Ruined

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.
• A Countess living at an inn is a ruined woman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You have saved an innocent man's life, and you have prevented a very grave scandal, which would have ruined my reputation in the Force. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He wished to improve that which was already perfect--to draw the rope tighter yet round the neck of his unfortunate victim--and so he ruined all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Ruined the nest, alas! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It would not have ruined you for life, if it had fallen into some other person's hands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was he that ruined the Bourbons and Mr. John Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I trembled to think of the ruined purses this day's performances might result in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The man who borrows in order to spend will soon be ruined, and he who lends to him will generally have occasion to repent of his folly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A private expedition to make excavations among the ruined cities of Central America is, it seems, about to sail from Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I remember once going in a lilac silk to see candles made, and my gown was utterly ruined. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What a world of ruined sculpture was about us! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yonder is a ruined arch of a bridge built by Julius Caesar nineteen hundred years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I was ruined, shamefully, hopelessly ruined. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the close of the struggle all Germany was ruined and desolate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A couple of years ago he wounded his daughter and shot himself because he had become ruined financially. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You were never easy until you had got me married and ruined. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But now she was not to be violated and ruined. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What do you suppose ruined me, now? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This eventwhich seemed so untoward--which I thought had ruined at once my chance of successful persuasion--proved my best help. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I do believe the woman wants the poor girl to be ruined, in order that she shouldn't come into the family as Lady Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Editor: Paula