A man must be a public enemy to wish to ruin a whole community!
Left thus to my own resources, I lit a cigar and walked out in front of the house, where I soon espied my lady; and when I joined her she proposed to walk as far as the ruin to see the sun set.
A good gentleman, but he took no interest in farming; the whole place must have gone to wrack and ruin if the General had not agreed to sell it before it was too late.
In spite of myself I could not help thinking of the utter ruin this once opulent house had fallen into, and of the unhappy son banished from his father's table.
You are insulting a man who is generosity itself, who has power to ruin us all, and yet who seeks to save us if you will simply take the hand he holds out to you.
To say the truth, we are in a most miserable condition, and, if anything COULD ruin this country, democracy would have ruined it just thirty-five years ago.
You would hate me, andruin me for life if you could?
You did your best to ruin me, soul and body, because you hated Richard Gilbert.
I dared only speak, but I dare not; it would ruin all.
All that man can do to ruin a woman, body and soul, he had done--why should she lift a finger to save him now?
At the same spot he jumped out of the carriage, and by the same path along which he had hastened to stop the bell-ringers, lest they should ruin themselves with Sir Robert, he now hastened to see and thank these honest, courageous people.
But even to exculpate herself, Olivia will not ruin in your opinion her husband, of whom you imagine that she has no reason to complain.
Tis a pity he cannot always dance, for then he would not ruinhimself at play.
How will you preserve your daughter from that desire of universal admiration, which will ruin all your work?
Even if the bees retained their wonted industry in gathering stores, and their usual energy in defending themselves against all their enemies, their ruin could only be delayed for a short time.
When the bees commence their work in the Spring, they give, as previously stated, reliable evidence either that all is well, or that ruinlurks within.
Bees are exceedingly prone to rob each other, and unless suitable precautions are used to prevent it, the Apiarian will often have cause to mourn over the ruin of some of his most promising stocks.
If fed in the ordinary way, and yet not supplied with combs and bees, their ruin will often be only accelerated.
That the queen of a hive is often lost, and that the ruin of the whole colony soon follows, unless such a loss is seasonably remedied, are facts which ought to be well known to every observing bee-keeper.
The ignorant or careless bee-keeper is informed of the ravages which are going on in such a hive, only when its ruin is fully completed, and a cloud of winged pests issues from it, to destroy if they can, the rest of his stocks.
She'll waste his time, and she'll marry him, and ruin his work for ever.
You know I should ruin your life, and you'd ruin mine, as things are now.
Reggie did his best to make statements pleasing to Riley, but the Accountant was sure that the Bank was going to rack and ruin without him.
A woman will forgive the man who has ruined her life's work so long as he gives her love; a man may forgive those who ruin the love of his life, but he will never forgive the destruction of his work.
If the Bisara be not stolen, but given or bought or found, it turns against its owner in three years, and leads to ruin or death.
Next morning I came upon Muhammad Din crying softly to himself over the ruin I had wrought.
It was a powerful argument against them that their size and influence were such that they could and did ruin or enrich individual customers, and that they could make or destroy whole regions of the West.
In these struggles the fight ``each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Ambitious young men will have to dream other daydreams than that of business success and wealth wrung out of the ruin of competitors and the degradation of labor.
China was brought to the verge of ruin by opium, and every patriotic Chinaman desired to see the traffic in opium restricted.
That the same Dudaim had also been the woodpecker who afterwards 'ticed my daughter and old Paasch to the spot with his cries, in order to ruin her.
How Satan, by the permission of the most righteous God, sought altogether to ruin us, and how we lost all hope.
Item, promised by his honour to seek out and burn all the witches in the land, that so the kingdom of God might be built up, and the kingdom of the prince of this world sink to ruin and utter destruction.
I presently mounted my bicycle again and rode forward on my last stage, and having crossed Twizel Bridge, turned down the lane to the old ruin close by where Till runs into Tweed.
For all those poems which 1633 contains, that edition was accepted as the basis; for other poems, the first edition, whichever that might be.
The poem was included in 1633 as the sixth in a group of Elegies, the rest of which are love poems.
Whether Donne's 'hydroptic immoderate thirst of humane learning and languages' extended to Persian I do not know.
The reading of the 1633 edition, which is that of the best manuscripts, has more of Donne's characteristic hyperbole than the metrically more regular 'Vertue in woman see'.
Enjoy your summer all; This is Grosart's punctuation.
How often hath my pen (mine heart's Solicitor) Instructed thee in Breviat of my case!
We get it again in Lovelace's If to be absent were to be Away from thee.
And he to me, "O foolish creatures, how great is this ignorance that falls upon ye!
It is through this medium that human souls must operate to obtain knowledge of each other.
The authenticity of the poems added in 1635 will be fully discussed later.
Donne writes: though such a life wee have As but so many mandrakes on his grave.
The detached state of this regiment is enough to ruin it.
The Dog and the Sparrow") the sparrow employs the same trick to bring ruin and death on a heartless wagoner who has cruelly run over the dog.
One young girl who had been seduced, on an appropriate occasion and after great consideration, persuaded seven of the disciples who had been engaged in her ruin to enter her house.
Nothing that we have yet seen in Palestine, no vision of wide-spread landscape, no sight of ancient ruin or famous building or treasured relic, comes as close to our hearts as this little garden sleeping in the sun.
The castle that crowns the eminence in the centre is a ruin of unknown date.
We climb to the top of the peaked hill, a thousand feet above the town, and explore the great Crusaders' Castle of Subeibeh, a ruin vaster in extent and nobler in situation than the famous Schloss of Heidelberg.
The nerve of the French seemed to fail; the huge battalion faltered, shrank in upon itself, and tumbled in ruin down the hill!
Soult, though eagerly watching the conflict, could not see the ruin into which the British had fallen, and hesitated to launch his reserves into the fight.
No; for plainly the idler is a fool who "eateth his own flesh"; that is, necessarily brings ruin upon himself.
Ney's report of his own overthrow at Dennewitz sounded like an omen of the ruin of Waterloo.
In Prussia the party of Stein determined upon a renewal of the war, and decided to risk the extinction of the Prussian State rather than submit to the extortions by which Napoleon was completing the ruin of their country.
The sudden ruinof his hopes left him without a plan.
The unfortunate Prussian State, reduced to half its former extent, devastated and impoverished by war, and burdened with the support of a French army, found in the crisis of its ruin the beginning of a worthier national life.
This rule enabled the tax-gatherer, whether a Mohammedan or a Christian, to inflict ruin upon those who did not bribe himself or his masters; for by merely postponing his visit he could destroy the value of the harvest.
On reaching Halle, Schill learnt of the overthrow of the Archduke and of Dörnberg's ruin in Westphalia.
The arrogance and licentiousness of the younger officers was such that their ruin on the field of Jena caused positive joy to a great part of the middle classes of Prussia.
With Quiroga lying inactive in the peninsula of Leon and Riego hunted from village to village, it seemed as if the insurrection which they had begun could only end in the ruin of its leaders.
The brothers were always together, and never from first to last did Henri lose his temper, or openly lament that ruin was coming surely on them.
It took several years for the country to recover from the wreck and ruin wrought, to frame the machinery of our new government, and to lay the solid foundations of this grand edifice of constitutional liberty.
How angry Cornwallis was at theruin of his best army at Cowpens!
They plotted the utter ruin of the patriot cause, till, at the earliest streak of dawn, boom!
Everybody knows that at one time he made it the business of his life to ruin my father; and the way he alludes to me in that letter shows that his enmity still continues.
At the south-east corner is the ruin of a smaller tower, beneath which is a dungeon 15 feet deep, and at the south-western corner is another lofty tower.
The abbey is said to share with Melrose the distinction of being the most picturesque and beautiful ecclesiasticalruin in Great Britain.
It is the most celebrated ruin on the borders of Wales, and is well preserved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
