A tall flower, keeping fairy guard beside three ruinous steps, moved not her slightest bell, but there came one note of a hidden thrush.
He laughed again, then sighed, and gathering up his reins, left the little eminence and trotted on through sun and shade to a vacant, ruinous lodge and a twilit avenue, silent and sad beneath the heavy interlacing of leafy boughs.
He brought from the ruinous steps her watchet mantle, and she let him clasp it about her throat.
But upon far more subjects than this Pope was habitually false in the quality of his thoughts, always insincere, never by any accident in earnest, and consequently many times caught in ruinous self-contradiction.
Latterly the girdles were fitted up with beautiful chains, by means of which they could be contracted or enlarged, and with gold buckles, and large bosses and clasps that gradually became the basis for a ruinous display of expenditure.
With ruinous churches, want of labourers for the vineyard, and want of means to pay them, Sidney had no difficulty in believing that the very sacrament of baptism had fallen into disuse.
The people of the 'poor, ruinous town of Kinsale,' as they called themselves, begged for both brothers to help the President in saving them from the fate of Kilmallock.
Kinsale, which the Deputy visited a little later, he found much decayed; the castle and pier both so ruinous that the townsmen were almost defenceless against both pirates and gales.
On his last day, by way of bravado, he smashed and damaged as much of the school property as he could, a proceeding which failed to gain him any admiration, and merely put his father to ruinous expense.
How--how could he profess to reprove another boy on the ground of morality, when he himself said did things less ruinous perhaps, but equally forbidden?
Only once in the entire half-year had he said a lesson to the dreadful master himself, and of course it was a ruinous failure, involving some tremendous pulls of Eric's hair, and making him tremble like a leaf.
He found the place, however, in a most ruinous condition, even the mosque itself being in a dilapidated state.
They next touched at Senna, which was found in a wretchedly ruinous condition.
From a consideration of the ruinous effects of tobacco upon the health and constitution of men.
We hope it will have a wide circulation, and would commend it to the careful perusal of all christians, especially to ministers, who use this vile and ruinous plant.
From a consideration of theruinous effects of tobacco upon public and private morals.
From the consideration of the ruinouseffects of tobacco upon the intellect.
Archidamus son of Agesilaus even reproached the allies with timorous selfishness, partly in deserting their benefactress Sparta at her hour of need, partly in recommending her to submit to a sacrifice ruinous to her honor.
That the plan might very possibly have succeeded; and its success would have been ruinousto the Thebans.
Was the Cabinet really not full of defaulters, And resolved for a time on that ruinous act?
Though some of the houses are very ancient, and the streets are narrow, it has not the ruinous nor close appearance of the other towns on the Paris road.
The principal street is in no way inferior to that of Tours: it is terminated by a noble bridge, which has lately been repaired from the ruinous state in which it was left by the Chouans.
The town has a most ruinous appearance, from the circumstance of many of the houses being built with wood; and by the forms of the windows and the doors, some of them must be very ancient.
FN#23] As far as I could discover, the reason of the ruinous state of the country at present is the effect of the old Wahhabi and Egyptian wars in the early part of the present century, and the misrule of the Turks.
Our road lay northward across the plain towards a long narrow strip of date ground, surrounded by a ruinous mud wall.
A tortuous road from the Harrah to the city wound across the plain, and led to a tall rectangular gateway, pierced in the ruinous mud-wall which surrounds the suburb.
I was astonished to see on both sides of the way, in so small a place, so large a number of houses too ruinous to be occupied.
The walls, gates, and defences of Suez are in a ruinous state, being no longer wanted to keep out the Sinaitic Badawin.
She says, that our marriage would be distressing to your father, injurious to all your family, and ruinous to yourself.
This marriage would be ruinous to Greshamsbury; and yet, what was he to say against it, seeing that the ruin had been his fault, and not his son's?
These walls were standing but ruinous when the noble daughter of Alfred, Ethelfleda, restored them in 907.
I never in my life saw anything so weirdly picturesque and suggestive of the phrase 'In Chancery' as this semi-ruinous mansion.
At Chichester the pikes of the Puritans and their wild savagery reduced the interior to a ruinous desolation.
Keswick remained ruinous until a few years ago, when part of it was restored and used as a cemetery chapel.
However, the necessities ofruinous wars were some excuse for desperate projects.
An armed disciplined body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.
He was soon obliged to make the best terms which he could, and to consent to a treaty which was one of the most ruinous in the archives of France.
It's not only disgraceful to any city, but ruinous to its interests.
Youth are thus exposed to the danger of forming habits of criminal indulgence, as fatal to the health and the character, as they are ruinous to the soul.
But the misfortune is, that this book will not be apt to fall into the hands of those to whom these remarks apply, till the ruinous habit is already formed.
The castle is a largeruinous enclosure of walls and towers, with buildings of all sorts and ages within.
With his rather bourgeois ideas, the ownership of a newspaper will seem to him a ruinous speculation.
He had chosen for his editor a young man, doing business at a breakneck pace, who had lately established himself in the Passage des Panoramas, where he was paying a ruinous rent.
And, thus in a moment confronted with the ruinous outcome of his credulity, he could not yet bring his mind to bear on anything but the utter eclipse of all his own golden dreams.
Indeed, I could not let it go at such a ruinous loss were it not--But, ecco!
This attack succeeded partially; but it was attempted at a moment dramatically critical, and with an effect ruinousto the whole campaign, as well as that particular attack.
