"Ruination" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to a smaller game a few weeks before, and had pressed Burne into service—to the ruination ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... markets, and I don't suppose, to take the case of copper, that a single pound of it is mined from the Rio Tinto without the British Board of Trade knowing all about it. The neutral firms simply dare not risk getting put on to the British Black List; it means ruination for them. And then all these dollar-grabbing Yankees, enjoying all the advantages of war without any of its dangers—they make ...
— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon
... wreck, destruction, undoing, dilapidation, disorganization, perdition, ruination, subversion, shipwreck, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... that my bread rose just as light when Grits were in as when they were not. And if any party, Mrs. Doctor, dear, will make it rain before the week is out, and save our kitchen garden from entire ruination, that is the party Susan will vote for. In the meantime, will you just step out and give me your opinion on the meat for dinner? I am fearing that it is very tough, and I think that we had better change our butcher ...
— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... deplored McCurvin. "If them things git too thick in the desert they'll be the ruination of me. I'll have yore stuff ready ...
— Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail - or, The Fugitive Professor • Burt L. Standish
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