Ruinous

Examples

• His only hope was to plead again with May, and on the day before his departure he walked with her to the ruinous garden of the Spanish Mission. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.
• Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. Plato. The Republic.
• Ma's ruinous to everything. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Rector was obliged to take up the money at a ruinous interest, and had been struggling ever since. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If you are not guilty, have a care of appearances, which are as ruinous as guilt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Even those Scotch banks which never distinguished themselves by their extreme imprudence, were sometimes obliged to employ this ruinous resource. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That church, whose dark, half-ruinous turrets overlooked the square, was the venerable and formerly opulent shrine of the Magi. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was merely ruinous to try to work her by conviction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Presently we came to a ruinous old town on a hill, the same being the ancient Jezreel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Jo lives--that is to say, Jo has not yet died--in a ruinous place known to the like of him by the name of Tom-all-Alone's. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous war, which had brought the nation to its present pass. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Neapolitan tax, therefore, is not near so ruinous as the Spanish one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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