
But no foe was seen or heard, and the Hebrews found some tokens of the thirst for vengeance of the sons of the wilderness in their ruined houses, the superb palm-trees felled, and little gardens destroyed. [10]
At least it was all spontaneous; it was not made to order on any page of it, and it is the handful left from very many handfuls destroyed. [11]
I, who ought to say to him, as I so long determined: 'You shall be destroyed. [11]
We have got to move or be content to see our effects wasted away and utterly destroyed. [5]
So long as this Will can compel the bodies of soldiers to do its bidding, these bodies must be destroyed. [9]
The army destroyed; the desertion of Herod and Pinarius; Antony's generous, trusting heart torn by base treachery, his soul darkened; the reconstruction of the canal, the last hope--Gorgias brought the news--the same as destroyed. [10]
It is estimated that not less than 800 persons were killed by the Indians, and a large amount of property was destroyed. [7]

Short sentences using destroyed

Had an enemy destroyed them? [13]
Why had he destroyed Lise? [9]
This news destroyed Barbara's composure. [10]
It destroyed me. [5]
They've destroyed her. [2]

Sentences containing destroyed two or more times

It was plain that the Russian nest was ruined and destroyed, but in place of the Russian order of life that had been destroyed, Pierre unconsciously felt that a quite different, firm, French order had been established over this ruined nest. [2]
It has destroyed property, destroyed life, and ruined homes. [7]
By the terms of the law, if the Indians destroyed the property, there was no relief for Fisher; but if the troops destroyed it, the Government of the United States was debtor to Fisher for the amount involved. [5]

More example sentences with the word destroyed in them

I see that you, too, are ready to depart and should grieve to behold the comfort of your aged hosts destroyed by hasty acts that may yet be needless. [10]
The Emperor was with the army to encourage it, but his presence and ignorance of what steps to take, and the enormous number of advisers and plans, destroyed the first army's energy and it retired. [2]
Seitz first knocked with his fingers and then with his clenched fist, until the grandmother exclaimed: "You have destroyed the house, at least spare the doors. [10]
And if the will and letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s'ensuit! [2]
His hidden gold, which was safe with him, would have allowed of his building a far finer one in its stead, but the fact that it should be his fellow-citizens who had destroyed it was worst of all. [10]
The chair in which the President sat, while declining to take a glass of lager I have had destroyed, in order that no one may sit in it. [4]
St. George's Church, where she was buried, was destroyed by fire in 1727. [4]
I hear of what has come to you--how easily I might have destroyed all! [11]
His fairest hopes were destroyed, yet deep grief struggled with glad exaltation. [10]
As indeed it was; for as sorely as Tom's hands itched to grab for it they did not dare--he believed his soul would be instantly destroyed if he did such a thing while the prayer was going on. [5]
Yet the King was still ill-disposed to the merchant, for while he destroyed Archias's death sentence which had been laid before him for his signature, he said to Philippus: "The money-bag whose life I give you was the friend of my foe. [10]
The Kremlin, which was not destroyed, gleamed white in the distance with its towers and the belfry of Ivan the Great. [2]
His bodily health was destroyed, his mind had lost its buoyancy, and he was now fifty years old. [10]
About 510 it was conquered and destroyed by the Crotoniates and then rebuilt under the name of Thurii. [10]
They had been warned that the river Indians were as ferocious and pitiless as the river demon, and destroyed all comers without waiting for provocation; but no matter, Joliet and Marquette struck into the country to hunt up the proprietors of the tracks. [5]
But they have wantonly destroyed their own masterpiece, have crushed the scarce-opened bud, have darkened the star ere it has risen! [10]
But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. [5]
She was not twenty-six years of age, and to have learned the truth at twenty-six, and still not to have been wholly destroyed by the lies of life, was something which might be turned to good account. [11]
Breaking away from traditions and not going to church have not destroyed the need in the minds of the mass of people for something outside themselves. [4]
Everywhere in its track it annihilated houses, tore off roofs, destroyed trees and crops. [5]
From December, 1602, to the December following, the plague destroyed 30,518 persons in London; the same disease that in the sixth year of Elizabeth killed 20,500, and in the thirty-sixth year 17,890, besides the lord mayor and three aldermen. [4]
Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it. [2]
Clemens himself confessed to Howells that He wished, when it was too late, that he had destroyed a number of them. [5]
He had come to his mother, believing that the visit would comfort and calm his troubled mind, but Sappho's words had destroyed his last hope, and with that his last possibility of rest or peace. [10]
His business was to get pay for some cotton that was destroyed during the war. [5]
Yet he intended to bind the fate of the woman he loved to his own, for Els, spite of the opposition of his family, would have been already indissolubly united to him, had not one failure after another destroyed his courage to take her hand. [10]
If they were to be destroyed, it would necessarily be in a few seconds from the first thrill of the terrible convulsion. [6]
It only destroyed three thousand and seventy lives last year by collisions, and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty by running over heedless and unnecessary people at crossings. [5]
I have preserved thousands of their letters, and destroyed a very large number, after answering most of them. [6]
Sometimes Augusta Maturin thought of Janet as a wildflower--one of the rare, shy ones, hiding under its leaves; sprung up in Hampton, of all places, crushed by a heedless foot, yet miraculously not destroyed, and already pushing forth new and eager tendrils. [9]
To have all this destroyed was a terrible thought, but even more unbearable was that of its object--to receive the body of the Queen. [10]
Most gentlemen, I think, would have destroyed it on the spot, as it was not fit for the waste-basket. [6]
Had disease destroyed them, or only that greatest destroyer--time? [13]
They say that the railroad has destroyed the people's government. [9]
They have destroyed the image of Serapis! [10]
The irregulars destroyed the great army piecemeal. [2]
Fire had destroyed the dwelling-place of justice, like the Egyptian cities to whom the prophet had announced a similar fate a thousand years since. [10]
When he destroyed the Church and burned the idols he did a mighty thing for civilization and for his people's weal--but it was not "business. [5]
Its citizens were the barbarians who destroyed its own monuments of civilization. [4]
On or about the 1st day of September, 1813, the Creek war being then in progress in Florida, the crops, herds, and houses of Mr. George Fisher, a citizen, were destroyed, either by the Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them. [5]
They are convinced that if the world doesn't go on in their way, according to their principles, everything will be destroyed. [9]
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. [2]
Everyone assured himself that all would happen according to plan, and therefore insisted that it was just the crossing of the Berezina that destroyed the French army. [2]
We gutted it, taking all its stores and artillery, and then destroyed it. [5]
You may be sure the emblem of Catholicism found upon her was destroyed, and she was baptized straightway by Doctor Hilliard, my grandfather's chaplain, into the Established Church. [9]
Had he, like St. Francis, rushed among briers, his blood would not have turned into roses, but doubtless fresh memories of her whose happiness his guilt had so suddenly and cruelly destroyed. [10]
For the evil spirits which dwell in every human being, and are emanations from Ahriman, will be destroyed in the punishment inflicted on men after death. [10]
Barbara saw her son for only a few more fleeting hours; the "Spanish fury" which destroyed the flower of Antwerp doubled his business cares, forbade any delay, and imperiously claimed his whole time and strength. [10]
After he had slain Seitz Siebenburg in the sword combat, and destroyed his brother's castle, his resolve to woo Eva became absolutely fixed. [10]
To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal. [2]
Well done--there were six enemies of the Lord destroyed at once. [10]
But the composure she needed for prayer was soon destroyed, for the image of the knight rose before her again and again, and it seemed as if her own name, which he had called with such ardent longing, once more rang in her ears. [10]
Everything that had seemed to her beautiful and pleasant in her parents' home--was being destroyed here. [10]
Barbara's impetuous nature seemed destroyed and crushed, and the bright gaiety which had pleased Frau Dubois so much the first day of their meeting had greatly diminished. [10]
Yet strange to say Boris' presence in his wife's drawing room (and he was almost always there) had a physical effect upon Pierre; it constricted his limbs and destroyed the unconsciousness and freedom of his movements. [2]
If I had said some of the things I have referred to, and said them in his hearing, he would have destroyed me. [5]
She tried to rouse herself, to think, to consider a situation in which her instinct had whispered just once--there must be some hidden danger: but the electric touch of his hand destroyed the process, and made her incapable of reason. [9]
His master, Papias, returned to Alexandria, but he was received there by his fellow-artists with such insulting contempt, that in an evil hour he destroyed himself. [10]
The temple desecrators removed and destroyed one venerable, holy image after another. [10]
And her impatience reached its height when, before she could leave, some of the imperial troopers stabled their horses at the carrier's and reported that Castle Siebenburg and the robber stronghold of the Absbachs were destroyed. [10]
Even as he predicted who had given it birth, the Question destroyed the great Democratic Party. [9]
Without doubt some practical person had come along and mended the leak, and then had come up and told the abbot he had discovered by divination that if the sinful bath were destroyed the well would flow again. [5]
Iras had provided poisoned pins which had speedily destroyed the animals upon which they had been tried. [10]
The more the plundering by the French continued, the more both the wealth of Moscow and the strength of its plunderers was destroyed. [2]
The influence of Philostratus, too, was of course destroyed by his brother's infamous deed. [10]
He should hear--nay, perhaps he should see--that she was still desired, in spite of the theft which he had committed, in spite of the cruelty with which Fate had destroyed the best treasure that it had generously bestowed. [10]
Lamenting because the papers hadn't been destroyed and the money kept. [5]
I wrote 280 pages on a yarn called "Tom Sawyer Abroad," then took up the "Twins" again, destroyed the last half of the manuscript and re-wrote it in another form, and am going to continue it and finish it in Florence. [5]
Destroyed, like her own, by the war. [9]
What if his own Demeter had been destroyed and Myrtilus's statue saved? [10]
A little thought ought to convince us that the liberation of the individual could not be revoked, that it had forever destroyed the power of authority to carry conviction. [9]
Newton, on the other hand, believed that new motions were generated and existing ones destroyed. [3]
Then, at the other end of the line, at the very time Sumner was being murdered, Lawrence was being destroyed for the crime of freedom. [7]
Not to memories or regrets, but to the future, for the recording angel had mercifully destroyed his book. [9]
When love has once taken firm hold of a man in riper years, it runs and winds through his whole nature like one of his veins, and can only be destroyed with his life. [10]
There, when the old woman's back was turned, he moulded a variety of images which he destroyed as soon as they were finished. [10]
But it is often given to one man to work out the salvation of a people, and be destroyed for it. [9]
The few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good-natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design. [2]
The combined monarchies of the thirty "kings" destroyed by Joshua on one of his famous campaigns, only covered an area about equal to four of our counties of ordinary size. [5]
Nearly a third of the shed roof over our heads was destroyed, and one of the stove lids, after cutting a small stanchion half in two in front of the Indian, whizzed between us and drove partly through the weather-boarding beyond. [5]
Though a portion of the roof was destroyed and the chancel gutted, the church was not beyond repair, and a few thousand dollars would put it right. [11]
Since every hope of the happiness awaiting her was destroyed, she no longer sought to palliate the wrongs Hermon had inflicted upon her. [10]
A considerable part of our village was destroyed, and when it became safe for us to venture back there we realized what other people had been suffering in all the various quarters of France for many years--yes, decades of years. [5]
Again the peace of mind which he thought he had regained during slumber was destroyed. [10]
A venerable abode of intellectual life was destroyed with this monastery, founded by a Count von Calw early in the ninth century. [10]
Unfortunately, the end of his speech destroyed all the prospects held out in the beginning. [10]
The quiet comfort of former days had been clouded, nay, destroyed, by these patriots. [10]
All the registers of burial in the church were destroyed by the great fire of 1666, which burnt down the edifice from floor to roof, leaving only the walls and tower standing. [4]
Now, because that odour of alcohol Lise exhaled had destroyed in Janet the sense of exhilaration, of life on a higher plane she had begun to feel, and filled her with degradation, she hated Lise, felt for her sister no strain of pity. [9]
The astonished government now took hold of Thuggee, and for ten years made systematic and relentless war upon it, and finally destroyed it. [5]
The answer did not say 'the kingdom of Persia,' but 'a kingdom' should be destroyed through your desire for war. [10]
The battalion had not been moved till twenty-four hours after the order was given, or we should never have gained those heights; stones rolled from the cliff would have destroyed an army. [11]
You must know, my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have been destroyed or not. [2]
Mr. Cleves gained much applause for his well-considered wish that all that has been written in the world, all books and libraries, could be destroyed, so as to give a chance to the new men and the fresh ideas of the new era. [4]
The comfort of most of Philippus's guests was destroyed, and the ladies uttered a sigh of relief when they had descended from the lofty galley and the boats that conveyed them ashore, and their feet once more pressed the solid land. [10]
We hear no more from them officially until 1848, sixteen years after their first attempt on the Treasury, and a full generation after the death of the man whose fields were destroyed. [5]
I destroyed the mongrel reptile on the spot, but I smiled and smiled all the time I was detaching his scalp, for the remark he made was good for an "Injun. [5]
Why, at such moments, should she glory in a strength that had destroyed her and why, when she heard him cursed as the man who stood, more than any other, in the way of the strikers victory, should she paradoxically and fiercely rejoice? [9]
Now the decisive moment of battle had come when Kutuzov would be destroyed and the power pass to Bennigsen, or even if Kutuzov won the battle it would be felt that everything was done by Bennigsen. [2]
It swarms with mice and fleas, and if the rest of the world were destroyed it could furnish dirt enough to start another one with. [5]

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