Use ruins in a sentence
Sentences starting with ruins
- Ruins on all sides!--Who has so cruelly mutilated that fine church? [10]
Sentences ending with ruins
- A shot from your pistol brought him down as he rushed forward to enter the ruins. [11]
- It was level with the ground, a crumpled heap of ruins. [11]
- The courtyard where we learned to manage a steed and use our weapons, the hall where we listened to the wandering minstrels, in ruins! [10]
- All her life was in ruins. [4]
- You stand a tower among the ruins. [11]
- We journey thither tomorrow to see the celebrated ruins. [5]
- You must look to this, and see that her heart does not grow heavy among these solemn ruins. [12]
- As he drove through the streets past the houses that had been burned down, he was surprised by the beauty of those ruins. [2]
- The--the men say the Pass is full of old houses and ruins. [13]
- One side or the other will fight until their blood is all let, and until their homes are all ruins. [9]
Short sentences using ruins
- Hodder surveyed the ruins. [9]
- Mr. Stoker under its ruins. [6]
Sentences containing ruins two or more times
- Somehow it was impressive, after so much browsing among massive and battered and decaying fanes that rest upon ruins, and those ruins upon still other ruins, and those upon still others again. [5]
More example sentences with the word ruins in them
- Darius left a worthy monument of his greatness in the glorious palace which he built on Mount Rachmed, the ruins of which are the wonder and admiration of travellers to this day. [10]
- I still remember with pleasure Steuerwald's beautiful winter landscapes, into which he so cleverly introduced the mediaeval ruins of the Hartz region. [10]
- The first story, which is still standing, in the midst of a heap of ruins, is 260 feet high. [10]
- No sooner have we set forward over the brow of a hill than it grows lighter on the sea horizon in the southwest, the ruins on the peak become visible, Capri is in full sunlight. [4]
- After a while we came to a shapeless mass of ruins, which still bears the name of Bethel. [5]
- Yes, there it was, half covered by the ruins, but its head was erect in the midst of fire and disaster. [11]
- While the prophet was absorbed in these reflections a pair of ravens fluttered around his head and, croaking loudly, alighted on the dusty ruins of one of the shattered houses. [10]
- Shortly we came upon an ancient stone aqueduct, built upon arches, and from that time forth we had ruins all about us--we were approaching our journey's end. [5]
- Suddenly we came upon a house with a great round hole in its wall, and then upon several in ruins beside the village street. [9]
- Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
- In the foreground, toward the left, rose the wooded height crowned by the stately ruins of the Blankenburg. [10]
- He saw that to admit her contentions would be to behold crumble into ruins the structure that he had spent a life in rearing; and yet something within him responded to her words--they had the passionate, convincing ring of truth. [9]
- The ruins of these might-have-beens, how pathetic! [5]
- There is nothing there but an assemblage of shabby booths and fruit-stands, and an ancient stone tower in ruins and overgrown with ivy. [4]
- We must leave them amongst the sunny ruins of Italy and Greece and southern France, on a marvellous journey that was personally conducted by Victoria. [9]
- Also fearing for the worst, we telegraphed for a large number of seats in the diligence for Damascus, and horses for the ruins of Baalbec. [5]
- Andreas had watched the scene; a surge of fury had brought the blood to his face, and, stirred by great and genuine emotion, he broke out: "There--there you see the locusts which destroy my garden--the hail which ruins my crops! [10]
- Pierre gazed at the ruins and did not recognize districts he had known well. [2]
- The ruins of the old bath were there yet in the basement of the monastery, not a stone missing. [5]
- On the left the ground was more level; there were fields of grain, and the smoking ruins of Semenovsk, which had been burned down, could be seen. [2]
- It lies on the ground among the ruins of ancient Memphis. [10]
- Before us, in the flooding moonlight, rose the noblest ruins we had ever looked upon--the Propylae; a small Temple of Minerva; the Temple of Hercules, and the grand Parthenon. [5]
- By this time the fire was making fierce headway, and several persons who were imprisoned under the ruins were begging piteously for help. [5]
- I dreamed of the fall of the Caesars, and of a great Greek Empire risen from the ruins, powerful and brilliant under the special protection of the gods of Olympus; and each one of us must labor to bring about the realization of this dream. [10]
- Is it possible that we can have too many ruins? [4]
- The fine new temples and palaces of the second act are by-and-by a wreck of crumbled walls and prostrate columns, mouldy, grass-grown, and desolate; but their former selves are still recognisable in their ruins. [5]
- Persian milestones are still to be found among the ruins of the old king's road, which led from Nineveh to Ecbatana. [10]
- Once more I sought the ramparts, only to be reminded by those crumbling, machicolated ruins that I was in a war-ridden land. [9]
- In each act someone's edifice of hope, or of ambition, or of happiness, goes down in ruins. [5]
- A. Hail, ye solitary ruins of antiquity, ye sacred tombs and silent walks! [5]
- He crawled along so hidden that he could not use his eyes except to aid himself in the toilsome progress through the brakes and ruins of cliff-wall. [13]
- But as it shone upon the ruins of the mill, when Jean Jacques went out into the working world again, it made so gaunt and hideous a picture that, in spite of himself, a cry of misery came from his lips. [11]
- And yet it seems but yesterday since we had good hours in Virginia together, or met among the ruins of Quebec. [11]
- We predict a Saragossa defense, and that if Charleston is taken it will be only a heap of ruins. [7]
- And even the ruins of this giant city, writes Lavard, are such as to allow a very fair conclusion of its enormous size. [10]
- The Church had risen on the ruins of the Temple, and monks had forced the sacrificing priests into the background. [10]
- Here, in this remote paradise now in ruins, people had dwelt and loved. [9]
- And so they ran together that the knight brake his spear on Marhaus, and Sir Marhaus smote him so hard that he brake his neck and the horse's back--" "Well, that is just the trouble about this state of things, it ruins so many horses. [5]
- But when La Pompadour and I come to our final reckoning, when it is a question who can topple ruins round the King quickest, his mistress or his 'cousin,' there will be tales to tell. [11]
- She took great pleasure in the "quiet drives to old ruins and old halls, situated among older hills and woods; the dialogues by the old fireside in the antique oak-panneled drawing-room, while they suited him, did not too much oppress and exhaust me. [14]
- While the market place in Tennis was filling, Archias's white house had become a heap of smouldering ruins. [10]
- In a great pit lay the mate of the largest stone in the ruins. [5]
- Still he walked on unharmed, past the ashes and the ruins. [9]
- His eyes fastened on the burnished head of the Cock among the ruins. [11]
- But she was of those who do not know what they are, or what they think and feel, till some explosion forces open the doors of their souls and they look upon a new life over a heap of ruins. [11]
- The massive arches of some of these ruins rest upon piers that are fifteen feet square and built entirely of solid blocks of marble, some of which are as large as a Saratoga trunk, and some the size of a boarding-house sofa. [5]
- With a party of Englishmen he had gone up into the interior of a Central American country to visit some famous ruins. [9]
- Even grey-bearded men of dignified bearing, and wives and mothers whose looks augured gentle hearts thrust back the few hapless foes who had succeeded in reaching the land on the ruins of the war-chariots or baggage-wagons. [10]
- At the end of an hour, we had made the four miles, and landed on a level point of land, upon which was a wide extent of old ruins, with many a tall cocoanut tree growing among them. [5]
- But the monarch of all European ruins, the Coliseum, maintains that reserve and that royal seclusion which is proper to majesty. [5]
- And that was not so very long ago, for Thebes, in the splendid streets of which Homer wandered and sang to the kings when Memphis, whose ruins are older than history, was its younger rival, was twelve centuries old when Paris ran away with Helen. [4]
- There's an old monastery of the days of the Spaniards up there"--he pointed or the ruins of one, and it is a pleasant place to rest. [11]
- The Earl of Meldritch, having occupied the town, repaired the walls and the ruins of this famous city that had been in the possession of the Turks for some threescore years. [4]
- You had better make a study of ancient and modern art, and not have everything to learn while you are going about among ruins, and churches, and galleries. [6]
- But it must make a difference what the imagination has to work upon, and I do not at all wonder that Mr. Ruskin would not wish to live in a land where there are no old ruins of castles and monasteries. [6]
- Once more Michel made a journey-alone--to the Ecrehos, and there, under the ruins of the old Abbey of Val Richer, he buried the twain he had loved. [11]
- Their closed house looks to me as though ruined and burnt-out, and we have already seen the nettles spring up which grow everywhere among the ruins of human dwellings. [10]
- Do you not know that a vow may be a thing that ruins past redemption? [11]
- Dyck did not know how many Maroons there might be in the ruins, or near it, and he did not attack. [11]
- The Trifels people, in their day, five hundred years ago, could go and muse over majestic ruins that have vanished, now, to the last stone. [5]
- The clasp found in the ruins of the white house appeared to furnish this, and the notary had put all other business aside and gone to Alexandria to settle the matter. [10]
- The people living in its neighborhood now call the ruins Birs Nimrod, the castle of Nimrod. [10]
- A world of ideas had crumbled into fragments before and within her, and from their ruins a new one suddenly sprang up in her strong soul. [10]
- But a few hours ago he had led his troops through the ruins around which the ravens were circling and past his father's devastated home. [10]
- The fences of his hired domain always fell into ruins under him, perhaps because he sat on them so much, and the hovels he occupied rotted down during his placid residence in them. [4]
- At noon, we hired a Kanaka to take us down to the ancient ruins at Honaunan in his canoe--price two dollars--reasonable enough, for a sea voyage of eight miles, counting both ways. [5]
- If you knew him as well as I do, you would rejoice with me, and would tell me I was right to believe that the Nile may dry up and the Pyramids crumble into ruins, before my Bartja can ever deceive me! [10]
- Following its course, he soon entered the oak forest again, and passed through to find himself before massed and jumbled ruins of cliff wall. [13]
- Without meeting anyone he came near the ruins. [11]
- The incorrigible pilgrims have come in with their pockets full of specimens broken from the ruins. [5]
- He is rather handsome, as bugs go, but utterly dastardly, in that he gnaws the stem of the plant close to the ground, and ruins it without any apparent advantage to himself. [4]
- The contractor's workmen had arrived in the early afternoon, he had seen the first ton of debris removed from the ruins of the historic mill, and it was crowned by the gold Cock of Beaugard, all grimy with the fire, but jaunty as of yore. [11]
- Sunrise over the Greek Temple of Philae and the splendid ruins of a farther time towering beside it! [11]
- In the pretty garden, which is a constant surprise of odd nooks and sunny hiding-places, with ruins, and most luxuriant ivy, is a little cottage where, I am told in confidence, the young king of Bavaria slept three nights not very long ago. [4]
- He gives at full length a theatrical program seventeen or eighteen hundred years old, which he professes to have found in the ruins of the Coliseum, among the dirt and mold and rubbish. [5]
- Over the way from us, and higher up the valley, we can discern, through the glasses, the faint outlines of the wonderful ruins of Baalbec, the supposed Baal-Gad of Scripture. [5]
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. [5]
- It had been found beneath the ruins on a human arm, and Zminis had only learned from the chamberlain, to whom he had shown it, that it had belonged to the daughter of Heron. [10]
- Pretty hills and forests and temporary summer structures cannot have the poetic or the substantial interest of the ancient villages and towns clinging to the hills, the old stone houses, the vines, the ruins, the atmosphere of a long civilization. [4]
- They built not for an age, but for all time, and the New Zealander will have to wait a long while before he will find in any one of the older bridges that broken arch from which he is to survey the ruins of London. [6]
- We study the finest architecture in its ruins. [4]
- One will hardly find another such example among all the ruins of antiquity. [6]
- Dark, lonely cedar-trees, few and far between, stood out strikingly, and at long distances ruins of red rocks. [13]
- But now he felt that the universe had crumbled before his eyes and only meaningless ruins remained, and this not by any fault of his own. [2]
- It makes me feel as old as these dreary hills to look down upon these moss-hung ruins, this historic desolation. [5]
- The lodgings we engaged were among the most "romantic" I have ever occupied, for our landlord's house was built in the ruins of the monastery just beside the old refectory. [10]
- Even at this early period Humphrey Crewe's thirst for knowledge was insatiable: he cared little, the biography tells us, for galleries and churches and ruins, but his comments upon foreign methods of doing business were astonishingly precocious. [9]
- It did not disappear when at last, after midnight, everyone had gone, and the smouldering ruins of his greatest asset lay mournful in the wan light of the moon. [11]
- The Pont Neuf did not seem to me altered, though we had read in the papers that it was in ruins or seriously injured in consequence of a great flood. [6]
- A big hotel crowds the ruins a little, now, and drives a brisk trade with summer tourists. [5]
- Irving passed a couple of months in Sicily, exploring with some thoroughness the ruins, and making several perilous inland trips, for the country was infested by banditti. [4]
- I can not conceive of such a thing as Genoa in ruins. [5]
- These cone-shaped hills can be seen to this day, standing near the ruins of Sardis, not far from the lake of Gygaea. [10]
- One day, when camped near the ruins of Jericho, he burst forth with something like this: "Jack, do you see that range of mountains over yonder that bounds the Jordan valley? [5]
- Halfway down we came out upon a cleared place, a farm, with fruit-trees and a house in ruins. [4]
- And this late calamity, however rude and devastating, soon began to look more wonderful in its salvages than in its ruins, so that I can hardly feel any right to this munificent endowment with which you, and my other friends through you, have astonished me. [6]
- There have always been ruins, no doubt; and there have always been pensive people to sigh over them, and asses to scratch upon them their names and the important date of their visit. [5]
- A relief has been found in the ruins of Persepolis, on which the king is strangling a lion with his right arm, but this is supposed to have a historical, not a symbolical meaning. [10]
- Near by could be seen the familiar ruins of a half-burned mansion occupied by the French, with lilac bushes still showing dark green beside the fence. [2]
- How many houses are now empty and in ruins where formerly only heavy coin could secure admittance! [10]
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