Ruine
[ru:ɪn]
Examples
- I shall be ruined, Wegg! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ruined by a fatal inheritance, and restored through me! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If Eva, now, was not more angel than ordinary, she would be ruined. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We walked round the ruined garden twice or thrice more, and it was all in bloom for me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I will be your host in Greece, and will entertain you in my ruined abode,—misnamed a palace,—which is all that remains to me of my forefathers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This life is ruining him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I will lie here, and cling here, till rain, and hail, and lightning and storm, ruining on me, make me one in substance with them below. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This performance must have delighted him to the very bottom of his soul, for he has boasted that his task in life is to aid in ruining le prestige de la culture bourgeoise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typed by Anatole