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Updated: June 8, 2025
When the house was plundered, Mahummud ordered the civil magistrate to raze the house and monument; and while that was doing, he carried away the mother and daughter to his palace. There it was he redoubled their affliction, by acquainting them with the caliph's will. "He commands me," said he to them, "to cause you to be stripped, and exposed naked for three days to the view of the people.
His pretty, girlish, beardless face reflected the slightest emotion in sudden flashes; and his big blue eyes also had glowed on hearing what had been said of the people, the new people which it was necessary to create. "Yes!" he slowly replied in his pure and musical voice, "we mean to raze it and not leave a stone of it, but raze it in order to build it up again."
To discover, in a nation virtually accessory as a whole after the fact to the slaughter of the mission, the men on whom lay the suspicion of having been the instigators and the perpetrators of the cruel deed, to accord them a fair trial, and to send to the gallows those on whose hands was found the blood of the massacred mission, was held a more befitting and not less telling course of retributive action than to raze the Balla Hissar and sow its site with salt.
When his trade union has had the time and opportunity to win for him decent wages and living conditions, a reasonable security of the job, and at least a partial voice in shop management, he will, on the relatively high and progressive level of material welfare which capitalism has called into being, be chary to raze the existing economic system to the ground on the chance of building up a better one in its place.
I'll raze it to the ground. But I can't do that alone. Come, you, and help me." And she came and she helped in the work of destruction, and in an ugly, horrible way he loved her for it sometimes, as a criminal might love an assistant in his crime. But from such a type of love there are terrible reactions.
On the still, sunny coasts and the placid sea, and in the serene, smiling sky, there was no sign of the coming tempest which was then raging from Hatteras to Cape Cod; nor could one imagine that this peaceful scene would, a few days later, be swept by a fearful tornado, which should raze to the ground trees and dwelling-houses, and strew all these now inviting shores with wrecked ships and drowning sailors, a storm which has passed into literature in "The Lord's-Day Gale" of Mr Stedman.
This we have proven at last; that crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment. Little by little we have ceased to raze the cities, to wipe out the families, to cut off the ears, to torture; and our imprisonment is changing from slow death and insanity to a form of attempted improvement.
Drew was very kind," Joyce's voice fell dully upon Gaston's impatience; "he's coming to see us!" "The devil he is!" The outburst seemed so childish that Gaston laughed, and his gloom passed. By persistent practice he had felled every circumstance to a dead level he would raze this new element, too, to the ground, and things would assume the old placidity. "We'll welcome him when he comes, Joyce.
'I'll raze out her image, he said. 'She shall make a fool of me no more. And his resolve resulted in conduct which had elements of real greatness. He went back to his father, whom he found in the mill-loft. ''Tis true, father, what you say, he observed: 'my brains will turn to bilge-water if I think of her much longer. By the oath of a navigator, I wish I could sigh less and laugh more!
See to it, Vaubans of your own hearts, who gird them in with triple walls and ditches, and with bolt and chain and bar and lifted bridge, raze those fortifications, and lay them level with the all-absorbing dust, before the night cometh when no hand can work!
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