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Updated: June 22, 2025
"It would mean ruination to most of us to pull out and leave it to these wolves," said the judge. "We couldn't think of that." "Of course not, I was only making a poor joke when I talked of a retreat," Morgan said. "Things will begin to die down here in a year or two I've seen towns like this before, they always calm down and take up business seriously in time, or blow away and vanish completely.
I would have said it was some planetic force, some convulsion of natural forces, and not an agency of human devisement, that turned Fort Loncin inside out, and transformed it within a space of hours from a supposedly impregnable stronghold into a hodgepodge of complete and hideous ruination.
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. It's mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've GOT to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child." Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time.
"You shall excuse us," replied the female orator; "people cannot be too wary in signing their names in this wicked world; many a one has been brought to ruination by signing his name, and my husband shall not, with my goodwill, draw himself into such a primmineery."
We made it so because we have always found that tardiness is the ruination of all good summers; even camp life must have rules," and Cologne urged the steed to a little faster gait. "Is this your own horse?" asked Dorothy. "No, but we have him for the summer. Mother insisted on us having a real old timer safer, she thinks." "And he knows all the roads, that's something," added Dorothy.
All the same, I can't see much sense in it, eating one's lunch when others are at dinner, and going to bed when the fowls get up! I worry you, don't I, your reverence? Good-night. You're not at all reasonable! She made ready to go, but suddenly came back to put out one of the two lamps, muttering the while that such late prayers spelt ruination in oil.
And after what I saw last night " She paused in very horror of the thought, and MacNair glared into her outraged eyes. "You saw that? You stood by and witnessed the ruination of my Indians?
But on this day he chose to preach a ferocious harangue against divorce as the chief peril, the ruination of modern society. The cowering Charity got from him the impression that home life had always been flawless in this country until the last few years, when divorce began to prosper, and that domestic life in countries where there is little or no divorce had always been an unmitigated success.
At the end of the field two rams were fighting; retreating, then running together, and, leaping from the ground, butting head to head and horn to horn. Anthony watched them absently, pursuing his rude meditations. ... And the succession of bad seasons, the slow ruination of the farmers throughout the country, were but punishment meted out for the accumulated wickedness of the world.
At least the incalculable loss suffered by our forest property in the year 1848, through lavish waste, plundering, and wanton ruination, has certainly, up to the present time, not been made good by natural means.
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