They could see now the smoking ruins of the village whence the refugees who had really caused them to stop in Hannay had come, a scene of desolation that looked all the worse for the bright sunlight in which it was bathed.
These poor people, whose village would be in ruins now except for us, think we have betrayed them!
I think the ruins are cool enough for us to find out what I want to know.
And no light was shed upon the mystery when he returned, to find that Paul had disconnected the wire in the ruins of the house and was dragging it away from the post where it entered the grounds.
Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh," Layard, 176.
Mountains come into view, rough-modeled, and vast as the ruins of a town.
His ideas themselves are only trivial details compared with his heart--which is there on the ground in ruins in this corner of Hell.
The trenches that run in this valley have a look of earthquake crevasses, and as if whole tombs of uncouth things had been emptied on the ruins of the earth's convulsion.
We have followed a road and have crossed the ruins of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire.
These baleful beings lurked in solitary places, in graves, in the shadow ofruins and on the tops of mountains.
The ruins of two maraes in the island of Moorea are described by Mr. and Mrs. Routledge (l.
Near it were the ruins of a temple of the war god, where multitudes of the corpses of warriors slain in battle had been either buried or left to rot on the ground.
About ten miles inland from the harbour of Apia, in the island of Upolu, are the ruins of a temple, of which the central and side posts and the rafters were all constructed of stone.
But against this view he observes that he examined the bush for some distance in the neighbourhood without finding any trace of ruins or stones of any kind.
Some of these sacred edifices are still impressive in their ruins and deserve the name of megalithic monuments.
The site of the ruins is a flat about three acres in area.
The ruins of native irrigation works are to be found in New Zealand as well as in other parts of Polynesia (J.
In the marae of Tane at Maeva, the ruins of their abode were still standing when I last visited the place.
Of these interesting monuments, which seemed destined to last for ages, only a few insignificant ruins survive; the rest have been destroyed, chiefly at the instigation of the missionaries.
Among the ruins rise practically indestructible observation posts, themselves invisible from afar, but commanding the whole country.
South of the town are the ruins of Newenham Abbey; its history is interesting.
The railway station is about ten minutes' walk from the ancient village, which consists of a few houses picturesquely dotted around the church and scattered ruins of the Abbey of St Peter.
The ruins of Colcombe Castle lie about half-a-mile from the town, and are now used as a farm-house.
Wool has another attraction in the ruins of Bindon Abbey, lying in the thick wood seen from the station, a few minutes to the south of the line towards Wareham.
The prison was largely built from its remains, while in its turn it is said to have been erected from the ruins of a castle built by the Chidiocks.
The remains of the Priory ruins were used up as building material and no trace is left.
Look into an Indian’s face and observe the ruins of what was once manly dignity, indomitable energy, masterful prowess!
When I look upon one of these faces, I have the same thoughts as, when travelling in Europe, I looked upon the ruins of Rome.
So in looking upon one of these faces, which are merely ruins in another sense.
It's a search that ruins order an' the home completely wrecks, For there's no place where you may not find poor Ma's elusive specs.
Oh, the world is now in mourning; round about us all are spread The ruinsand the symbols of the winter that is dead.
As a necessary consequence of this, population diminishes, and everywhere are seen the ruins of once prosperous villages.
But for the trees and rank weeds that cover them, you might there behold the ruins of a city.
Many of them are still erect, to attest the solidity of his work; the ruins of the others raise our surprise that they are not yet entire--so vast in their extent and gigantic in their materials.
It was seen already that a great spiritual empire might be founded upon the ruins of the old Roman world, and spread itself over the perplexed and unstable politics of the barbaric tribes.
Whenever they had it in their power, they crept back from all quarters, if it were only to weep and die amid the ruins of their former power.
Leaving behind him the smoking ruins of Hampton, Cockburn with his fleet dropped down the bay, and, turning southward, cruised along the coast of the Carolinas.
On the 25th of August the British left the smoking ruins of Washington behind them, and made for their fleet lying in the Patuxent.
It was possible to see clearly the steep, jagged cliffs, dark, yellow or rose colored, recalling by their forms the ruins of fortresses or of temples built by giants.
In Egypt itself we find ruins of cities and temples hidden in the earth deeply.
This fire, which flows down its sides in various directions and over an immense stretch of country, ruins the labor of earth-tillers.
We should go on board of ships with our families and treasures and leave to those dogs the ruins of cities and the rotting corpses of slaves.
Illustration: General View of the Ruins of Karnak] In the midst of the hypostyle stood the boat with the mummy of the departed sovereign, and on both sides of it, two thrones of equal height stood opposed to each other.
Wherever they pass through a country nothing is left except ruins and dead bodies, as after a fire--" All at once Rameses raised his head; from a distance came the sound of flutes and horns.
He proposes also to disfranchise the whites of the Southern States, enfranchise the negroes, destroy the State lines and erect on their ruins territories ruled by negroes whom his faction can control.
The same ware was also possibly made in Cataluna, where pieces of it have been found among the ruins of the village of Las Casas.
The Incas and their predecessors built a series of fortresses which commanded the heads of the precipitous valleys leading to the forests, whose ruins remain to-day, and are marvels of ingenuity in megalithic construction.
Remains of ancient civilisations, in the form of stone ruins and appliances, are found east of the Andes, in the Amazon forest regions, and the Chaco plains, arguing the existence of prehistoric conditions of a superior character.
The rage for rising in the social scaleruins the Veneerings, and Podsnappery is a well-chosen name far the heartless dogmatism which rules in English society.
Its conception had come to his mind as he sat one evening amid the ruins of the Capitol at Rome, and heard the barefooted friars singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter.
There are, also, enormous terraces of rock, flattened cones of peaks, with battlements and pinnacles, which at first sight might be taken for ruins and fortresses.
Wherever the ground is broken up, fragments of ruins show themselves.
Besides these, there were a few other ruins or single fragments of buildings and pillars scattered around, but all of them together do not cover a space of two square miles.
The history of the people who once ruled Hindostan may here be studied in the ruins of imperial towns, lying one close beside the other.
It is supposed, however, that the ruins called Mujellibe are the remains of the castle.
I made two long excursions from Baghdad; one to the ruins of Ctesiphon, the other to those of Babylon.
There are numerous ruins here, much the same as in Delhi.
Some resembled the ruins of temples and houses, others trees; indeed, the figure of a woman with a child in her arms, was so natural, that I could scarcely help feeling a regret at seeing it turned into this dismal lifelessness.
The ruins of Ctesiphon may already be seen from this place, although they are still nine miles distant.
Only two days afterwards, I set out on my road to the ruins of the city of Babylon.
There are no vestiges of antiquity remaining; neither ruins of handsome mosques nor caravansaries.
Opposite these ruins on the western shore of the Tigris, lie a few remains of the walls of Seleucia, the capital of Macedonia.
It appears to have been formerly covered with one, but it is not possible to decide from the few ruins that now remain.
If a great part of them were not already covered with a thin layer of earth, these ruins would certainly be the most extensive in the world.
These ruinsare said to be those of the remarkably fine temple of Jupiter.
From the number of handsome apartments, the abundance of marble, and the paintings and inscriptions upon it, the inference is drawn that this spot contains the ruins of a royal palace.
If we worry, the leak of nervous energy is tremendous, but at the same time we put ourselves in position where we are unable to replenish our stock, for worry ruins digestion.
The grease ruins a part of the potato and makes the rest more difficult to digest.
Unfortunately, nearly all of them are persuaded to eat many times more food than they can digest, and thus they have no opportunity to recover, for the overfeeding ruins the digestive and assimilative powers beyond recuperative ability.
Often those who are so well fed are poorly nourished, for the excessive amount of food ruins the nutrition, after which the food is poorly digested and assimilated.
I've a letter from Benjamin Hardy in New York, stating that the records have been found in the ruins of the burned church on the coast of Brittany, where the marriage was performed.
Houses and farms were in ruins and their people fled.
The bats, emerging from the ivied ruins they left behind, flitted and skimmed before them, chasing the insects of the night.
The lawn was a spacious table-land facing the west, and backed by a green and gentle hill, crowned with the ruins of an ancient priory.
This year he founded Fatehpur-Sikri, the magnificentruins of which compel, in the present day, the admiration of the traveller.
Akbar had for some time past resolved to build on its ruins a fortress which should be worthy of the ruler of an empire, and in the late spring of 1565 he determined on the plans, and gave the necessary orders.
Near here too are three small lakes, Duddingston, Dunsappie and St Margaret's, the last overlooked by the ruins of St Anthony's chapel.
