Destroyers
[dɪ'strɔɪəz]
Examples
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The latter are now considered as the most formidable and efficient class of destroyers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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