Then it attacks the asp, and fights well with him, so that, taking its time it catches him in the throat and destroys him.
Every evil leaves behind a grief in our memory, except the supreme evil, that is death, which destroys this memory together with life.
Another detachment moves to the South Anna, along the Richmond and Gordonsville turnpike, and destroys the bridge called the Ground-Squirrel bridge, over that stream.
It has been used figuratively; it has had its signification extended; it has had its very terms altered; and we find it at last changed so as to assert that time destroys falsehood, but brings truth to light.
It is a common maxim that time destroys falsehood, and leaves truth intact.
No maxim has thus been more perverted than the one I have cited, that time destroys falsehood, but leaves truth intact.
The spirit of wrath that destroys the temple into her hand he entrusted.
The spirit of wrath that destroysthe city into her hand he entrusted.
Jonesy, suppose now you ride back to the fork of that split draw south of Saddle Hill, where we saw this man's fire, and see that nobody destroys the evidence before we get there.
A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants.
An agent thatdestroys offensive smells; a deodorizer.
The public hasn't any memory, or, if it has, this whirligig process destroys it.
There is really no objection to this--the terror of the surplus is a sort of nightmare in the country--except that it destroys the simplicity of the festival, and belittles small offerings that have their chief value in affection.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and re-creates.
The revolt from authority, the assertion of the right of private judgment, has been pushed forward into a socialism which destroys individual liberty of action, or to a state of anarchy in which the weak would have no protection.
Nothing more quickly destroys the character of a journal, begets distrust of it, and so reduces its value, than the well-founded suspicion that its editorial columns are the property of advertisers.
Their education [that of college men] destroys natural perception and judgment; so that cultivated people are one-sided, and their judgment is often inferior to that of the working people.
I intend in the course of this vacation to search for the cave; and, if I find it, my readers shall know the truth about it, if it destroys the only bit of romance connected with these mountains.
The analytic method in fiction is interesting, when used by a master of dissection, but it has this fatal defect in a novel--it destroys illusion.
In the rounded, exquisite lines of her figure there was the promise of that ineffable fullness and delicacy of womanhood which all the world raves about and destroys and mourns.
Fire must represent truth because itdestroys all sophistry and lies, and the mask is for sophistry and lies, which conceal truth.
But sometimes, the over-tasked mind leads to mischief which Nature cannot rectify; an attack of water on the brain destroys the child, or if not it sinks under almost any accidental disease.
Sidenote: 1307] Douglas destroys his Castle] The letter spak on this maner.
Here the King burns all Buchan, and gets the Castle of Forfar and destroys it.
Most persons to whom I have shown the drawing, and who feel its general character, regret that there is any living thing in it; they say it destroys the majesty of its desolation.
The Krodhavasha's hand destroys the fruits Of sacrifice, if dogs defile the fire.
Dressmakers agree that the coming of a child destroys symmetry and prevents fashionable tight-lacing.
By throwing a littleness on all things, it even destroys the very aliment it feeds on; nothing, at last, is worth the mocking.
The breaking up of this illusion by the intervention of mere dialogue, is absolutely painful; there is a sudden sinking from the ideal to the real, which shocks the sense, and at once destroys the fabric of the imagination.
Indulging in Ease, the City Destroys the Future In a corner of northern Africa, out on the desolate sands, there was a small stand of trees, barely keeping itself alive.
It is "peace" that destroys the Land and leads humanity to ruin.
Moist heat is a much more efficacious germicide than dry heat, for it destroys the organisms at a much lower temperature.
Inflammatory gangrene, or as it is more properly called gangrenous cellulitis, is a rapidly spreading infective process which destroys tissue as it advances.
Sunlight+ has a marked retarding effect on some bacteria and actually destroys them.
It probably destroys the albuminous element upon which the bacteria live, and starves the fungi.
Learn then, that there is no happiness here below, unless virtue regulates the heart and the understanding, which destroys all the force of his author's conclusion.
The maimed and distorted language obscures the sense, destroys or debases the poetry, and lessens the general impression of his genius.
Laziness, languid as it is, often gets the mastery of them all, usurps over all the designs and actions of life, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
Fire and water are two equally stern elements, although one accomplishes by heat what the other does by cold:--destroys and vivifies like every power.
A very able Chymist goes so far as to say, that Tartar ought not to boil above six or seven minutes with prepared Antimony; because longer boiling destroys part of its Emetic quality.
It is a powerful escharotic; it destroys proud flesh, and cleans old ulcers: but it must be used by those only who know how to apply it properly, and requires an able hand to manage it.
Tin unites easily with all the metals; but it destroys the ductility and malleability of every one of them, Lead excepted.
It whitens them by its union, and destroystheir malleability.
It has been found also that just as a high temperature destroys the germs, so a low temperature has the same effect.
It impairs and destroys the corpuscles, thus affecting their powers of transporting oxygen and carbonic acid gas.
When the poison gets into the system, it affects the most vital organs; it undermines that strength and destroys that beauty which ornament true manhood and which assure an individual of success.
It weakens anddestroys the usefulness of this organ of digestion.
It destroys some of the small glands and impairs others.
In no instance permit them to steep in the warm water, as this toughens them, and in some instances destroys both color and flavor.
Most vegetables should be put into fresh, rapidly-boiling water, and if cooked in uncovered vessels, they will retain a better color, as high heat destroys their color.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "destroys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
