abortment

Updated: August 10, 2026

Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete

Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

Then at the thought that this was abortment, not death that destruction would complete its work before the dreamt-of, vainly awaited denizens would bring life to the still-born houses, one's melancholy deepened to hopeless discouragement.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3