Damaged

Examples

• I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He had not known how hurt he was, how his tissue, the very tissue of his brain was damaged by the corrosive flood of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Now, said the woman, when she had raised his head on a roll of damaged cotton, which served for a pillow, there's the best I can do for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It may also be used for transporting troops past danger points, and for transporting explosives or other perishable material which might be damaged by fire from the ends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am afraid it will be horribly damaged on the transit, replied the Demarch, smiling. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• On this day Wilson returned from his raid upon the Virginia Central Railroad, having damaged it considerably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sales of one lot Circassians, prime to good, 1852 to 1854, at L240 . 242, buyer 30; one forty-niner--damaged--at L23, seller ten, no deposit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A shaggy little damaged man, withal, not unlike an old dog of some mongrel breed, who has been considerably knocked about. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This unexpected absence of the only local resident whom Eustacia knew considerably damaged her scheme for an afternoon of reckless gaiety. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The terrible whirlwind which damaged a great part of Rome, June 11, 1749, happened in the night of that day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If otherwise, it is damaged or destroyed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Our appearance in a shop was a signal for the damaged goods to be brought out immediately. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Indeed, he had more the appearance in all respects of a damaged young man than a well-preserved elderly one. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He regarded him as a damaged piece of clockwork, which it would be creditable to his skill to set agoing again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fifty-four cities and towns, besides an incredible number of villages, were either destroyed or greatly damaged. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The road was not damaged south of Holly Springs by Van Dorn, at least not to an extent to cause any delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Edited by Amber