“Had it not been for the diabolical seductiveness of that picture.” reported the Topeka Commonwealth, “they said they would never have come to Kansas to be ruinated and undone by grasshoppers.” ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)
What town of any antiquity or note hath not been once, again and again, by the fury of this merciless element, defaced, ruinated, and left desolate? ❋ Unknown (2007)
He would give away the shirt off his back, and the teeth out of his head; nay, as for that matter; he would have ruinated the family with his ridiculous charities, if it had not been for my four quarters — What between his willfullness and his waste, his trumps, and his frenzy, I lead the life of an indented slave. ❋ Unknown (2004)
From Babylon I came by land to Mosul, which standeth nere to Niniue, which is all ruinated and destroyed: it standeth fast by the riuer of Tigris. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The towne it selfe is so ruinated that I take it rather to be a heape of stones then a towne. ❋ Unknown (2003)
North: it is walled about, with a castle nigh to the sea, and one toward the land which is ruinated, but the walle thereof standeth. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The castle and all the houses in the Towne, saue foure, were won, burnt, and ruinated by the Erle of Desmond. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And since that time it hath bene ruinated and ouerthrowen by ❋ Unknown (2003)
Salina is a ruinated citie, and was destroyed by the Turke ten yeeres past: there are in it now but seuenteene persons, women and children. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Arabia from the towne about seuen or eight miles, which tower is ruinated on all sides, and with the fall thereof hath made as it were a litle mountaine, so that it hath no shape at all: it was made of brickes dried in the sonne, and certain canes and leaues of the palme tree layed betwixt the brickes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Alexandria the most ancient citie in Africa situated by the seaside containeth seuen miles in circuite, and is enuironed with two walles one neere to the other with high towers, but the walles within be farre higher than those without, with a great ditch round about the same: yet is not this Citie very strong by reason of the great antiquitie, being almost halfe destroyed and ruinated. ❋ Unknown (2003)
True it is, that this part vnderneath remaineth at this day inhabitable, because of the corrupt aire, as also for that by time, which consumeth all things, it is greately ruinated. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The 12. of August in the morning wee went on land to Limisso: this towne is ruinated and nothing in it worth writing, saue onely in the midst of the towne there hath bene a fortresse, which is now decayed, and the wals part ouerthrowen, which a Turkish Rouer with certaine gallies did destroy about 10. or 12. yeeres past. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Den Massa Miles, he call mah gran'pappy in an 'say,' Bob, yo'all is free an 'I'se a ruinated man. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)
Are they not all defaced? are they not all ruinated? are they not all conuerted to powder and dust? ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Why, if my customers were to hear you, the character of my house might be ruinated. ❋ John Turvill Adams (N/A)
But, poor young gentleman, he has been quite ruinated by these cheating chaps as has got hold of him. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
In which meane while on an other side I heard a mournefull noise and humane groaning, as proceeding from a sicke body euen vnto death: whereat I stoode still at the first, my haires standing right vp, but presently without further stay, I addressed my steppes towards the place from whence I heard this wofull noyse and dolefull lament, forcing my selfe vp vppon a heape of ruinated, broken and downe-fallen marbles. ❋ Francesco Colonna (N/A)
It has been often ruinated, and as often re-edified. ❋ George S. Phillips (N/A)
As, in 1391, the chancel had to be rebuilt being "ruinated and decayed" we may conclude that it was probably older than the present north porch which is certainly not later than 1259. ❋ Frederick W. Woodhouse (N/A)
