Destructive

Examples

• This labor movement has a destructive and constructive energy within it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There was an accumulation of powerful force in the room, powerful and destructive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I remember, after having witnessed the destructive effects of a fire, I could not even behold a small one in a stove, without a sensation of fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Ada suggested that it was comfortable to know that Mr. Jellyby did not mean these destructive sentiments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Tests are about to be made under special appropriation of Congress, and if its claim can be substantiated, it may become the most destructive engine of warfare known. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The art of war was the trade of kings and princes, and princely was the reward to the subject who was the first to invent the most destructive weapon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Readers, can you conceive anything half so monstrous, half so ruinous to black-pudding men, so destructive to the rising generation? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Water does not always act as a destructive agent; what it breaks down in one place it builds up in another. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Her senses were entirely apart from him, cold and destructive of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In a well-known early Buddhist dialogue there is a destructive analysis of the idea of an enduring individual soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Long before the European war, an inflammable and destructive compound was used in warfare, especially by the Byzantine Greeks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the other hand, sorrow, melancholy, poverty, humility are destructive of it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Perhaps there was something mechanical, now, in her intereSt. Perhaps also her interest was destructive, her analysing was a real tearing to pieces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Jealousy hot as the sun above the line, rage destructive as the tropic storm, the clime of your sensations ignores--as yet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The object of the gun is to combine in one piece the destructive effect of a great many, and to throw a continuous hail of projectiles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This stand, as well as the floor, was almost eaten through by the destructive action of the powerful acid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is painful, I allow, destructive, impracticable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Such destructive forces have to be guarded against in the building of a cannon and have led to a great development over the old-time casting processes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That he need not plunge into this destructive dissipation for the sake of disgusting me, and causing me to fly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This would effectively protect the fire-brick lining from the destructive effects of the heat. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This being dangerous and destructive, a receptacle was devised and fastened to the frame below the reel, into which the film passed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If Christianity was a rebellious and destructive force towards a pagan Rome, it was a unifying and organizing force within its own communion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a destructive organ of criticism of hard and fast dogmas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He was too cold, too destructive to care really for women, too great an egoiSt. He was polarised by the men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But this warm breath on her ears disturbed her again, kindled the old destructive fires. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They shivered in the emotional gale; they obstructed and the gale became destructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many destructive fires have been started by the accidental friction of such matches against rough surfaces. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Only by supplying our passions with civilized interests can we escape their destructive force. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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