I have thought, considering how often I have procured judgments and destructions to myself, that God would be weary of pardoning, or else that he would pardon with grudging.
This doing of us good with rejoicing, this saving of us from deserved judgments with rejoicing, this getting the victory over our destructions for us, with rejoicing; O!
If then such calamities are inflicted of God as the punishments of the particular sins of nations, what destructions and desolations must we consider the universal punishment of the Flood to have wrought?
For we are not moved by all these terrible instances of his wrath nor by the perditions and destructions of the first men and the first nations.
Just as if there were not pestilences and destructions enough besides, which threatened us on every hand.
These ailments are characterized as destructions of the protective membranes which cover the serous layer of the organs, in which layer the lymph circulates.
The destructions wrought by dysaemia in these various forms, cannot be fully described in this brief abstract.
Expressed in myths, thesedestructions and restorations are the Epochs of Nature.
I say, I wonder that he doth not withdraw his protecting providences from them, and leave them to those dangers and destructions that by their sin they have deserved, and that by their bedlam madness they would rush themselves into.
It is a matter of gratitude that its amount is growing less every year, of course the destructions by earthquakes are more limited.
Or we can read from the cuneiform inscriptions of ancient Babylon, and find the four destructions of the race there specified, as by a flood, by wild beasts, by famine and by pestilence.
How the destructions of man have thrown palaces and doctrines open to the winds of heaven.
What if I had chosen to recount and enlarge on those evils, not which men have inflicted on each other, such as the devastations and destructions of war, but which happen in earthly things, from the elements of the world itself?
And we find this succession of great destructions of the Atlantic continent in the triads of Wales, where traditions are preserved of "three terrible catastrophes.
And I will tell you the reason of this: there have been, and there will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes.
The Tlascaltec historian, moreover, affirms that only two of these Ages are past, and that the third and fourthdestructions are yet to come.
Kingsborough himself seems to favor the idea of three past destructions and four ages in all; see Mex.
With regard to the number of thesedestructions it is hard to speak positively, as on no single point in the wide range of early American religion, does there exist so much difference of opinion.
In like manner arbitrary destructions and ravages of buildings and the like did not occur on the German side where they were not called forth by the behavior of the inhabitants themselves.
Special detachments in charge of the destructions made large rents in the masonry-work, before firing the mines, to ensure total destruction.
Péronne was totally destroyed, partly by the Franco-British artillery, but especially by the systematic destructions on the part of the Germans.
Here, as everywhere else, the destructions had been preceded by methodical pillaging.
These destructions were absolutely unjustifiable from a military point of view.
This battlefield is a striking example of the total destructions wrought by the late war.
Destructions does thy tongue devise; Like a sharpened razor, thou framer of deceit!
Destructions are in her midst: And from her open market-place depart not oppression and deceit.
So the singer betakes himself to his shelter till "destructions are gone by.
In tracing the causes of these disappearances, Dana points out that, perhaps, the principal cause was a decrease in the temperature of the ocean, since the destructions were limited in large measure to marine life.
Up to now these thoroughgoing destructionsof a worn-out civilisation have constituted the most obvious task of the masses.
At the present day we are very uneasy with regard to the threatening aspirations of the masses and the destructions and upheavals foreboded thereby.
The expectation of the end of the world is a natural complement to the belief in periodicaldestructions of our globe.
While most authorities agree as to the character of the destructions which terminated the suns, they vary much as to their sequence.
One of the Aztec legends of the origin of man was, that after one of the destructions of the world the gods took counsel together how to renew the species.
Clavigero produces instances to show that upheavals, engulfings, and separations of land have been quite common, and thinks that American traditions of destructions refer to such disasters.
What do you think of ancient traditions about deluges and destructions of mankind, and the preservation of a remnant?
Incomparably small, on the other hand, is the aid which psychotherapy can offer in cases of real destructions in the brain, as in the case of tumors, hemorrhage, paresis or the degeneration by senility.
Every neurasthenic state may play havoc with mental life, while grave brain destructions may only shade slightly the character or the intellect.
Especially impossible is it for human sagacity, enlightened by experience, to predict unexampled desolations, destructions such as the world had never witnessed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "destructions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
