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'I would stop the war to-morrow I would make peace to-morrow if I could you know I would. It will destroy us all ruin us all. It's sheer, stark lunacy. There, you know what I think! 'I don't see what it's ever cost you, Bridget! said Nelly, breathing fast. 'Oh, well, it's very easy to say that but it isn't argument.
If you break down, and we are all discovered living so queer and unnatural, right in the heart of the aristocracy, we should be the laughing-stock of the country: it would kill me, and ruin us all utterly ruin us! 'O mother, I know all that so well! exclaimed Ethelberta, tears of anguish filling her eyes.
He had that optimistic temperament which always believes that the next thing will be a success, even though the present one is a failure. Then, too, he fell into the hands of unscrupulous men, who made him think that great fortunes were to be made out of what they call wildcat schemes, when all the time they were leading him to ruin." Ruin!
These were afterwards transmitted and recorded in the registers of his masters, as an eternal monument of his corruption, and of his high disobedience, and flagitious attempts to prevent a discovery of the various peculations of which he had been guilty, to the disgrace and ruin of the country committed to his care. Mr.
A youth who can fabricate a falsehood so unblushingly as John did this is a candidate for ruin. The reader will not be surprised to learn, before the whole story is told, that he became a miserable, wicked man. This single lie proved that he was destitute of moral principle, and would do almost anything to carry his project.
In this way, through the turbulent zeal of violent people, the ruin of the Roman Empire was brought on.
"I love it, mum." "And you're an early riser?" "Oh yes, mum, it upsets me stopping in bed after half-past five." "You know we do the washing at home?" "Yes, mum. I think it so much better to do it at home. Those laundries ruin good clothes. They're so careless." "Are you a Unitarian?" continued the lady. "Not yet, mum," replied the girl, "but I should like to be one."
After a hard fight with the tempestuous passion of love, and recognising his helplessness against this enemy of his peace, Friedrich has in fact already resolved to face his ruin, even though as a criminal, yet still as a man of honour. An hour on Isabella's breast, and then his own death by the same law whose implacable severity shall also claim Claudio's life.
That Fan was a shy, modest, pretty girl, with a delicate type of face not often seen among those of her class, made the case look all the worse for those who sent her out, exposing her to almost certain ruin.
"It is quite on the cards that I may lose the seat by petition." "They never can be so cruel," said Mary. "Cruelty!" said Sir Thomas laughing. "In politics men skin each other without the slightest feeling. I do not doubt that Mr. Westmacott would ruin me with the most perfect satisfaction, if by doing so he could bring the seat within his own reach again; and yet I believe Mr.
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