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Sentences starting with destruction

Destruction to them! [10]

Sentences ending with destruction

Whichever side the young man takes, he goes to destruction. [4]
To surrender now would mean destruction. [9]
Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and Russia's glory were led to destruction. [2]
We cannot, then, we cannot be circling inward to be swallowed up in the whirlpool of national destruction. [6]
Baton, hat, and veil skimmed by and disappeared, and the crash of the rocks--which I had started--as they fell on to the glacier, told how narrow had been the escape from utter destruction. [5]
If we ever tried to reason with him, he would threaten to stop his paper, and, of course, that meant bankruptcy and destruction. [5]
He who was to perish in misery is permitted, with a sword at his side, to gloat over our destruction. [10]
I had hoped to aid in crushing the hated foe, and now perhaps it was I who had built for him the bridge to victory, to sovereignty, to our destruction. [10]
Little wonder that these dreamed of Hessians and destruction. [9]
It was during their severest distresses, when their most celebrated chief was a captive in their hands, and was dragged through the country as a spectacle for the sport and derision of their people, that she places herself between him and destruction. [4]

Short sentences using destruction

Its track was destruction. [4]
Swift work is destruction! [10]
Was it not courting destruction? [9]
The destruction was awful. [5]

More example sentences with the word destruction in them

They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
Out into the wild night, the pitchy darkness, the billowy snow, the driving storm, every soul leaped, with the consciousness that a moment lost now might bring destruction to us all. [5]
And the moon, which was to cause this destruction, had but a short time before been the ally of his flight and favored him. [10]
The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the government under which we live is this very thing. [7]
The Scythian guards, which at last put a stop to the frantic rage of the deluded populace, arrived too late to prevent the destruction of the house, but they saved Philotas and the other youths from the fists and stones of the rabble. [10]
All the different ways of getting hot and tired were gone through with, and by-and-by the rovers straggled back to camp fortified with responsible appetites, and then the destruction of the good things began. [5]
In the same way little by little he came to understand the news he had been told after his rescue, about the death of Prince Andrew, the death of his wife, and the destruction of the French. [2]
His future happiness was to arise from the destruction of this proud city, stifling in its gold. [10]
If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives. [2]
The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
An impure corpse was not permitted to defile the pure earth by its decay; nor might it be committed to the fire or water for destruction, as their purity would be equally polluted by such an act. [10]
But his purpose was not fulfilled, for suddenly, flaming with passionate wrath, she thrust the purse aside, groaning: "Not an obol of the accursed destruction of souls shall come back to Hanno, nor even into the family store. [10]
I say it was conceived in violence, because the destruction of the Missouri Compromise, under the circumstances, was nothing less than violence. [7]
It is a war claim which implies no private gain, and no compensation except for one of the cases of destruction incident to war, which may well be repaired by the people of the whole country. [5]
Last week in Vienna a hailstorm struck the prodigious Central Cemetery and made wasteful destruction there. [5]
He intended to use this invention in the capture of St. Louis, exploding his torpedoes over the city, and raining destruction upon it until the army of occupation would gladly capitulate. [5]
They must first try to save Myrtilus's work and, when that was accomplished, preserve his also from destruction by the flames. [10]
Then my father tried to escape the final destruction by attempting to kill himself.--Is it so? [10]
The bane of travel is the destruction of illusions. [4]
It is soothing to the heart to abuse England and France for interposing to save the Ottoman Empire from the destruction it has so richly deserved for a thousand years. [5]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
It seemed strange to Lawless that this old man beside him should be thus peaceful in his habits, the most primitive and arcadian of farmers, and yet one whose trade was blood--whose one purpose in life was destruction and vengeance. [11]
I was able to influence him to his destruction, and now I am powerless. [9]
We now began to creep along flimsy bridges of a single plank, our persons shielded from destruction by a crazy wooden railing, to which I clung with both hands--not because I was afraid, but because I wanted to. [5]
From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow no one of Bezukhov's household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was. [2]
So they but thrive, they care not if the crown go to destruction and the King with it. [5]
Torture rose from those four immeasurable chords; destruction was afoot upon them; a dreadful dance of death supervened. [11]
Yet was not this people thus marked for destruction, the nation which the Lord had chosen for His own? [10]
The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
Trying it a third morning, I was obliged to throw it over the fence in order to save from destruction the green things that ought to grow in the garden. [4]
The people believed they had found it; not in the destruction of universal suffrage, but in the enlargement of it. [5]
Then, too late, they became aware that to return would ensure more speedy destruction than to boldly press forward. [10]
My daughter, let these tears sink deep into thy soul, and no longer persist in that which may be your destruction and ruin. [5]
We must save the word from this destruction. [5]
That voice is the voice of patience and resignation; that voice is one that bears everything calmly and dispassionately, amid the most distressing scenes; when the fates are arrayed against her peace, and apparently plotting for her destruction, still she is resigned. [5]
He had led the troops successfully through the deserts between Syria and the Egyptian Delta without losing a single man on the dangerous road by the Sirbonian Sea and Barathra, where many an army had met destruction. [10]
The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by the Indians "before the troops started in pursuit," and of course the government was not responsible for that half. [5]
A sense of the striving and the suffering deeply possessed him; and this grew the more intense as he gained some knowledge of the forces at work-forces of pity, of destruction, of perdition, of salvation. [8]
Hence we behold the process by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty. [7]
The Bishop and the monks in the Serapeum, meant the overthrow of the statue of the sovereign god--death and destruction. [10]
Duke of Bedford, the Maid prays you not to bring about your own destruction. [5]
Constantine had disappeared; the ladders and the plinth of the statue were covered with a swarm of soldiers and monks who were finishing the work of destruction. [10]
And she contemplated the Honora of other days--of the flesh, as though she were now the spirit departed from that body; sorrowfully, poignantly regretful of the earthly motives, of the tarnished ideals by which it had been animated and led to destruction. [9]
The thought of the goblet and its evil influences had by no means passed from her memory with the destruction of the vessel caused by one of those outbursts of passion to which, in these days of disaster, she yielded more frequently than usual. [10]
The cause of the destruction of the French army in 1812 is clear to us now. [2]
The other, from the countess, described their last days in Moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property. [2]
We wrote for that, and sometimes verses in the corner of a paper called 'The Anti-Masonic Mirror,' and in which corner was a woodcut of Apollo, and inviting to destruction ambitious youths by the legend underneath,-- 'Much yet remains unsung. [6]
It is said that but for the use of this root the destruction of the people in former times by certain imported diseases would have been far greater than it was, and by others it is said that this is merely a fancy. [5]
Then he went tearing around the house again spreading chaos and destruction in his path. [5]
There have been such nearly ideal places, and how strong nature, always working against man and in the interest of untamed wildness, likes to riot in them and reduce them to picturesque destruction! [4]
It was either success or absolute destruction. [11]
White did, indeed, start out from Biddeford in April, 1588, with two vessels, but the temptation to chase prizes was too strong for him, and he went on a cruise of his own, and left the colony to its destruction. [4]
Everything points to speedy destruction, everything! [10]
Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? [7]
Oh, my dear sir, printing bills are destruction itself. [5]
The destruction of simplicity is a craving for things, not because we need them, but because others have them. [4]
Every prophecy, every Sibylline text, every oracle must be false if the overthrow of that image could remain unpunished--if the destruction of the universe failed to follow, as surely as a, flood ensues from a breach in a dyke. [10]
He came near sharing the fate of Brigond, for the yawl grazed the needle of the rock that, hiding away in the water, with a nose out for destruction, awaits its victims. [11]
Every where, you see things that make you wonder how old these old houses were before the night of destruction came--things, too, which bring back those long dead inhabitants and place the living before your eyes. [5]
We had been saved from immediate destruction, but it certainly seemed like exchanging Tophet for a slow fire. [11]
And it is said that five hundred years afterward he followed Mahomet when he carried destruction to the cities of Arabia, and then turned against him, hoping in this way to win the death of a traitor. [5]
But Kuni remained resolute, and when he at last perceived that his opposition only increased her obstinacy, he exclaimed: "Then rush on to your destruction! [10]
What I beheld raising you to the stars, as though with eagles' wings, was a clogging weight; what seemed to me at a distance the bright sunshine irradiating your path, was a Will-o'-the-wisp luring to destruction. [10]
Ever since the purchase of Joan, Cauchon had been busy packing his jury for the destruction of the Maid--weeks and weeks he had spent in this bad industry. [5]
The destruction of property was trifling--the injury to it was wide-spread and somewhat serious. [5]
All a man's property going to ruin and destruction before his eyes, and ask him if anything is wrong? [5]
There is no program offered by any wing of the Democratic party but that must result in the permanent destruction of the Union. [7]
He was ruined past hope now; his destruction would be immediate and sure, and he would be an outcast and friendless. [5]
But again the passion for its destruction came on him, because he heard his daughter moaning in the other room. [11]
A repeal also passed of that law, the destruction of all laws, by which the King's proclamation was made of equal force with a statute. [5]
They had been out-manoeuvred, beaten, foiled, knew who had foiled them and what they had escaped; congratulated themselves, but had no gratitude to him, and still plotted his destruction. [11]
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. [7]
She wished no other guide; nay the thought of going to destruction with Peter had no terror to her. [10]
The falling masses, or huge fragments breaking off from them, would have swept the house and all around it to destruction but for this deep shelving dell, into which the stream of ruin was happily directed. [6]
So they rushed on without stopping, like a thunderstorm pregnant with destruction which the wind drives over a terrified village. [10]
Now they were on the verge of destruction, and he, Ephraim, who came from the camp of the enemy, was perhaps the sole person who saw the full extent of the danger. [10]
Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus. [10]
The mightiest realm on earth owes its power to murder and rapine; but now sudden destruction is coming on the insatiate city, and visitation for her sins. [10]
That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgment just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them. [5]
Since the destruction of the watercourse, under the Emperor Julian, the underground conduit had been dry and empty, and a man by slightly stooping could readily pass through it unseen into the Serapeum. [10]
A vast number of the populace ascended the citadel hill early in the morning, to get out of the way of the general destruction, and many of the infatuated closed up their shops and retired from all earthly business. [5]
Before the destruction of the heathen sanctuaries it had been a temple of Imhotep, the Egyptian Esculapius, the beneficient god of healing, who had had his places of special worship even in the city of the dead. [10]
But the destruction of the French, which he alone foresaw, was his heart's one desire. [2]
By the destruction of the calumny he would at least atone for a portion of his sin. [10]
Instantly the fire-doors of the Boreas were thrown open and the men began dashing buckets of water into the furnaces--for it would have been death and destruction to stop the engines with such a head of steam on. [5]
For her gifts of place or fortune she puts some impossible hunger in the soul of the victim which leads him at last to his own destruction. [11]
After the destruction of Moscow and of his property, thrown out of his accustomed groove he seemed to have lost the sense of his own significance and to feel that there was no longer a place for him in life. [2]
Such another destruction of mantel ornaments and toilet bottles as the earthquake created, San Francisco never saw before. [5]
As to destruction of life, it was amazing. [5]
First, the object of Lee's recent movement against Meade; his destruction of the Alexandria and Orange Railroad, and subsequent withdrawal without more motive, not otherwise apparent, would be explained by this hypothesis. [7]
A large portion of her territory has been depopulated, and a severe loss has been sustained by the destruction of property. [7]
During this work of destruction, Isabella entered the room. [10]
On the eve of destruction the earth must surely look differently from this; and it struck her as highly improbable that the gods should have revealed their purpose to such a queer old driveller as this priest, and have hidden it from other men. [10]
And then --all of a sudden, out went the bottom and everything and everybody went to ruin and destruction! [5]
His moments seemed numbered, his destruction certain, when suddenly a trumpet-blast sounded, a voice shouted, "Way for the King's messenger! [5]
I look back now, from this far distance of seventy years, and note with sorrow the stages of that dream's destruction. [5]
She said that no true woman could stand such pampering of her senses without destruction of her moral fibre. [4]
It was found necessary to conceal the real stone in this way in order to save it from destruction. [5]
The authors of Nebraska are not at all satisfied with the destruction of the compromise--an indorsement of this principle they proclaim to be the great object. [7]
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens: minister in Boston, 12, 26, 27, 52; Memoir, 29; destruction of Goldau, 31. [6]

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