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Like a monstrous landslide it had fallen across the path of an orderly laborious nation, disrupting its routine, annihilating its industries, rending families apart, and burying under a heap of senseless ruin the patiently and painfully wrought machinery of civilization...
"Believe me, there is but one sorrow that may not be borne, may not be conquered, and that is poverty, which is a corroding, consuming malady, annihilating body, and soul, swifter and surer than the most subtle poison. It stifles all noble feelings, all poetical thoughts and great deeds, and, believe me, love even cannot resist its terrible power. One day you will understand this.
The possibility, therefore, of quickly and completely getting rid of one rival, in order to have a free hand for all other contingencies, looms very near and undoubtedly presents a practicable means of placing the naval power of England on a firm footing for years to come, of annihilating German commerce and of checking the importance of German interests in Africa and Northern Asia.
England and Russia prevented Bismarck from annihilating France in 1875, an incident which aroused justified fear throughout France and gave an impulse to the revenge party. In 1881 the Iron Chancellor told the French Ambassador: "Outside Europe you can do what you like."
It is that impassible, unextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, "'Vital in every part,... Cannot, but by annihilating, die. "Until this be propitiated or satisfied, it is vain for power to talk either of triumphs or of repose.
Better lose no time in conveying to their intelligences the fact that we are friends, and that if they are prepared to supply us with food, drink, and a shakedown for the night, and to pilot us to the river to-morrow, we will graciously refrain from annihilating them.
Some of these ships were of the largest size then known. There was one belonging to Marquis Santa Cruz of 1500 tons, there was a Biscayan of 1200, there were several others of 1000, 800, and of nearly equal dimensions. Thence sailing for Lisbon, Sir Francis, captured and destroyed a hundred vessels more, appropriating what was portable of the cargoes, and annihilating the rest.
And even on awaking he remained on the bed, helpless, as though he were conquered before he had fought. Why, he wondered, did he experience this prostration, this unreasonable discouragement, this quiver of doubt which had come he knew not whence during his sleep, and which was annihilating his youthful enthusiasm of the morning?
He followed him again with a last resolve, annihilating return. On approaching the nook in which the fold was constructed, the farmer drew out-his pocket-book, unfastened-it, and allowed it to lie open on his hand. A letter was revealed Bath- sheba's. "I was going to ask you, Oak." he said, with unreal carelessness, "if you know whose writing this is?
Don't tell me ye come fer dat wash I been so pestered wid de weather nothin' don't dry." He had dodged a wet sheet and had the old woman by the hand now, her face in a broad grin at sight of him. "No, aunty I came down to pay you some money." "You don't owe me no money leastwise you don't owe me nothin' till ye kin pay it," and she darted an annihilating glance at Todd.
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