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Here rages the destroying pestilence! [10]

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Formerly the hosts who came from the east, and fell on our land like swarms of locusts, robbing and destroying it, were spoken of as 'a curse' and a 'pest. [10]
They keep always trying to make your bed before you get up, thus destroying your rest and inflicting agony upon you; but after you get up, they don't come any more till next day. [5]
It is necessary to define this with some precision, in order to discuss intelligently the means of destroying this class. [4]
You can hinder these sparks from kindling a destroying fire among your loved ones, and this should be your duty. [10]
But look at the records of the life-insurance offices, and see how uniform is the action of nature's destroying agencies. [6]
We too will take part..." the reader went on, and then paused ("Do you see," shouted the youth victoriously, "he's going to clear up the whole affair for you...."), "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil. [2]
There was no sort of necessity for destroying it to organize these Territories. [7]
In destroying his shrines you ruin his hopes, and with them all the joy of life. [10]
Yet physical fear she had never felt, not since that day when the battle raged in the Vier Marchi, and Philip d'Avranche had saved her from the destroying scimitar of the Turk. [11]
Quantities of coarse salt and sulphate of copper were added, from time to time to assist the amalgamation by destroying base metals which coated the gold and silver and would not let it unite with the quicksilver. [5]
He longs to rescue individuals, to protect communities from the inroads of these destroying agencies. [6]
So the historians of this class, by mutually destroying one another's positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history's essential question. [2]
In this state of affairs the Genius of Discord himself could scarcely have invented a way of again setting us by the ears but by turning back and destroying the peace measures of the past. [7]
All she did not like she could empty into the mill of the destroying gods: just as General Grant poured hundreds of thousands of men into the valley of the James, not thinking of lives but victory, not of blood but triumph. [11]
However, it was not for that that I left him jailed, but for maliciously destroying the only public well in one of his wretched villages. [5]
If they will not do this--if they prefer to hazard all for the sake of destroying the government--it is for them to consider whether it is probable I will surrender the government to save them from losing all. [7]
But it could not be loosened from above, if at all, and he himself would be in the path of the destroying hill. [11]
Perhaps there is no danger, but the American people have developed an unexpected capacity for destroying things; they can destroy anything. [4]
This city and most of the middle and northern counties are insurrectionary,--burning bridges, destroying telegraph lines, etc.,--and can be kept down only by the presence of troops. [7]
The splendidly mounted masses of Moslem soldiers swept round the north end of Genessaret, burning and destroying as they came, and pitched their camp in front of the opposing lines. [5]
Kutuzov alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care to hear the details. [2]
Instead of breaking ladies' hearts, he is destroying the castles of robber knights and disturbers of the peace of the country. [10]
Had he ever known these wild, destroying desires? [9]
He was the inventor of the famous air torpedo, which came very near destroying the Union armies in Missouri, and the city of St. Louis itself. [5]
I feel as if I were destroying sin. [4]
But I said I was willing to let her hang him for destroying the well; so she concluded to put up with that, as it was better than nothing. [5]
And how Bill Hickman, a Destroying Angel, shot Drown and Arnold dead for bringing suit against him for a debt. [5]
You have taken her under your protection, but surely your own niece, Iras, is dearer to you, so you will approve of my destroying the will if Dion insists upon his own way. [10]
This thought entered her mind and, overpowered by a feeling of angry disgust, she would fain have cast all the costly rubbish into the sea or the destroying flames. [10]
The misfortunes that have befallen you in these days will end by destroying you, if you will not pull yourself together. [10]
In every Northern graveyard slumber the victims of this destroying struggle. [6]
The wild mustard glowed so like a golden carpet, that the destroying hand of the anxious farmer seemed of the blundering tyranny of labour. [11]
Erase the hour from out Thy calendar, Turn back the hands upon the clock of Time, Oh, Artificer of destroying War-- Their righteous hate who bore us in our crime! [11]
It was the first time I had ever seen this sort of criminals denied the privilege of destroying the comfort of a house full of their betters. [5]
And only that feeling placed him on that highest human pedestal from which he, the commander in chief, devoted all his powers not to slaying and destroying men but to saving and showing pity on them. [2]
But when my father learns that it is you who have given me the portrait--" "Is he capable of destroying it? [10]
For not upon empty pretext destroying the rich and seizing their property; 4. [5]
At a discreet distance from the head and the tail hover the jackals of La Manche: the Paternosters, the Dirouilles, and the Ecrehos, themselves destroying where they may, or filching the remains of the tiger's feast of shipwreck and ruin. [11]
If the Cossacks did not capture Napoleon then, what saved him was the very thing that was destroying the French army, the booty on which the Cossacks fell. [2]
And beware of destroying stores of any kind, or any papers or letters that are in your possession; or of hurting one house in the town. [9]
Secondly it was attained by the guerrilla warfare which was destroying the French, and thirdly by the fact that a large Russian army was following the French, ready to use its strength in case their movement stopped. [2]
To cause suffering, as the result of sin, is the means of destroying sin. [5]
Is controlling it as other property the same thing as destroying it, or driving it away? [7]
There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying "plough" of prophecy passed harmless. [5]
He seized the ancient book, as it were to deliver its incantations against everyone destroying his peace, stealing from him that which he prized beyond all earthly things. [11]
The Monument is an awful place to visit,--I said.---The waves of time are like the waves of the ocean; the only thing they beat against without destroying it is a rock; and they destroy that at last. [6]
They understand, without an argument, that the destroying of the government which was made by Washington means no good to them. [7]
The Richmond papers also stated, upon what authority not mentioned, that our cavalry have been at Ashland, Hanover Court-House, and other points, destroying several locomotives and a good deal of other property, and all the railroad bridges to within five miles of Richmond. [7]
A few hours ago the constables had hard work to prevent the deluded people from destroying the house of the profligate Es, and now one half of the distinguished honourable Councillors come to pay their homage. [10]
Guerillas were roving about, tearing up ties and destroying bridges. [9]
On the 23d a rebel force of 7000 to 10,000 fell upon one regiment and two companies guarding the bridge at Front Royal, destroying it entirely; crossed the Shenandoah, and on the 24th (yesterday) pushed to get north of Banks, on the road to Winchester. [7]
I ordered out a flock of Destroying Angels, and they hunted the man far into the fastnesses of the Nevada mountains. [5]
I had heard a deal about these Mormon Destroying Angels and the dark and bloody deeds they had done, and when I entered this one's house I had my shudder all ready. [5]

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