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Sentences ending with ruinous

The rent of the furnished house they had taken was such that if they failed their experiment would be little less than ruinous. [8]
General Halleck telegraphed him on this very subject yesterday, and I telegraph him now; but for us here to control him there on the ground would be a babel of confusion which would be utterly ruinous. [7]

More example sentences with the word ruinous in them

His fortunate star, which in the Capital had shone on him so brightly and benevolently, seemed to have proved faithless in this ruinous hole! [10]
They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs. [5]
In August he was at Smolensk and thought only of how to advance farther, though as we now see that advance was evidently ruinous to him. [2]
This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. [5]
We all have to practise patience; we live like people dwelling in a ruinous house with to-day a stone and to-morrow a beam threatening to fall upon our heads. [10]
Presently we came to a ruinous old town on a hill, the same being the ancient Jezreel. [5]
We didn't smell, there on the Jordan, the same as we do in Jerusalem; and we don't smell in Jerusalem just as we did in Nazareth, or Tiberias, or Cesarea Philippi, or any of those other ruinous ancient towns in Galilee. [5]
The habit of the English "general practitioner" of making his profit out of the pills and potions he administered was ruinous to professional advancement and the dignity of the physician. [6]
The monastery at the Deserto was suppressed by the French of the first republic, and has long been in a ruinous condition. [4]
It is a system not only ruinous while it lasts, but one that must soon fail and leave us destitute. [7]
After having made some ruinous bargains in fezes, Turkish cloths and perfume, I engaged a trap, and we started for Aden. [11]
First and last, Shelley emptied into that rapacious mendicant's lap a sum which cost him--for he borrowed it at ruinous rates--from eighty to one hundred thousand dollars. [5]
This would be ruinous, if true, and you should therefore, first of all, ascertain the real facts beyond all possibility of doubt. [7]
Such finery is out of place in this dismal ruinous city. [10]
Aside from the osteological discomfort of it--and that is no light matter this rainy weather--the present state of things is ruinous to property. [5]
There is only one thing which can rouse the machine; not will,--that cannot reach it; nothing but a ruinous agent, which hurries the wheels awhile and soon eats out the heart of the mechanism. [6]
That the effect of this has been ruinous in English practice I cannot doubt, and that in this country the standard of practice was in former generations lowered through the same agency is not unlikely. [3]
And you were never to reveal that he had made you the offer at such a ruinous price, for it was only out of friendship for you that he was willing to make the sacrifice. [5]
They saw that it caused a competition in expense ruinous to cavaliers of moderate fortune; and they feared that a softness and effeminacy might thus be introduced, incompatible with the stern nature of the war. [4]
It hurried up house rent, bills payable, and such things, in such a ruinous way that I could not abide it. [5]
Once the house had been spacious enough to shelter a numerous family and to store a great quantity of goods and provisions, but it was now long since the ruinous chambers had been occupied. [10]
It is the great subject of modern times, how to fertilize without ruinous expense; how, in short, not to starve the earth to death while we get our living out of it. [4]
He lifted his faded eyes to my face and said: "Ah, Mark, it was a ruinous investment that I made in those heartless rhymes. [5]
Despite all Kutuzov's efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days. [2]
He not merely did nothing of the kind, but on the contrary he used his power to select the most foolish and ruinous of all the courses open to him. [2]
It was getting crazy and ruinous now, from long neglect. [5]
I do not apprehend he will think it necessary to deviate from my views to any ruinous extent. [7]
In the middle and western part of the island the ruinous movements went on without being stayed; planters and people generally railed at the governor, and said that through his neglect these dark things were happening. [11]
We passed through a range of wild, picturesque hills, steep, wooded, cone-shaped, with rugged crags projecting here and there, and with dwellings and ruinous castles perched away up toward the drifting clouds. [5]
In his days a people shall come from the East and shall make of the Nile, that is of the Egyptians, dead bodies, and of their cities ruinous heaps; these are the urns for the dead, which thou sawest. [10]

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