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Sentences starting with ruin

Ruin may take its course. [10]

Sentences ending with ruin

So it is written; and you could actually declare before the judges a thing that was false, and that you knew would bring others to ruin? [10]
I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
Still, large as was the promised sum, it would by no means be sufficient to save the Eysvogel business from ruin. [10]
A sharp suspicion was in her heart that somehow or other her father was responsible for this man's degradation and ruin. [11]
And now he was deceiving her and going to ruin. [10]
For awhile there was a partial break, which furnished about such a sunset as will be exhibited when the Last Day comes and the universe tumbles together in wreck and ruin. [5]
Nor can I understand how doing so is bad faith and dishonor, nor yet how it so exposes Kentucky to ruin. [7]
To fight in Tunis against the crescent, he let our flourishing lumber trade go to ruin! [10]
I had some trouble at first to find a name for him, but I finally concluded to call him Baalbec, because he is such a magnificent ruin. [5]
Here, all bunched together--of all kinds, they are 7 per cent--simply ruin. [5]

Short sentences using ruin

Let them ruin us! [2]
Her pa don't ruin her! [9]
He can't want my ruin. [2]
Let ruin pursue its course. [10]
I didn't ruin him. [11]
You will ruin her, M'sieu'! [11]
Then might come her ruin. [13]
What do you call ruin? [13]
Ashes, and dust, and ruin! [12]

Sentences containing ruin two or more times

It was neither vulgar nor cowardly to pass quietly from forces making for ruin, and so avert ruin and secure happiness. [11]
My dear General, this expanding and piling up of impedimenta has been, so far, almost our ruin, and will be our final ruin if it is not abandoned. [7]
It is not only true that a fortune may be made here in a day or lost here in a day, but that a nod and a wink here enable people all over the land to ruin others or ruin themselves with celerity. [4]
This ruin had nothing very imposing or picturesque about it, and there was no great deal of it, yet it was called the "Spectacular Ruin. [5]
Here, you may look in whatsoever direction you please, and your eye encounters scarcely any thing but ruin, ruin, ruin!--fragments of houses, crumbled walls, torn and ragged hills, devastation every where! [5]
But Tull and his churchmen wouldn't ruin Jane Withersteen unless the Church was to profit by that ruin. [13]

More example sentences with the word ruin in them

If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, take it..." He threw it on the table. [2]
Do that, or you will go to ruin, and that would be a pity! [10]
I listened to you when you told me lies as to how it would ruin him . [9]
I did you wrong, yet I did not mean to ruin your life, and you should know that. [11]
France was a wreck, a ruin, a desolation. [5]
To acknowledge it would be ruin, for all the world knows that Captain Philip d'Avranche of the King's navy is now the adopted son of the Duc de Bercy. [11]
If the whole world crumbles into ruin, I shall neither marvel nor grieve. [10]
Here was a wooden-head whom I had put in the way of glittering promotions and prodigious responsibilities, and but one thing could happen: he and his responsibilities would all go to ruin together at the first opportunity. [5]
It was a woman, and this other woman, this Mrs. Falchion knows, and she would try to ruin you, or"--here she seemed to be moved suddenly by a new thought--"or have you love her. [11]
Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
And now--now he will ruin himself in this world, and the next. [10]
Such a man will be likely to put his garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay. [4]
Maybe that was why--though he may not have admitted it to himself--he could not bear to be beholden to her when his ruin came. [11]
They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
It's the men who ruin all this for us, I believe, and prevent our enjoying it. [9]
She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
And after a while you will overwhelm us, and ruin us, and make us paupers. [9]
She knew now where the excommunicated man dwelt after whom Stephanus often asked, and she had gathered from the old man's lamentations and dark hints, that Paulus too had been ensnared and brought to ruin by her enemy. [10]
Even Jack Delancy, when the crushing news was brought him at the club, where he sat talking with Major Fairfax, although he saw his own ruin in a flash, said, "It wouldn't have happened if Henderson had lived. [4]
A year ago, when Italy saw utter ruin staring her in the face and her greenbacks hardly worth the paper they were printed on, her Parliament ventured upon a 'coup de main' that would have appalled the stoutest of her statesmen under less desperate circumstances. [5]
The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. [5]
His previous testimony went rag by rag to ruin under her ingenious hands, until at last he stood bare, so to speak, he that had come so richly clothed in fraud and falsehood. [5]
Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt. [5]
I see a way to ruin them both before; I will attend to that first. [5]
He thought she was anxious, as on a former occasion, lest his election to the office of Eletto might prove his ruin, so he drew her towards him, exclaiming "Have no fear, Bonita. [10]
One of them was a lad of nineteen or twenty, and he was a good deal of a ruin, as to clothes, and morals, and general aspect. [5]
If ever there was a gentle spirit that thought itself unfired gunpowder and latent ruin, it is Conrad Wiegand. [5]
The rich shall warrant the poor against planless production and the ruin that now follows, against danger from without and famine from within, and the poor--" "No, no, no! [8]
The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. [2]
Why do you want to ruin my life? [9]
The fall of virtue, the ruin of innocence, would be vividly brought home. [11]
None save a very few conspirators knew how great a part it played in the plan to break the government of Ireland and to ruin England's position in the land. [11]
This ride gave us completely the wide and ghastly desolation of the mountain, the ruin that the lava has wrought upon slopes that were once green with vine and olive, and busy with the hum of life. [4]
He was unkempt, uncombed, and clad in the same old ruin of rags that had made him picturesque in the days when he was free and happy. [5]
The tables had turned since leaving the island, and the senator held it in his power to ruin our one remaining chance of escape. [9]
A show of trust in him was the only thing, for he had enough knowledge of our secret to ruin us, if he chose. [11]
After all the trouble, we could be certain of only one thing--the square-topped hill was the Acropolis, and the grand ruin that crowned it was the Parthenon, whose picture we knew in infancy in the school books. [5]
A time of trembling, of doubt, of awful uneasiness followed, for non-success meant absolute ruin and nothing short of it. [5]
I am a tottering ruin and my eyes are dim, but I recognized it. [5]
But they went to wreck and ruin under us and brought us to shame before all the passengers. [5]
They've brought us to utter ruin! [2]
But the addition to the armies of Germany, France, Styria, and Hungary of John Smith, "this English gentleman," as he styles himself, put a new face on the war, and proved the ruin of the Turkish cause. [4]
Justinus had hoped to take him home jubilant to Martina, and he had only this ruin to show her, doomed to the grave. [10]
Was it reasonable to suppose that society should notice that one woman's heart was full of foreboding, heavy with a sense of loss and defeat, and with the ruin of two lives? [4]
I don't want to see him ruin her career. [9]
Do you want to ruin all the furniture on the place? [5]
She realised that to offend the Queen at this moment might ruin all; and Elizabeth herself was little like to offer chance for farewell and love- tokens. [11]
She had wished to kill him--would she remain desperate enough to ruin him? [9]
Nature knows how to garnish a ruin to get the best effect. [5]
Was she face to face with ruin already, she who, two minutes ago, was as safe and happy as a young bird in its nest? [11]
All he has to do is to say a word to his secretary, and he can make men or ruin them. [9]
He left it to betray others into further mockery, to bring them to ruin. [10]
But it seemed to be a forlorn place; those who had studied it most agreed in considering it a "cold, crude, silent, and desolate" ruin of nature, without the possibility, if life were on it, of articulate speech, of music, even of sound. [6]
Ever since that time the Rose of Sharon had taken the attitude of having washed her hands of responsibility for a course which must inevitably lead to ruin. [9]
Remember, that at thy death, which may the gods long avert, I shall represent the existence of this glorious land as thou dost now; my fall will be the ruin of thine house, of Egypt! [10]
When, as he thought, he had saved himself from complete ruin, he wanted to keep and gloat over the trophy of victory, and his trophy was the eight thousand dollars got from the Barbille farm. [11]
Whether he ever thought that if he could save her from ruin, he could give her up himself, is doubtful. [5]
It cannot be thought of; it is mere ruin! [4]
Or perhaps you think it easier to ruin the life of a woman than to measure your strength against her defender? [10]
It is well they are not cows--it would soak in and ruin the milk. [5]
My daughter, let these tears sink deep into thy soul, and no longer persist in that which may be your destruction and ruin. [5]
In five minutes there was silence, and the gory chief and I sat alone and surveyed the sanguinary ruin that strewed the floor around us. [5]
It would ruin thee, and yet help but little in my cause. [5]
That is just the way in this world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. [5]
We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow. [2]
So I imagine the vengeance, the curse which calls down ruin upon the head of a foe. [10]
The people of the South have too much of good sense and good temper to attempt the ruin of the government rather than see it administered as it was administered by the men who made it. [7]
The president of the senate had listened with a penitent mien and bowed head, but now he recovered his presence of mind and exclaimed indignantly: "The people die, the town and country are going to ruin, plague and horrors rise up from the river. [10]
His gloves were the saddest ruin, but he told me where I could get some like them. [5]
She will be the ruin even of the peaceful days I hoped to enjoy during the short remainder of my life! [10]
Evening came, and the richest, most flourishing commercial capital in the world was here a heap of ashes, there a ruin, everywhere a plundered treasury. [10]
The second of the ravishing voices I have heard was, as I have said, that of another German woman.--I suppose I shall ruin myself by saying that such a voice could not have come from any Americanized human being. [6]
As a rule, the rains had beaten down parts of some of the houses, and this gave the village the aspect of a mouldering and hoary ruin. [5]
Another stranger, by the name of Thompson, left me a mere wreck and ruin of chaotic rags. [5]
At eight in the morning we reached the remnant and ruin of what had been the important military station of "Camp Floyd," some forty-five or fifty miles from Salt Lake City. [5]
She was only the lover of honest things, the friend, the good ally, obliged to flee a cause for its terrible unsoundness, yet trying to prevent wreck and ruin. [11]
Indeed, the ruin, the lonely wandering which had been Jean Jacques' portion, had given him that dignity which often comes to those who defy destiny and the blows of angry fate. [11]
Real, genuine glory, the fairest of wives, and a proud crown--or defeat and ruin. [10]
Everywhere the will, the desire, the passion for bringing grief and ruin on others rather than to help them, raise them and heal them! [10]
An elephant on the desert, fronting the Atlantic Ocean, had, after all, a picturesque aspect, and all the more so because he was a deserted ruin. [4]
As a result, the city government not only stood still, with its hands tied, but everything it was created to protect and care for went a steady gait toward rack and ruin. [5]
You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! [5]
He can see the broad green Campagna, stretching away toward the mountains, with its scattered arches and broken aqueducts of the olden time, so picturesque in their gray ruin, and so daintily festooned with vines. [5]
Do you know that you will ruin your father in another year and you continue? [9]
Have you reflected that you are about to ruin your careers? [9]
Then I perceived that there was but small hope; with a heavy heart, and, indeed, a secret intent behind, I took the task upon me, for I saw plainly that my refusal would ruin all. [10]
She was convinced that the unfortunate king had been forced into something which would bring ruin both to him and his subjects. [10]
It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all. [2]
Well, I fear that invisible hand will turn its hidden work to your ruin. [13]
He would make that foxy old courtier feel that the responsibility for all the calamities that would follow the abandonment of the city and the ruin of Russia (as Rostopchin regarded it) would fall upon his doting old head. [2]
I speak of that assumed primary right of a State to rule all which is less than itself, and to ruin all which is larger than itself. [7]
It is my task to see that the money they are to inherit doesn't ruin them. [9]
Smith proposed to surprise Powhatan, and seize his store of corn, but he says he was hindered in this project by Captain Winne and Mr. Scrivener (who had heretofore been considered one of Smith's friends), whom he now suspected of plotting his ruin in England. [4]
When I had sufficiently recovered from that loss, I became involved in ruin. [4]
I foresaw a strife, a complication of intrigues, and internal enmities which would be (as they were) the ruin of New France. [11]
It is exceedingly strange that these tremendous events all happened in grottoes--and exceedingly fortunate, likewise, because the strongest houses must crumble to ruin in time, but a grotto in the living rock will last forever. [5]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
Both save ruin staring them in the face. [5]

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