“No, we have to go on Wednesday. I’ll write you full details of my plan. You must show the plan to no one. Memorize all the details; then destroy my note.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could kill him so easily, tear that grin from his face...She could destroy the king as he had destroyed her... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dark stone surrounded us on three sides, but there was a clear view of the ruined cabin and the destroyed trees below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was no mean feat to alter some of the dimensions without destroying the mechanisms. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“And if one were, accidentally, of course, not destroyed—and there happened to be a humanoid structure waiting for a brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“You admit that I could destroy your sacred chamber!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed the gray walls seemed to suck up the light and destroy it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The law forbade taking any of the shards, which seemed particularly absurd, considering they were smack in the middle of a bomb and missile range, bound to be hit and destroyed eventually. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You do not understand, Hazel Levesque. I devour magic. I destroy the voice and the soul. You cannot oppose me.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tears will destroy every layer of makeup I have on, but I don’t care. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was one called the “destroying angel” that would kill people who ate it so they were absolutely dead in a few days. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if he had been one of the culprits who had destroyed her traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find a good rhythm and put the police and corpses and destroyed gym behind us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The song “Weevily Wheat” refers to wheat that is infested with beetles or weevils that destroy the plants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

You don’t destroy what you want to acquire in the future. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their main objective is to draw the Union Army out into the open where it can be destroyed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So those hybrids destroying your house—that bruise you supposedly got—that was just to convince me to come back?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some kept the excess birds under control; some kept the rabbits from destroying his garden; others cleaned up the rats, mice, and voles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In 1986, the Shuttle Challenger was destroyed about a minute after liftoff, when a hole burned through the side of a solid rocket booster, causing a gigantic explosion. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smashing mills, destroying warehouses, setting fields on fire, the freedom fighters demolished some one thousand plantations—and that was just in the first two months of their revolution. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ben said that they came to this world for the simpler life, said that there was even a fight in the early days whether to destroy the fission generators.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then all the screens in the Erudite lobby—at least those that weren’t destroyed in the attack—flicker on, including a projector positioned over the wall where Jeanine’s portrait used to be. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a second she wanted to scratch the entire cover away, and the pages beneath, as if destroying the book would destroy her need to understand it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Purple light sprayed upward like shattered glass, and the tide poured through, shredding trees, destroying roads, wiping the Little Tiber off the map. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the same way, if we destroy an enzyme that functions at any point in the cycle, oxidation ceases. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

An Adam-style house had stood here until destroyed by fire in the late 1880s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It had nearly destroyed Kerch-Zemeni relations and sent the Merchant Council into an uproar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It takes longer but that person is destroyed gradually, by his or her own conscience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If it’s destroying you, why do you still drink? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new science destroyed the old one taught by the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And I was so close then, I could reach up and push her hair back from her beautiful, destroyed face. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m destroying my dignity without sliding down anything.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Obviously we will destroy it. The only way to deprive the Erudite of power is to deprive them of knowledge.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A spoonful of the stuff would destroy a city. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The priest Laocoön, when the horse was first discovered, had been urgent with the Trojans to destroy it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If drugs almost destroyed me, I wouldn’t take money that’s made from them either. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The squad might be ordered to set the thatched huts on fire, destroying them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered the mangled remains of the diary, and how the stone in the Horcrux ring had been cracked open when Dumbledore destroyed it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a man who understands nature and the world. If he wanted to, he could destroy this camp just with the force of the wind.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how strong or lucky he was, no matter how many monsters he destroyed, Percy would eventually fail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The dragon destroyed the magistrate's palace, causing chaos and calamity before disappearing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it could not be called a city, for it was, as the dragon had predicted, destroyed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We came not to destroy the town,” he said, “but only to reclaim the dead.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it is destroyed, then he will fall; and his fall will be so low that none can foresee his arising ever again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as the legion destroys Camp Half-Blood, the monsters will turn on Octavian and destroy the legion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Roosevelt said our homes should stay right here in town and never, ever be destroyed.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He is still the same person who was willing to kill and maim and destroy to climb to the top of his initiate class. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The story was about a lonely girl named Ivy whose house got destroyed by a tornado. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘But -’ ‘Seriously, guys,’ Leo said, ‘I’m fine, except for the fact that Gaia’s destroying the world tomorrow. Let’s focus.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Here and there the perches gave way under the weight with a crash, and, falling to the ground, destroyed hundreds of the birds beneath, forcing down the dense groups with which every stick was loaded. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t take out your anger by destroying things,” a counselor said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And when it tore, it destroyed some of the connections between neurons, which was a word the doctor had to explain to us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Although the master spy Sargo remained elusive, his networks were quickly destroyed, and so were his radio stations and power bases. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The celestial bronze blade had to be destroying his essence. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The chemical has also destroyed some important insect predators and so has caused an increase in the tortricids — small, stout-bodied moths whose larvae scar the surface of the bananas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Though controversial, the ad was stunningly effective; it destroyed Dukakis’s chances of ever becoming president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But if we do not destroy ourselves, I believe that we will one day venture to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of our food was gone, either lost overboard or destroyed by the water that had come in. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I explain that the Dauntless have allied with the factionless, and they plan to destroy all of Erudite, leaving us without one of the two essential factions. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My digestion has been destroyed. I think that I am beginning to bloat!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurl the pit at the water, watching ripples destroy the possibility of any reflections. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, the majority of the Fishery made it through the fire without much damage at all, but the northeast quarter of the shop was practically destroyed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I am, in fact, wounded. My constitution has been destroyed by the enemy. The enemy is the sea.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, to merely achieve fairness, one had to destroy apartheid itself, for it was the very embodiment of injustice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In environmental terms, Thoreau, who saw the landscape as imbued with an essential wildness that could be heedlessly destroyed, embodies physis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Find and destroy the evil lurking in the castle indeed! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jail is a good place for people who want to destroy the government. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

That one vial could kill every person in the ship—not to mention every last terra-former, and me, Javier, and the other kids—if I don’t destroy it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘I thought most giants could only be destroyed by a god and demigod working together.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No one had been hurt, but the car that held all our documents was destroyed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not wasting my money to destroy a perfectly good Pop Tart in a microwave.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If they wasted time searching through Alaska looking for the giant’s lair, Gaea’s armies would destroy the Romans... and Percy’s other friends, wherever they were. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘The demigod ship sails around the Peloponnese. Already they have destroyed the ghosts at Ithaca and captured the goddess Nike in Olympia!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Those cow monsters...the katoblepones that poisoned you...I had to destroy them.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“At least rip out his tongue. This man’s lie could destroy us all, Magnificence.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to destroy myself even if it destroyed the machine; I wanted freedom, not destruction. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young wasp, hatching as a larva, feeds on the paralyzed grub and destroys it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

How could those men do something like this, destroy someone’s house in the dead of night, and get away with it? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They’re against us, they hate us, they want to destroy us. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was determined to do whatever it took to destroy it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The explosion that destroyed the gym came out of nowhere. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And the next morning a telegram from southern Japan reached Tokyo: “The whole city of Hiroshima was destroyed instantly by a single bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally understood how her life had been destroyed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

King was painfully aware he could—would—irrevocably destroy his partnership with the president by unequivocally speaking out against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lying on top of the pile is a pink silk shirt, a blue jean jacket, and brown corduroy pants—all remnants of past lives to be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we destroy a wild area, we may be destroying a whole species of plant or animal that is not found anywhere else. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you possess something that you have destroyed? One charge or the other should be set aside.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Despite constant maintenance, erosion silted up reservoirs, hurricanes destroyed terraces, and weeds and sediment choked irrigation networks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before they could accept zero, philosophers in the West would have to destroy their universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Prince Jones was a one of one, and they had destroyed his body, scorched his shoulders and arms, ripped open his back, mangled lung, kidney, and liver. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Soon they would use it to destroy Octavian and bring Rome to its knees. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She would never do something rash or stupid just because she hated you, and if she made a plan to destroy you, it would not fail. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

One week after that ceremony in Rochester, New York, Time appeared on the stands with Ernests bright blue eyes staring out from the front cover over the caption “He creates and destroys.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When they finally left, the flowers were destroyed, the furniture broken, and the walls covered with drawings and writing, but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One decision that would save or destroy the West. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

All you are doing is destroying our nice race relations.’ The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I’m in a rush to tell Miss Cook I destroyed a book. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And once again he was allowing the past to destroy him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Whoever destroyed the first floor hadn’t bothered coming up here. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to know that I destroyed that white team yesterday.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t it tell her how to find the people who’d destroyed her family? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Most had come from war-ravaged regions where the police and other authority figures not only were untrustworthy but had the power to destroy lives. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hoping to turn me against the rebels and possibly destroy them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It had been the first time I’d seen him since my first day in Tarbean when he and his friends had jumped me in that alley and destroyed my father’s lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Watching him destroy his opponents had the same effect as a horror movie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad reportedly had said at another time, “Malcolm is destroying himself,” and that he had no wish whatever to see Malcolm X die, that he “would rather see him live and suffer his treachery.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with destroying breeding areas, adult mosquito populations were also attacked with the widespread use of the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, better known as DDT, much of it sprayed from planes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Plus, Robin had never had her house destroyed before. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were well toward middle age when Caesar destroyed the Roman republic in the process of saving it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blow your little horns, Romans. I’ve come to destroy you! Stheno!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The storm destroyed buildings, broke trees, and killed a man in Barberton, Ohio, but it did not stop the Limited. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The instructor breaks us into squads of eight and we attempt to carry out missions—gaining a position, destroying a target, searching a home—as if we were really fighting our way through the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Nemesis said we have only six days until Nico dies and Rome is destroyed.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whoever had written it had wanted to destroy the Allens. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Giddy, he sashayed over to the cages where the dogs were destroying their chew toys, shredding them to pieces. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two years after writing these words, Cortes utterly destroyed Tenochtitlan along with the rest of the Aztec civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, softly, I will move from bed, to bed and destroy them all, swallow every last man. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the children raised an imaginary rifle and made an attempt to destroy him with a firing noise. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans in the slaughterhouse had a very interesting visitor two days before Dresden was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t care about anything and tries to destroy anything that gets in his way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This individual was so nearly destroyed that he had passed into that calm, quiet mental state that immediately precedes death by drowning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This estimate was very roughly corroborated two decades later by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, who destroyed the annual harvest of four adjacent Haudenosaunee villages to deter future attacks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for posterity, the Spaniards destroyed all but four of these books. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Smaller native societies were destroyed more casually, by small-scale raids and murders carried out by private citizens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only clue we found—more than a clue, really—was an old newspaper article—a notice that Mr. Rufus Weylin had been killed when his house caught fire and was partially destroyed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This way, I won’t be tempted to pop into the house every day to see how Daniel is destroying my kitchen. And we’ll save a little money.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even the Mud People hadn’t been able to destroy that. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I glared at the mosaic—little tile explosions destroying tile monsters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Germany was sinking over a thousand Allied merchant ships every year, killing many sailors and destroying a vast tonnage of Allied supplies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The shocked silence gave way to a roar of complaints: “Look, my shoes are destroyed—and I bought them in Paris!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He would save a friend even if it meant destroying the world. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Within forty-eight hours, more than 236 Jews were murdered; 1,300 synagogues were burned; and more than 7,000 Jewish shops, businesses, schools, and private homes were vandalized and destroyed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t lost on her that she had destroyed a tennis court, just like her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I jerk myself up, a panic destroying whatever calm listening to Gran had offered. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of catching and destroying tsetse flies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather Southside had moved to our neighborhood after a fire destroyed his old house on the West Side, though luckily nobody’d been hurt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This black family home was destroyed by a bomb. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to picture what might happen to them if this place was destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Percy, Beckendorf chose a heroic death. You bear no blame for that. Kronos’s army will be in disarray. Many were destroyed.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to that big prophecy, I was supposed to make a choice that saved or destroyed the world when I was sixteen. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘We hope to lead you into the tunnels and destroy you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Caesar was one of those who wanted to gain the principality of Rome; but if he had survived and had not moderated his expenditures after doing so, he would have destroyed the power he acquired. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Zeus ordained the explosion to destroy the children,” she said, “because you defied his will. I had nothing to do with it. And I did warn you to hide them sooner.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Worse, the drawing—the burning, destroying—isn’t done. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The physiological effect of DDD is probably unique among insecticides, for it destroys part of the adrenal gland — the cells of the outer layer known as the adrenal cortex, which secretes the hormone cortin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But a few guests could set back the feeding plans for the week if you did not build up what you destroyed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had stamped out every ray of hope, destroyed their lives completely, like a fairy godmother she presented them with a solution. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They refused to waste their time on a bankrupt theory that would destroy their reputation as code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And after destroying the birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish of the Earth, the Nephilim began to eat one another’s flesh and drink one another’s blood. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine? I’m naked and crouching down in the water, and this Rusty machine is destroying my camp!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He knew all the natural harbors, the swiftest currents, how to avoid a squall even when it seemed intent on destroying him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Personally, I’m hoping nobody’s home. We walk in, find Percy and Annabeth, destroy the Doors of Death, and walk out. Maybe stop at the gift shop.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But because of what they’re putting him through, I don’t have any reservations anymore. About doing whatever it takes to destroy the Capitol. I’m finally free.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You know that. They rout up the forest floor and destroy the plants and the animals that live among them. They’re smelly. . . .” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked through everything, opening drawers and dumping the contents on the floor, ignoring Mama’s and Doc’s pleas for him to not destroy what we had. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They destroyed the Miamis’ two largest towns and took forty-one women and children captive, then sent warnings to the other towns that the same would happen to them unless they surrendered unconditionally. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, they said, the American fleet would be totally destroyed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most were destroyed with arrows, but one got hold of an Apollo camper and dragged him away. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then Percy had controlled the river and destroyed the gorgons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Charlie had been gassed in the Great War, his vocal cords all but destroyed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And it wouldn’t be any fun—would it?—unless the clothes were all reasonably orderly to begin with, which is where I come in, constantly re-creating orderliness for the customers to maliciously destroy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A disaster might kill every single one of Peugeot’s employees, and go on to destroy all of its assembly lines and executive offices. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might have been born the biggest fish in the sea, but the skill and perseverance of those lower born can take you down and destroy you.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He would destroy as many as he could. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the Designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments are attempted on an improved design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What we found,” Lesser says, “almost destroyed us.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he destroyed only half of Kentucky. He’s slowing down. Losing power.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He began destroying them in the quest to save their legacy. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And there was that little matter of the giants destroying Rome, waking Gaea, and taking over the world. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted—confidence destroyed! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thus, they were obliged to destroy many of the cities in that region in order to retain it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So when it’s detonated, the child will be destroyed, wherever she is?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Because of Twelve. Because they destroyed my district.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The newly formed US government began to move more aggressively to claim Indigenous lands and destroy Native nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“But... he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Many had come from places that had been destroyed by war, so they had never had access to any kind of formal education. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I fled across the street, I clutched onto my borrowed hat with both hands, knowing that Haskel would murder me if I destroyed it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine what it had been like for his greatgrandfather, accused of destroying the entire camp, drummed out of the legion for something he didn’t do. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when Monster Slayer was done with destroying enemies, he became ill himself. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Thor hit anything with it, that thing would be destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Somehow the reporters concluded that the sick monkeys had been “destroyed as a precaution” when in fact the nightmare, and the reason for troops, was that the animals hadn’t been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And those who will take a weapon to such an enemy must be sterner than steel, if the very shock shall not destroy them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

If they chose wrong, they would fail, and the entire world would be destroyed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to let him destroy my terrible mood. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The guest list alone can ruin lives, destroy families, and create deep wounds that take years to heal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As for Hazel, she and Alcyoneus had managed to destroy most of the barracks in their battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

One is a Mass he wrote for Reims Cathedral, newly rebuilt but subsequently destroyed in the French Revolution, and which, as it happens, had a complex maze set into its nave. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And a fire destroyed the office of District Attorney George Graham, leaving only a photograph of Holmes unscathed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But the way the French see it, the Germans destroyed civilization here in Europe and no punishment is too bad for them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The new instruments and the oceans of printed books opened up new experiences and destroyed old authorities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now we would discover the answer to our most dreaded question: Had our house been destroyed? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A psychological film about a man and woman apparently in love but actually destroying each other. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The colonizer armies, militias, and rangers knew that obtaining the land would be easier if, in addition to attacking Indigenous people, they destroyed Indigenous towns and food supplies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had a grin that completely destroyed the effect of his eyes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As Nathan had expected, the rocks rushed together and destroyed the container. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What had happened must have been truly disgusting to make her destroy my good clothing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had made them had now destroyed them, erased them like mistakes in a drawing, like marks on white paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a very little while the animals had destroyed everything that reminded them of Mr. Jones. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If we did that, we should have been destroyed long ago. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They desecrated the Hagia Sophia and now they destroyed Smyrna!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is when confronted by the overwhelming signal of free molecules of endotoxin, evoking memories of vibrios in great numbers, that the limulus flies into panic, launches all his defenses at once, and destroys himself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all this opportunity has meant to you. Your genius has destroyed your faith in the world and in your fellow men.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And if you don’t, the gods will die, the world we know will perish, and everyone from your old life will be destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He slashed the golden blade, destroying the first katobleps and letting the others bunch up in front of him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’d assumed that the island where she had died hadn’t been completely destroyed, or possibly had risen again when Alcyoneus woke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Astonished, Bruno added, “Jesus. They did so much shuffling and scuffling we’d never get a decent footprint. Looks to me like somebody ran twenty head of buffalo through here just to destroy the evidence.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about throwing my body into this river that had destroyed my family’s happiness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this is something even the most intelligent Erudite do not know; something that, if everything is destroyed, we cannot replicate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brittle, breaking, destroyed, because The Taker is sitting right next to her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail! Ho, God!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it not what he had once wished to destroy during his ardent years of asceticism? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the bear carving on his totem destroyed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One friend even gave her the bunk bed that Ashley and I would sleep on—I immediately started swinging and somersaulting from the wooden slats under the top bunk and nearly destroyed several of them! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap. Maybe we could find this cursed blade and destroy it. Sounds like Kronos's scythe, right?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

About this time, this destroying scourge, the malignant fever, crept in among us. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When we sense lipopolysaccharide, we are likely to turn on every defense at our disposal; we will bomb, defoliate, blockade, seal off, and destroy all the tissues in the area. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one way to protect herself from the people who had destroyed her family. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Thus, one by one, I destroyed them all so that there were only ashes left to mark the village of Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beat the high score or be destroyed!” the voice announced. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As they strolled, Hiskey shocked Franklin by saying: “Imagine a bomb dropped in the center of this city, which would destroy the entire city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Stella stood perched, clearly doing her best not to destroy any buildings with those monstrous claws. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If those were destroyed, their only other option would be the ones at the rear of the school—which meant going back toward the fire. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The act of purposely destroying the property of someone else’s business. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They also joined the frontier-ranging militias that cleared areas for settlement by exterminating Indigenous farmers and destroying their towns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It charges Helmuth up, makes his own heart beat with fear as Hitler warns that Communism could destroy the Fatherland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three objects, or Hallows, which, if united, will make the possessor master of Death...Master...Conqueror...Vanquisher...The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once destroyed, populations of these insects, so essential to the survival of trout, take a long time to rebuild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I spent several hours on the typing, destroying copy after copy until I had completed one that was immaculate, carefully phrased and most respectful. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Urn . Dakota shuffled his feet. ‘Even if you get the statue to the hill, what’s to stop Octavian from destroying it once it’s in place? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Fabyan was reading their mail before they did, and he destroyed any letters he didn’t want them to see. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the impact of Nixon’s determination to destroy Daniel Ellsberg was still to be felt. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Olmsted’s memory was not so destroyed that he did not realize he himself had designed McLean’s grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only the zebra fish, though, can do the truly necessary thing: If his heart is broken or damaged or destroyed, he can grow a new one. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sheer power of nuclear weapons themselves, any one of which could destroy an entire city, established a new principle for military conflict, dubbed "mutual assured destruction," or "MAD." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the story of the steam-powered boat is based on a misunderstanding: Papin had built a boat powered neither by sail nor oars, and the boat was indeed destroyed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For six days Encanis fled, and six great cities he destroyed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But this time, not only the fields were destroyed, but the warehouses down by the docks in Eames. This is going to be big money, and I intend to go in heavy.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Heat rays have destroyed power lines, blacking out communication with parts of New Jersey, the announcer adds. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My Christmas ornament and Dad’s painting had been destroyed, but just because they were destroyed doesn’t mean some traces of them, however small and broken, weren’t left behind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The silence of the night completely destroyed, they all stood there on the road like actors in a play, each waiting for the other’s next move. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pleaded with everyone to come together and to volunteer to clean up the neighborhoods and help restore the Negro businesses that had been destroyed. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But once started, the flesh continued to coat the foreign body until it fell free in some tidal flurry or until the oyster was destroyed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the Talmud, it says, ‘Whoever destroys a single life has destroyed the entire world.’ Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

These included beheading, scalping, enslavement, and destroying entire villages and food supplies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As long as her blaze didn't get out of hand and destroy everyone and everything. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"If you knew what was coming, you’d understand—” "I understand you want to destroy the camp!” she yelled. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and grief and that he ought to set out on his mission to find and destroy Horcruxes as soon as possible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When she saw a monstrous turtle destroy a hundred villages with each step of his foot, she flew down in a fury and slew it with her sword. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Remember Napoleon’s dream of a French sugar empire and how the victorious Haitians destroyed it? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We don’t want to destroy the whole boat. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You are forgetting...you have already destroyed one of them. And I have destroyed another.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew had a tale of homes destroyed, families torn apart, and heartbreaking loss. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Many of those whom he falsely accused had their careers permanently destroyed and their lives shattered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

‘For,’ said he, ‘Minas Ithil in Morgul Vale shall be utterly destroyed, and though it may in time to come be made clean, no man may dwell there for many long years.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I know about second chances. That boy, Percy Jackson—he destroyed my old life. You wouldn’t have recognized me back then. I wore dresses and makeup. I was a glorified secretary, an accursed Barbie doll.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘Alas, my cruel fate condemns me to remain here till my tyrant is destroyed.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I know about your family. That story about your great-grandfather? He didn’t really destroy the camp. Now, what an interesting group. Are you hungry?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Piper, that’s brilliant! If you’re right, this is great news. We just have to figure out which of us destroys Gaea.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Also, we probably should’ve done this outside. I guess we better start cleaning,” Twig said as she surveyed the destroyed shag rug in the basement. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The bombs didn’t destroy this area before,” Rashid explained, trying to calm the panic growing inside him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her new church absorbed her but did not destroy her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first woman, Annie Lou, told Stella’s mother, “We heard about the terrible fire last night, and the women of our church decided we want to help that poor family whose house was destroyed.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While the sisters were incarcerated, the police raided the Weekly’s office and destroyed their presses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They seem to be accusing him of plotting to destroy the Chateau de Saint-Malo, though why they might believe this is not clear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some have built fortresses; others have torn them down and destroyed them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He saw himself as another William Sebold, the Nazi spy who became famous for destroying Hitler's spy ring in America by turning into a double agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It's the same one I used to power the drill that destroyed Pathfinder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw what happened when you multiply a number by zero: the number line is destroyed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And when the elements had destroyed the blankets beyond repair, I used the shells to protect myself from the sun by propping them against each other and lying beneath them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have dated, fallen in love, and Jesse’s suicide wouldn’t have destroyed me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now I found out I’d nearly destroyed the Northwest U.S. and almost woken the most horrible monster ever imprisoned by the gods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The factions are evil. They cannot be restored. I would sooner see us all destroyed.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t returned to the Great Library since—and wondered how many of those invaluable works had been ordered destroyed by the King of Adarlan when he outlawed magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A catastrophic fire in Jackson Park could destroy the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He could never return, but it troubled him to think that she was destroying a part of herself for his sake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Besides increasing advisors, he had authorized the spraying of highly toxic Agent Orange and other defoliants to destroy enemy cover in the jungle, as well as rice crops in areas controlled by the Viet Cong. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You find it unpleasant to destroy your old camp?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only you and I have experienced how dangerous this is, that means you and I have to destroy it. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She’d destroyed an island, died, and come back from the Underworld. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I knew I was about to destroy what she’d been able to rebuild, but I had only one life. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors on the Cliff, doubtless concluding that one of us had fallen down and had had to be destroyed, watched our actions through binoculars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you put the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, you see that the blood is destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She destroyed the page and could not seem to start another. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Near five hundred homes were destroyed that night, plus shops, churches, and stables. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your family business destroyed my family business," I replied. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

For Christ says, ‘Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only picture the gun, the block tower’s magic destroyed by foreign invasion. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The tank seemed to have come alive, as if it was boiling with fury, ready to destroy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Mama was lucky. The city didn’t want a scandal. They agreed not to press charges if she signed a confidentiality agreement and destroyed all her research.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I told her of the anger and hatred pent-up inside millions of blacks, destroying their minds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also mobilized the Virginia militia to invade the Ohio Valley, instructing them to destroy Shawnee towns and provisions and to “distress them in every other way that is possible.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Until we are destroyed to the last man, We shall harass the enemy.. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at John, who was grimly destroying the square, tasseled doilies that decorated Florence’s easy chair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Workmen trampled his plantings and destroyed his roads. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘And Orcs would have taken or destroyed all the boats, and the baggage as well.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The emergency supplies of food and medicine would last only a few days at most, and most of the storage facilities for grain, meats, and beverages had been destroyed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’s attacked the Republic’s military assets on his own, slowed down shipments to the warfront, and destroyed our warfront-bound airships and fighter jets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The only time she dissuaded him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fear of Communism had all but destroyed Americans ability to deal with the complexities of class issues, or even to recognize that class differences exist in this country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Once the statue is returned to the Greeks ... I think it will be difficult to destroy. It has great magic. It has simply chosen not to use it yet.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Doors whose thresholds no one crossed, whose keys had been destroyed or lost, or locked away themselves for safety’s sake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If you let Gaea drive our camps apart,” Annabeth said, “the giants have already won. They’ll destroy the Romans, the Greeks, the gods, the whole mortal world.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That shot destroyed the quiet, moonlit peace of the hill, and it shattered my childhood into a thousand fragments that long ago stopped falling and are now dusty relics gathered in distant memories. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Romans always wanted bread and circuses—food and entertainment! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Except, in this version of events, Old Man House was never destroyed. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Percy and his allies had destroyed the worst Titan, Kronos, but even his remains might be down here somewhere—a billion angry Titan particles floating through the blood-colored clouds or lurking in that dark fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He admitted to destroying evidence and arranging “hush money” to be funneled from the White House to Hunt and Liddy—cash in exchange for their silence. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They wanted to destroy everything to satisfy their stupid pride. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy’s bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scooped Laney up and crashed down the stairs, the destroyed breakfast left abandoned outside the Beiderman’s door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The sit-in was planned to achieve the maximum national effect and paced to build a powerful and sustainable movement capable of destroying Jim Crow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The knuckles on his right fist looked like they’d been destroyed, actually. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s hand was in terrible pain, and Isabelle’s foot felt like it was broken, but they tried desperately to keep the old man from destroying his drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I would destroy my love and my land. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I say, Come here like the mangy dog you are! Come and see your power destroyed! Mezu-kano-eh!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the demon was released, it would destroy the treaty, and Seth would die, along with Grandpa, Grandma, and Lena! Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She knew that her home had been destroyed, though secretly she had hoped she was mistaken. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there houses were clustered near one another against small forests and wild, disorganized fields, but they were green—nothing was destroyed! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“So now you’re the savior of the Scholars, after spending years creating the weapons that have destroyed us?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alba spent two days walking around the house in circles in a state of sheer despair, going through the books in Jaime’s tunnel and on her own shelves and destroying anything that might be compromising. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Berlin they toured the canal system and learned the best way to destroy a lock, which was integral to the raising and lowering of the water levels while transporting supplies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow Rue and I must find a way to destroy their food. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their orders were to march across New York and into northern Pennsylvania, where they were to burn and loot all Indigenous villages and destroy their food supplies, turning the survivors into refugees. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Figuring the big tree would eventually destroy the small deformed pine anyway, Cole chose it for his Christmas tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I had not seen him for a while, as another stepmother had destroyed our relationship again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There it was, like an accusation, reminding Hugo that everything in his life had been destroyed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The cosmic struggle of the two forces would destroy everything! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stable had been destroyed, along with the fire department and almost every other building around that part of the waterfront. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Above them, robot monsters are destroying a village. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And even if he had somehow chanced upon them, it’s difficult to imagine him destroying the buildings without boasting of the deed in his diary. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By law, Helmuth is supposed to destroy the leaflet, but he doesn't, not right away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Grace,” her father said gently, like his voice could hit a trip wire and destroy them all, “you have siblings.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And it was taboo because, more than any other controversy, it possessed the political potential to destroy the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Judging from the size of the weapons, Reyna calculated that Octavian had enough firepower to destroy every living thing in the valley. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This is thievery. What right have you to destroy my home?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All such clothing was supposed to have been destroyed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that instant, I knew I could stop him, cripple him, in this primitive age, destroy him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Calculus was the very language of nature, yet its very fabric was infused with zeros and infinities that threatened to destroy the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Clear up?” said Ron, looking around at the partly destroyed café. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Ethan,” I pleaded, “don’t listen to them. Help me destroy it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Neither Briony nor the war had destroyed it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But they would all be destroyed, defaced, trampled underfoot. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I will always treasure those days, and I will never forgive myself for destroying something very special. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coconut thatching, some of it still part of the old palm lightning had destroyed, as I could tell from the colour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Witch in the woods? The one who insists that we sacrifice a baby every year or she will destroy us all?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the existing dagger could not be destroyed, and so it promised never to harm another through trickery, or by accident.’” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Lightning sand is moist and basically destroys by drowning. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He wanted to sweep down on the enemy and destroy them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Such a pity to destroy a handsome young face,” she told me soothingly. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Me, I’m still learning, but John Mark says if I played in a league with other kids my age, I’d destroy them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

If Mom gets ahold of it, she will destroy it with her negative Mom-hammer and spray me with venom in the process. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I have a good mind to write to your poor mother and I would if I thought it wouldn’t destroy her entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I destroyed that tape, I played it so much,” Kenna says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

To the north, the wind had destroyed all vegetation, and she could see the immense plains of dunes and distant hills quivering in the sweltering light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three torpedoes. E deck, the engine room, and the forward compartments are destroyed.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In some cases, we know only the tantalizing titles of the works that were destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even though with men it’s different—the state of mind is different— the result is not that much different. You destroy a life, and even if you don’t destroy a life, you maim the person.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But apart from my flight bag, all my British pilot’s gear had to be destroyed, helmet and parachute and all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“And once we get hold of it, how do you destroy a Horcrux?” asked Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At the end, I wrote, “Please destroy this after you have finished reading it.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that the bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In this they are like hiv, which also destroys the immune system, but unlike the creeping onset of hiv, the attack by Ebola is explosive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, he also almost destroyed the world, but probably best not to focus on that bit. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But his resentment and jealousy of me are increasing daily; no doubt they will ultimately overwhelm him and destroy his mind. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever the robot tags, the robot destroys,” said Wiki, her words sharp. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born to destroy Neptune. I can sense...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It ain’t doing nothing but destroying my body and destroying my family. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harbor police and firefighters arrived and managed to put out the latter two fires before the buildings were completely destroyed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t how it works, Jinny,” said Ben, surveying the ragged cushions and the destroyed couch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid it was destroyed at a really wild gathering. Everyone dearly loved it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I didn’t destroy the photographs now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you see? Your father would have destroyed any message she sent. But you can contact her now. Your convent— where is it?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So ancient that I believed-it no more than a legend. There are still deep secrets concerning Dyrnwyn, unknown even to the wisest. Its loss destroyed Spiral Castle and was a severe blow to Arawn.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When Dresden was destroyed later on, incidentally, Lazzaro did not exult. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You did something really reckless—something really stupid and dangerous—something that could have destroyed everything—- ALBUS: I know. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The sploosh had saved Zero's life, but it was now destroying him from the inside. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Zero had destroyed the things that mattered most to me—my pieces of the past, my ornament and my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If, however, something destroys this enzyme or interferes with its action, the person exposed to malathion receives the full force of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The place had been completely destroyed and was deserted. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why does he have to stay up all night, grinding his dashers and destroying people’s property? Why can’t he go to sleep, like any decent animal?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He suspected that the Ralston number was really a “blind”—that an operator had been paid to destroy the original log ticket, which revealed the true source of the call. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The division between the countries was going to destroy everyone before the iron monsters could! Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Staying well was a tightrope act for William, and breaking Purple destroyed his balance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That’s what you do with witchcraft; the only way to destroy it is to burn the physical thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Black people somehow adapted to the blasts—the destroyed homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He threatened to keep me from my husband if I did not submit to his whim and destroy a paper that might help me get free. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was pretty sure destroying the whole boat was exactly what Missy wanted to do, and under any other circumstances Magdalys would have happily let her smash an escaping slave ship to smithereens. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You’re out of your mind! The first thing the Marxists are going to do is destroy freedom of the press!” several voices said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By closing one eye and destroying perspective he brought them down within reach so that he could put up his fingers and stroke them. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nico has until sunset—at best. And this entire city is supposedly getting destroyed today.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The shops are closed or destroyed,” I said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man had come in her living room and destroyed her niece. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering the destroyed warehouse, the thick smell of burnt flesh quickens my pulse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is clear that this slave has violated the person of her master, destroyed valuable property, and attempted to run away, all contrary to the laws of our colony.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank told them about Leo’s plan to destroy a weakened Gaia with one massive fiery explosion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I could destroy the airship altogether before it heads off to the warfront. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But still, monsters didn’t usually let themselves get destroyed so easily. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In many instances, the colonizer forces burned fields and stole or destroyed the foods and seeds the people had stored. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Or why my brother Nico has only six days to live. Or why Rome is going to be destroyed.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout much of the Midwest thousands of acres of fine orchards were destroyed by insects now impervious to spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Warburg believes that either radiation or a chemical carcinogen acts by destroying the respiration of normal cells, thus depriving them of energy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It has already conquered my home life, now it’s trying to destroy the Freedom Writers, too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘They proved it on television! Besides, I’m an immortal goddess. You can’t destroy me!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This is because the very act of measuring destroys some of the information we are trying to gather. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dasch vehemently denied that a fear of getting caught and a desire to save his own life played any role in destroying Hitler's secret attack on America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then the workers, foraging ceaselessly through the hot days of summer, will destroy countless caterpillars. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, we would have stolen the cauldron and destroyed it! And so shall I try again, as long as I live!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone thought it a mighty fine idea to destroy all traces of Bantu Education and white oppression.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders says we were cutting class in the bathroom, smoking, destroying property. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Is there really such a thing as home when it’s so easily destroyed? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“General Kallner, if you do not separate the robots as I ask, then I can only demand that all sixty-three be destroyed immediately.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Depends. There was four of those zeppelins, and he destroyed three.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they also destroyed Indigenous farms, gardens, and towns, killing men, women, and children and taking over stores of food in addition to their lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

You have seen so much more of all that is lost when they destroy your body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It felt like something that deserved to be destroyed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But Papa said America destroyed our lives! He said that once.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I would continue to manage my upper-lip hair, and do my best not to constantly run my finger over the tiny patch of hair that was destroying my will to live. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She told him what Nemesis had said: that in six days, Rome would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You destroyed the power of our mistress,” she said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could track down whatever shards he’s collected from all the times he’s destroyed her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The one on the floor that you didn’t destroy.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Both laws epitomized the ethos of the Nationalist government, which pretended to preserve what they were attempting to destroy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you wish to destroy your benefactors? They have food for you, but they cannot give it to you until you do what they want.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She worried for others, warning any who would listen to her: "When the lions' eyes turn red," she told people, "the city will be destroyed." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their destroyed clothes, the ruination of the party, the damage done to the ballroom and the rest of the house—none of this weighed on the minds of the Incorrigibles. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He found himself whirling through eons of time, destroying at random, screaming with rage and pain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Everything was destroyed in the fire! I lost all my papers!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That was the deed which he longed to commit, to destroy the form which he hated! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to get him on board before the back door was destroyed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where, but if we don’t stop it, it’ll end up destroying the whole neighborhood.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that everyone who doesn't follow God's word will be destroyed in a great battle called Armageddon. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow — nobody. understood why — Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“You should have seen it, when the order came through to destroy the stores. Twenty thousand cigarettes. We took whatever we wanted.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

By 1700 this sense of continuity had been destroyed: the moderns knew that they were different from the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When she’d made things better, fixed part of what she had destroyed, maybe then he would understand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At Abagana, they drove past the destroyed Nigerian fleet, a long, long column of burned and blackened vehicles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Trees will fall, and any remaining places where people live will be destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Arianllyn, my betrothed, waits for me in the northern domains, and the sooner Arawn’s cauldron is destroyed, the sooner may I return to her.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Nonsense, they chew them up and spit them out. Their leaders are made, not born. Then they're destroyed. You've always said that. Here you are, Brother." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces of the destroyed willow branches rained down around him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Four of the men went to prison for six months for knowingly destroying or mutilating their cards. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All the monsters had been destroyed or scattered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I have to show them they didn’t destroy me,” he said simply. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, ecologists and archaeologists increasingly agree that the destruction of Native Americans also destroyed the ecosystems they managed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though their directive was to destroy the Shawnee Nation, they fell on the staunchly neutral towns of the Delaware Nation, torturing and killing women and children. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Kino has cut off his own head and destroyed himself. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Red scares and Communist hysteria of the late 1940s and early 1950s destroyed reputations, lives, and livelihoods, as Matilda West’s situation proved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Wintergreen, who also wanted to be a general and who always distorted, destroyed, rejected or misdirected any correspondence by, for or about Colonel Cathcart that might do him credit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The fear was so great that they destroyed the Pequot’s remaining homes and food supplies and forced them to leave their homelands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, blow your little horns, demigods. Soon, the legacy of Rome will be destroyed for the last time!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We were to do no more than destroy these haunts for snipers; this done, our work was complete; the docks should be secure; we were to return and await further orders. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But in the spectacular explosion, five police cars had been destroyed and the captor had fled. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Conor’s breath got heavier still, like he was the one doing the destroying. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Every night the Po-2s dropped thousands of pounds of explosives behind the front lines, destroying enemy camps and supplies and not allowing the enemy soldiers a wink of sleep throughout the entire war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She also destroyed the address books with her friends’ phone numbers, her most treasured love letters and even her photographs of Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to buy some time while I figure out how I can destroy it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I loved Siobhan, and that is why I spent thirty years destroying the Allens, step by step. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He guessed that Esperanza cared less about her daughters than her desire to destroy Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sons had left because it frowned on them; one of them had been destroyed by its ruthlessness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even destroyed, it was a beautiful thing, utterly unlike the rusting iron and steel hulks they tore apart every day. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because there’s a real chance I’m about to destroy him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of thousands of years human beings have been burning and cutting down forests and encouraging domestic animals to graze on and destroy grasslands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to destroy this with the virus in those rigged Artifacts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But luckily our house never got destroyed or anything.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Despite Lawrences own initial doubts, it would produce the fuel for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were not far from Tokyo, which she had heard had been totally destroyed by napalm. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the j Drowned God had destroyed the island in his wroth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Time Suck tore through the wall, destroying the doors and the sign above it in the process. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Then we shall all be destroyed, and cruelty will reign forever.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

During the civil war, Portuguese soldiers came through the village and destroyed all the boats to keep them from being used by Frelimo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once given up, it shall not come to you again. Will you exchange it for an evil cauldron you intend only to destroy?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Encanis ran free and did the work of a thousand demons, destroying and despoiling wherever he went. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the destroyed plane, his body numb. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘I will rip apart your silly net! I will destroy you!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Rondon not only helped brand the cattle but also deftly hunted the jaguars that preyed on them, and the wild pigs that destroyed the crops. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Alex, I know I...completely destroyed your faith in me, so I don’t blame you for asking me,” he says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The revolt against communism that destroyed East Germany finally spread to the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Running 2,700 miles cannot repair hearts that have been destroyed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The mayor had forced her to destroy all of her research, but she’d been able to hold on to the letter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its members destroy art and literature, kill famous figures throughout history, demanding time travel cease or they will dismantle the whole of time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They will take him by the hand, and at the same moment destroy him. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder that the universe, now newly created, will billions of years from now be utterly destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was very little electrical activity in his brain, but now and then the flatlines gave a spooky twitch, as if something continued to struggle inside the boy, some destroyed fragment of his soul. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no love for them. Athena, do you truly think it safest to destroy them?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As it happens, this is the first occasion since the establishment of universities in the thirteenth century on which a philosophical theory was destroyed by a fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“So listen carefully ... if you really want to destroy my house, Joseph, I guess this will be your last chance. Go ahead. Burn everything down to the ground till there’s nothing left but ash.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Evil is not easy to destroy,” she said, “one needs all the help one can get.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him what he must do if he was not to be destroyed. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d never seen it before,” Dr. Strayer said, adding that the challenge of the dual tasks “are designed to destroy most people.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Return to the family," Magistrate Tiger ordered, "and tell them that I want the secret of their happiness put in this box. If they do not do so, have the soldiers destroy their home." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen years old and furiously alive, and in a glimmer of a moment, Sarai saw her hopes both exposed and destroyed, and felt in them the echo of her own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If Newtonianism destroyed the corpuscular philosophy, it greatly strengthened the argument from design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The earth goddess’s dreams were so powerful, they cast shadows across the cave walls—ghastly shifting images of Nazi armies raging across Europe, Japanese planes destroying American cities. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before someone could enter and notice, Celaena swept a foot over the tracks, destroying any trace, and stuffed the flowers into a nearby satchel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"If we knew that, then she could be rooted out and destroyed. Witchophiles all over the world have spent their lives trying to discover the secret Headquarters of The Grand High Witch." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore had passed the job of destroying them to him, and obediently he had continued to chip away at the bonds tying not only Voldemort, but himself, to life! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After the war, the Norkus grave site memorial was destroyed and his body moved to a common grave. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As one of Hoover’s aides said of the director, “If he didn’t like you, he destroyed you.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If only he could hear my thoughts saying, I will destroy you, malfekté. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Baelor the Blessed had ordered all Barth’s writings destroyed when he came to the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I have a hard time believing that all of Travis’s memories—everything he loved, all that he was—don’t exist anymore somewhere. Why would God make such a universe in someone and then destroy it?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As Bigwig stared back at her, he suddenly recalled Holly’s description of the great yellow hrududu that had torn open the earth above the destroyed warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had maliciously broken into the laboratory and systematically destroyed it out of pure malice and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the headline writer intended was ravaged, meaning “damaged” or “destroyed.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here comes eager beaver Phil Resch back with his handy dandy portable little test. Isn’t he clever? He’s going to destroy his own life and mine and possibly yours.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were going to the place where Papa had grown up, and it didn’t look destroyed! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

These voices, these quiet words, these footsteps in the trench behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear of death by which I had been almost destroyed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it seems like a fair and right exchange: saving one life after destroying another. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It s going to be up to you, then. You must destroy him.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Much of Africa was being overlaid by European customs. It seemed—then—that our culture would be destroyed by the outside world. And so Resthaven was created.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A madman has destroyed our treasures. If we do not rebuild Jewry in America, we will die as a people.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Void/zero destroys Aristotle’s neat argument, his refutation of Zeno, and his proof of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Back in France, the government that had abolished slavery was in the process of destroying itself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had discovered one Horcrux, but they had no means of destroying it: The others were as unattainable as they had ever been. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The queen’s eyes gleamed—the way Hannibal the elephant’s did whenever he was unleashed to destroy a fortress. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Aleppo is destroyed,” the soldier says to all of us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wide windows, some even called picture windows, destroyed any sense of being closed in; the bedrooms and beds were spacious and the storage space unbelievable. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And, latest of all, those returned who had passed into Mordor and destroyed the fortresses in the north of the land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He slashed back and forth, destroying the demons one after the other while Small Bob the kitten sat on his shoulder, arching his back and hissing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the explosive power of that projectile had helped destroy Gaia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They charged that Bliss was more concerned about protecting his reputation than admitting the obvious truth: The body of a forty-nine-year-old man in previous good health had been destroyed by infection and starvation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Erastis was working on his own Fragments now, copying sections of the Book no one had read before, to preserve the writings in case the Book was lost—or worse, destroyed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The hedge is destroyed, the rails of the light railway are torn up and rise stiffly in the air in great arches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that certainly changes my mind. Of course I want to live with an animal that eats all my food and destroys my kitchen.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s just so freaking unfair. What kind of person would want to destroy a place where people gather to pray and learn?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One of the French sailors had learned enough Massachusett to inform his captors before dying that God would destroy them for their misdeeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now was not the time for long discussions; now was the moment to destroy the locket once and for all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the event, he was able to take the city only by systematically destroying it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“In the forest there are men waiting to destroy all of our lives. We have fought them as best as we can, but there are too many of them. They are all around the village.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia when the United States bombed Cambodia’s borders to try to destroy the North Vietnamese bases. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she’s so powerful, she can destroy you, too,” Con argued. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even worse, we may have destroyed our very means of fighting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, you fool! I will be remembered as the saviour of Rome. Now keep them away while I destroy Gaia!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She’ll be back to her business self in a second, I’m sure, but it’s nice to see that I haven’t destroyed Old Mom. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It can destroy you or help you heal.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I tell you now, none of us has ever set on a more perilous task. I ask your help, for I mean to attack Annuvin itself to seize I Arawn’s cauldron and destroy it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘Better. I... I have to admit, when I was choking on that poison, I kept thinking about Akhlys, the misery goddess in Tartarus. I almost destroyed her with poison.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, that kid would make a decision that would save or destroy the gods forever. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They burned and looted the town, destroyed the granary, and even dug up graves and mutilated corpses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand Liza, who surely loved her family as deeply as did her husband, was not destroyed or warped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to have to work out how to open this thing before we can destroy it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They destroyed communication lines, supply depots, and other important enemy installations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“However, we should not congratulate ourselves too heartily. You destroyed the diary and I the ring, but if we are right in our theory of a seven-part soul, four Horcruxes remain.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It read: Scimitar of Kampl, destroyed in the Battle of the Labyrinth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The library was destroyed and so Persian literature doesn’t go back much further than that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Whether I die or just wake up the next morning as if nothing happened, the fact of the death will destroy me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"He's not fit. You know he's not. He's mad. He'll destroy the Empire." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a day of search and destroy, he was dead tired at night. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

These were appalling scenes, compounded in January 1944 by the retreating German armies looting and destroying the historic galleries, mansions and palaces of the tsars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She was talking about maybe destroying his life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to let Luke destroy our camp, kill hundreds of demigods, and then attack Olympus? You’re going to bring down the entire world so you can get what you want?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first one could have been lost or destroyed or sent to the wrong place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And, worst of all, the storehouse and all the food in it has been destroyed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At this point, if Lee remains and continues to defend Petersburg, his forces will be destroyed by Grant’s Army of the Potomac, which grows stronger in men and guns with each passing week. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Our old quarters have been destroyed by the bombings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“It is all right. We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I would destroy myself if I’d actually had to give something up before leading this traveler’s existence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And when her cursed, evil silence polluted our swamp, I thought God had sent me a sacrifice to make myself, one last example of the evil that hides itself which I could destroy and purify.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In this way Kaan would both acquire a dominant position in the Maya realm and destroy its enemy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s dissembling would be exploited by Strauss and Robb to discredit virtually his every word, becoming a linchpin of the campaign to destroy him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

El Patron was capable of destroying a person who angered him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the storehouse of Lady ’Stache Off that had exploded, destroying much of the compound. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Could we be so desperate for drinkable water that we’re willing to destroy the very machines that could create it, just to get that first sip? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

While you fumble your way north, trying to find me, my armies will destroy your precious camps—first the Romans, then the others. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The ravenous Kyklops in the cave destroyed him last in his feast of men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he found out I got in and he didn’t, he destroyed everything he’d ever made. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I do not believe all men are destroyed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if Democritus’ work had not been almost completely destroyed, there would have been calculus by the time of Christ.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Third is the Law of Conservation, which says ‘energy cannot be destroyed nor created.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Locri was destroyed by one of his legates, the Locrians were not avenged by him, nor was the arrogance of that legate corrected, all this arising from his easygoing nature. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When he knew what he had become,” Edward said quietly, “he rebelled against it. He tried to destroy himself. But that’s not easily done.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I will not let you possess me or destroy my life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Monster Slayer used those arrows to destroy the monsters that had been devouring the people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thus do the Augurs' visions bear fruit. The Emperor is dead, and a new power must rise, lest the Empire be destroyed. “ An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And maybe I should be worried about how much that would destroy me, but right now all I want to do is kiss him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When a leukocyte spots an anomaly—a bit of virus, say—it destroys the infected or contaminated cell immediately. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Despite your visions of a perfect world under an empire, your rulers and politicians are quick to destroy each other. So are assassins, I suppose.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mostly these errors would have been such that the new macromolecule could not reproduce itself and eventually would have been destroyed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about Harp and Gully and how much I wanted to destroy them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the Chandrian killed my troupe, they destroyed every piece of family and home I had ever known. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe the rails had been the sides of a bridge and the middle planks had been removed or destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Those with elliptical crossing orbits tended to collide and destroy themselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lee Chong came in with his gift, Darling was deliberately and happily destroying Hazel’s only pair of rubber boots while her happy masters applauded her. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just dead—it had been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You came! You ready for your little plastic foosball men to get destroyed?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His precious motorcycle, his only means of transportation—four feet didn’t count—was destroyed. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So you’re worried one of us will endanger the quest, maybe accidentally destroy the world?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He could reimburse the government for all the people and property he had destroyed and still have enough money left over to continue buying Egyptian cotton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They’re all destroyed now anyway. All that work, burned to ashes or melted. I should’ve known. Nothing in this city changes, and it never will.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As Booth sees it, Lincoln is an evil tyrant who wants to destroy the South and its way of life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, these concepts would eventually destroy Aristotelian philosophy after its long reign. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Emmanuel Roth arrives in Geneva on 29 January 2016 to destroy the Large Hadron Collider, the site of the groundbreaking discovery of gravitons, without which time travel would be impossible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

That voice told them to destroy everything related to sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ebola virus destroyed an animal’s internal organs, and the carcass deteriorated abruptly after death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now you must move quickly. Gaia rises to destroy your camp.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The heavy water equipment had been destroyed, dealing a serious blow to German bomb research. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the following days he busied himself destroying all trace of his passage through the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There are much worse things, you know. The destroyers: they work to see how much can be lost, how much can be forgotten. They destroy the feeling people have for each other. ” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At some point in the past, she’d inhaled a collection of ancient prophecies that had supposedly been destroyed around the fall of Rome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Frank waded forward, destroying everything in his path. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until later, when I was full- grown and Hrothgar was an old, old man, that I settled my soul on destroying him—slowly and cruelly. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, if we destroy too much of the natural world, we shall be depriving those who live after us of much beauty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They destroy the ground cover so that the birds and animals of the ferns and mosses have no home. I would never let one on my mountain—never.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the crime of destroying the body of Prince Jones, I did not believe in forgiveness. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By 1839, so many of the Chinese were addicts that China’s desperate government destroyed twenty thousand chests of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while he had watched Matty, Kira, and the puppy enter Forest, he had been able to see, too, that Forest was shifting, moving, thickening, and preparing to destroy them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And it is hardly out of the question that we might destroy ourselves tomorrow. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Martians use a heat ray to destroy everything in their path. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the woods on the right, the Hunters sent a volley of silver arrows into the enemy line, destroying twenty or thirty dracaenae, but more marched behind them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the knowledge I sought would destroy me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Smith had indeed marched on to Concord, possessed the town, destroyed such military stores as had not yet been hidden. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t realize there are earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanic eruptions destroying my brain and my heart and my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, I don’t even know if I was there—because I don’t remember what happened to the suitcases once they were destroyed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Nazis took our names and numbers and made new documents for us to replace the ones that had been destroyed before they marched us into Dachau. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Nonsense, they chew them up and spit them out. Their leaders are made, not born. Then they're destroyed. You've always said that. Here you are, Brother." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything had gone wrong with the ferry job, his mission was to try again to destroy the heavy water before it sailed for Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth, that the Smoke had been destroyed by an armed invasion, seemed too far-fetched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

You have to find the source, to destroy it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I slashed and hacked, destroying everything in my path, but even I was getting tired, and I couldn’t be everywhere at once. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Just try not to destroy it. I have many chores to attend to, so I may not be around much. There should be plenty of toys and hobbies here to keep you busy.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Dry your socks, Michael, or the bunions will destroy you entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But just how far they will go to destroy the mark Jeanine Matthews left on this city, I don’t know. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had the responsibility more than all the other gods together of postponing as long as possible the day of doom, Ragnarok, when heaven and earth would be destroyed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that this was jealousy, intended to discredit and destroy me as a tennis player, and it bothered me and made me angry. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

During these fights, we destroyed most of the furniture and threw the mattresses out in the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We would laugh as we destroyed their buckets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They destroy the shacks, reduce them to flat pieces of wood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Frazier says it was all destroyed, and this destruction evidences the terribleness of our capturers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I concede the point. You may perhaps be useful. And yet... your fatal flaw may destroy us as well as yourself.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insect larvae, or undesired fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They would destroy the magic he felt, the sweet sting of onions in his eyes, the glow of Olanna’s skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But misfortunes are commonplace, Taylor, and relative. Look at the misfortune Nick Yew has endured this year. Or Ross Wilcox. How is destroying your classmate's property going to help your father?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After they destroyed the temples, the soldiers roamed the country searching for monks and forced them to convert to the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the king knew this kind of book still existed in his library, he’d have it all destroyed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s so strange, don’t you think? I wonder if someone destroyed his notebooks or letters?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’d given the Greeks a fair chance...right up until the Argo II had started destroying her city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The feelings were strong enough to destroy one human boy, but he fought through them, concentrating on the knowledge of himself and his task. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Nothing I can think of. If only we knew where the true path was...even a serewood couldn't destroy the true path. Just hide it from us, lure us off of it...." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It said: “These things will destroy you. Turn to me.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“So the Titans lost. Fine! That was part of the plan to wake Gaea! Now the Earth Mother and her giants will destroy the mortal world, and we will totally feast on demigods!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some disgruntled American—a retired veteran—referred to me as “a thing that had to be destroyed.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But Scott de Martinville had no way of playing the recording back: running a stylus back over the indentations in the paper would destroy them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Their portrayal in the press the next morning as unthinking hotheads bent on destroying Durham only confirmed black residents’ belief that they could not get a fair hearing in the city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When family members fussed over how good the elephant was, Vincent destroyed it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Cyclopes! I tell you, Stheno, when I destroy Neptune and take over the oceans, we will renegotiate the Cyclopes’ labor contract. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Such was my sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans destroyed most of the city’s antiaircraft defenses in a single day, their bombs setting fire to oil storage tanks and demolishing buildings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A single spider may destroy in her life of 18 months an average of 2000 insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Away from the square and to the one place the fire did not destroy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“The thing has somehow got to be found and destroyed without delay. Gwydion will plan a new search from Caer Cadarn. It would seem our work has just begun.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere else in northwestern Europe the early records, the traditions, the songs and stories, were obliterated by the priests of Christianity, who felt a bitter hatred for the paganism they had come to destroy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also has to cut out some sections that he destroyed when he kicked the chest on The Day Our Life Fell Apart. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He and El Patron sat in adjoining wheelchairs and cackled over old memories— rivals they had destroyed and governments they had overthrown. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is full of death and suffering. I understand why Gwydion wants to destroy it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling shut the door, which, despite all Charles’s efforts, still did not close quite flush, they remembered the bear and wondered how they could keep the wild creatures from destroying the cabin in their absence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though he had learned of my experience with Bledsoe's letters and was trying to use that knowledge to destroy not only me but the whole Brotherhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another reason for the strange faces was that the parts of the brain that control facial expression had also been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad,” I said, “he’s just a sea creature. A really nice sea creature. You can’t destroy him.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It was so sweet then,” Ma said, “so sweet. Promise me that when I die you will destroy all of this.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Like Claudette, he had vowed to study law in the North and then return home to “destroy everything segregated I could find.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It allows them to rationalize using violence against the other and destroying their culture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now they just had to defeat the giants, preferably without destroying the city of Rome, and get out of here to find their friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, the longer he waited, the more danger there was that an early freeze would destroy the crop. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the thing about President Roosevelt: he had personally made every decision that had destroyed their lives. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Next, the breeding areas for Aedes aegypti were systematically destroyed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A few Cherokee towns that had been hit hardest by rangers responded by attacking squatter settlements, destroying several in 1776. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to give me another chance to destroy him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The new leader, Sheikh Mujib Rahman, recently released from prison, asked countries for building materials to replace more than one million houses that had been destroyed in the war. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It sat there tightly and grew, while he thought he was destroying it by fasting and penitence. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wish, this childish wish had grown so strong within him: to find peace by destroying his body. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan’s power to make war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said in his note he was going to destroy it, didn’t he?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No matter how kindly he treated her now that he had destroyed her, it made no sense. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could report to the White House with confidence that the operation to destroy Daniel Ellsberg was most definitely feasible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The German coastal batteries were destroyed even before the landing; a small bridgehead has already been formed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Why was Mr. Singh destroying the wonderful relaxed feeling she had had only minutes ago? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tommen’s rule is bolstered by all of the alliances that my lord father built so carefully, but soon enough she will destroy them, every one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma had said it would be healing to write and destroy all the names of people I disliked at Central High: teachers, students, anyone who I thought had wronged me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zorn means “finished” or “destroyed,” in the sense of some terrible catastrophe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, after we had lavished so much time and effort and money on it, it should never have let one of its bolts snap and destroy itself and maybe kill Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either one of these things is dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sell cigarettes without the proper authority and your body can be destroyed. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It read: And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But what happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world, where spraying destroys not only the insects but their principal enemy, the birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they were lost in France, or perhaps she later destroyed them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought such magazines had all been destroyed, but here was one, left over, in a Commander’s private study, where you’d least expect to find such a thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing's for sure, destroying those supplies is not going to be as simple as it looks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the Iliad he is called “the Sminthian,” the Mouse-god, but whether because he protected mice or destroyed them no one knows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momentarily brilliant as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, they are heated and destroyed by friction at a height of about 100 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mm-m. Well, boy, gamma rays will kill you instantly. They’ll destroy your brain. That is a fact you must know and remember. Naturally, you don’t want to destroy yourself.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And all had only one thought in mind: destroy the intruders and protect Ignorance. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In its application the familiarity it causes with suffering destroys in the breast of the officer all sympathetic feeling”: The words of the Auburn physician seem to me to express a timeless principle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The tortoise told the man, “I am sent by the Lord. I bring you news of doom. Your country, Southern Sudan, will be destroyed.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court, said Wallace, was “stealing little by little as a thief in the night to destroy local government.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

How long ago the Greeks tried to destroy everything Jewish. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In spite of the glider disaster, the British and Americans were still determined to destroy the Vemork heavy water plant in Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were warmer than her destroyed grippies, she realized, and were better for hiking. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Yossarian blazed with hatred and wrath when he saw he was the victim of an irresponsible joke that had destroyed his sleep and reduced him to a whimpering hulk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dark, ruined ships appear, scuttled or destroyed, one with its bow shorn away, a second flickering as it burns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Love like theirs turns two into one—so when my dad died, it was like ripping one entity in half, destroying my mom too. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I think about those huge hands and about how, if he could crush me, he could destroy her—tiny, fragile Megan. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The tornado destroyed the walkway so we went through the water,” JimmyTrotter said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One moment Grandma was confidently offering assurance; the next, Hugo was destroyed and Seth and Grandma were captured. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Why are you trying to destroy Jamie? I thought you were his friend. Kind of.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yet he couldn’t stop thinking ahead to the day when the owl dens would be destroyed by bulldozers. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, news bulletins announced that military defenses had been destroyed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Habib had opened a small dry goods store in downtown Kabul to support the family after the opium crops had been destroyed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Chairman Mao told us we would never succeed at building a strong socialist country until we destroyed the “Four Olds” and established the “Four News.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early April 1966, Charlie Company, along with Alpha and Bravo Companies, was sent out on a prolonged “search and destroy” mission, Operation Abilene. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If these people got to the Flat Trans before someone shut it down or destroyed it... The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

That includes interviews with the four or five laboratory workers who cared for the animals, which have since been destroyed as a precaution, and any other people who were near the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Bestemama, he sat most of the time quietly in a chair, saying very little and totally overwhelmed, I imagine, by the raucous rabble who were destroying his neat and polished home. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

To destroy you a thousand times in the name of Mother Night! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The school Fazlullah had destroyed was a primary school, not even a school that taught teenagers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What, and destroy a perfectly good aircraft? Certainly not.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the constant search and destroy, there was always a steady flow of fresh troops from North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe now that the Smoke was destroyed, catching the last few runaways wasn’t worth the trouble. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Large amounts of real estate and other property had been destroyed in the war, industry was disorganized, and hundreds of thousands of men had been killed or maimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to work together, or Gaea will destroy us both.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Thanks to his Jewish advisors. It's all the Jews' fault, you know. All part of their plan to destroy the German Reich." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have called you here because she must be stopped before she does more harm to this world. She has been playing with terrible powers, and soon she will destroy more than can be saved.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Randomness is not easy to obtain when playing cards, either, since shuffling a deck two or three times is not enough to destroy whatever order it might have. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Going to destroy our camp. Couldn’t you stop them?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“In those days, no one thought in terms of one bomb destroying a whole city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen quickly became committed to SNCC’s nonviolent ideals: always meet hatred with love, and strive to eliminate evil, not destroy the evildoer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His visits had thrilled her, his departures destroyed her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had seen what that had done to other kids, how hard they fought to stay together and how destroyed they were when they were inevitably pulled apart. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One day I returned home from tennis to find that my father, in his rage for my not working, had destroyed several of my books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bacteria and a host of other microorganisms could find their way into cultures from people’s unwashed hands, their breath, and dust particles floating through the air, and destroy them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There has to be one,” Liddy said, “unless Fielding destroyed it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Before curious or superstitious townsfolk destroyed what evidence remained. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After it is over, Pickett comes outside and says bitterly: “That man destroyed my Division.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the last fifty years the silence of much of the country has been destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His walls had been the strongest walls ever built, but they, too, had been easily destroyed by the Jade River. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I did not know why I destroyed those dolls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about destroying this horrible prison for sea creatures. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Slash was just fourteen, the merchant ship he worked on was destroyed in a storm. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what would happen if I ever lost you. It would destroy me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One hand destroying the letter in his fist, the other pressed against his eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Because she had no Locusts Stand I. Because Chacko said she had destroyed enough already. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The factionless plan to destroy, not only the important figures in Erudite, but all the data they have. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing he cannot eat, nothing he will not destroy. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m quite tall enough to destroy you, Bacchus! You gods, always hiding behind your mortal heroes, trusting the fate of Olympus to the likes of these.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Often blocked or destroyed by the tumults of the Mountain’s furnaces, always that road was repaired and cleared again by the labours of countless orcs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Many Japanese had been killed or injured and their homes had been destroyed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The herd searched the forest for the hunter’s magic plant and destroyed every single one of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My brother, it seemed, had finally overcome enough of his panic to warn my mother, but not before more than half the house had been destroyed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Gaia destroys the gods, we will divide up the remnants of the mortal world!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Over time the heaving will destroy whatever is built on top of it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The women thought Pentheus a wild beast, a mountain lion, and they rushed to destroy him, his mother first. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only, it doubled the number of sea stars and destroyed the oysters.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, the previous victors didn't have the Capitol looking for a way to destroy them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Why am I so drawn to someone who could destroy me? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The bombing seems to have destroyed the hearing in his left ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘She intends to destroy the upper world, not give it to anyone.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The Shetani destroyed his body, but I’m the one that took his life.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was now bulldogging a fatally stricken F-8 that was beginning to break up inside itself, beginning to destroy its own vitals. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the idea was exhausted, she kept a single print of each shot and destroyed the negatives. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d had grand visions of sabotaging the Whisperer, destroying its computers all by herself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why my mother destroys everything I make. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then I remember my mother saying that if a burn's severe, the victim might not even feel pain because the nerves would be destroyed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The 125th M. M. Raskova Guards had spent the winter in a village practically destroyed by the Germans. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, having begun this more modest, contemplative life, she considered destroying the messy pile of sketches. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Of course, they were too frightened to move, and had to sit in their bush while the great elephants ate as many pumpkins as they could manage and destroyed many more. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Most of the chariots had been completely destroyed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I must have destroyed it so that no one would learn what I wish to keep hidden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I got your letter and destroyed it. Nothing.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had been sure he’d destroyed any chance with her last night when he had summoned Gray. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Quickly, she took the photos of her father with the Americans off the walls and destroyed them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And so, since we will not be destroying these heroes ... I imagine we should honor them. Let the triumph celebration begin!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was far too dangerous for any sane person to wield; her gifts might have destroyed her by this point. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A herd animal such as man would acquire a higher survival factor through this; an owl or a cobra would be destroyed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Creativity. Clarity. Cleverness. And penmanship! Poor handwriting can destroy your chances to win,” Mrs. Grayson replied, looking stern. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Seething, Conor looked again at the second monster destroying the parsonage. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The bad news,” Jillson said, “is that what S.Q. found—a curious piece of paper—was destroyed before he could read it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the virus was able to destroy a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they have destroyed another aircraft and there is another Special Duties pilot stuck here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, settlers organized units of irregular fighters to terrorize and destroy Indigenous communities by killing unarmed women, children, and elders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose. For now. You may climb down your ladder to New Rome, daughter of Athena. Please try not to destroy my town.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“This room didn’t get destroyed by those bombs,” Diana said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“What I want to know,” Thalia said, looking at Bianca, “is how you destroyed one of the zombies. There are a lot more out there somewhere. We need to figure out how to fight them.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace, I have known the bloody flux to destroy whole armies when left to spread unchecked. The seneschal is right. We cannot have the Astapori in Meereen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Zeus had destroyed an entire hotel to eliminate two demigod children—just to save his own skin, because he was scared of a prophecy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For they had the power to use a paper doll, first to destroy his integrity and then as an excuse for killing him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he made it up the elevator—and I had no doubt he would, one way or another—he would destroy the throne room, the center of the gods’ power. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He said that it refers to a report that is critical of how they treated Luke. And there’s a mention that the report should be destroyed.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When she found her voice, all she said was, “How fast can you destroy this lab?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Percy wasn’t sure what the old seer had meant about Frank’s family history—his great-grandfather destroying camp, his Argonaut ancestor, and the bit about a burned stick controlling Frank’s life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The restlessness of his blood had destroyed his dream, defeated him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t talked at all about what Mr. Ali had said the other week, about us having to destroy all our work. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s just something that makes sure my TV doesn’t get destroyed by crazy power cuts.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the metal cooled the mold was destroyed and the bell was prepared for shipment to the building. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The skin and eyeballs turned yellow, as red blood cells were destroyed, causing the bile pigment bilirubin to accumulate in the body; nose, gums, and intestines began bleeding; and the patient vomited stale, black blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He was the son of the man who had destroyed Khazaria and killed Saba. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yet pesticides may well destroy substantial quantities of plankton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

More than anything, she wanted to destroy him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how, but these tiny little things you can’t see can destroy a city,” Papa went on. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was then I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips trembled and I was certain he would cry, I would have to destroy him from pure disgust, but he held it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

An awful quiet spell destroyed all his practice. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most outspoken members of the community refused to internalize the contradiction, openly equating the foreign racists America was moved to destroy with the American racists it chose to abide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He could barely move his feet from all the destroyed rubbish on the floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Or would she just take one look and destroy it again? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“One cannot remove the worm without destroying the apple.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So the next time we saw a swastika spray painted on a wall or newspaper stand we could represent ourselves, the Freedom Writers, without destroying property. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Let the ghosts of Pompeii destroy this Greek statue. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” A-Fu said proudly, “we decided we would trick the Green Tiger into getting so angry that he would destroy himself in the well. And our plan worked! ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I was not the one who destroyed what was precious to you. There is real evil in the world, and I am not it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hatred continued to spill out into the broadcasting ether until Monath could stand it no longer: “Mr. Fischer, you are destroyed in your mind,” he said, and Fischer’s microphone was rendered mute. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them drilled the hole...and destroyed their phone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then he snared them—not too many: as many as he wanted and not as many as would frighten them all away or destroy the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when the boys went to the river to play, I took all of the spoons and destroyed them. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for USIA, it maintained that the tank had not come apart because of any negligence on its part, but rather was destroyed by villainous Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Every town that we took had been destroyed by the enemy as they retreated. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard too many stories of young girls destroyed by what passes as tourism in this country. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At very first he had felt a shyness, but that was gone now, and the sense of triumph at destroying Abra’s control made him laugh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In only two weeks it destroyed the entire country. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once the Germans captured the Volga River and destroyed the Soviet Union’s defenses, they could head north to get at Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He can’t destroy it, not that bowl, not the Choosing Ceremony, not the symbol of my triumph. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Because I need to understand how to control my abilities before they destroy everyone I care about. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he had said “I will go,” and that made a real thing too. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Sauron’s hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Exalted Cyclops, a housepainter named Jack Murray, who had immigrated from West Germany, delivered long, wandering diatribes against the Jews, who, he claimed, had destroyed his first country and now were demolishing his second. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The classical civilization that created them disintegrated, and the library itself was deliberately destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both destroyed property, but what was being sprayed was way differ-ent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of destroying London and its suburbs, as the Martians did in the novel, Koch’s aliens would create mayhem in the New York City area. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This chemical, like parathion and its relatives, destroys the protective enzyme cholinesterase. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We attempted to prove his innocence through a motion for DNA testing, but because the state had destroyed the relevant biological evidence, the motion was denied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When they built the expressways and had urban renewal, they destroyed a lot of that housing and built these high-rise buildings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t destroy evidence. You just splattered it all over!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“If you try to resist or escape,” Riker yelled, “you will be destroyed.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“But if their house was destroyed —” “They didn’ keep their gold in the house, boy! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It obviously wasn’t functioning from the old GPS satellites—they’d all been destroyed in the radiation holocaust of the sun flares. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lawrence feared that the failure at Y-12 would destroy the army’s confidence in the entire bomb project, with billions of dollars—indeed, the entire war effort—hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The burnt district was over four miles long and one mile wide; 17,500 buildings and 73 miles of street had been destroyed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I had destroyed all this, and he would never feel the same about me again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

David would never trust her again, not after she’d destroyed his home, his family. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Very urgent that heavy water be destroyed. Hope this can be done without too serious consequences. Send our best wishes for good luck in the work.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he wanted to be with me; but then the boat service would, most likely, be the one which would destroy the ... the ... the ... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His old life, the gods, and the entire world might be destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Panic of 1907 destroyed his Wild West and forced him to hire himself out to circuses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We find the computers that control the simulation and destroy the data,” I say. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t destroy things much. I’m a son of Hephaestus.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And his lordship's good name was destroyed for ever. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes remained closed, but her voice spoke in Percy’s mind: So this is the demigod who destroyed my son Kronos. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I probably would have destroyed my room right then if I hadn’t headed for the bathtub. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been destroyed to make room for the Doors of Death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As well believe you could destroy a tree by tearing off a single leaf! Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her traps were destroyed by jackals, honey badgers, and the caracal—she was certain of its identity now. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there's nothing and no one else left to destroy. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But a closer look at the data destroys this theory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If we can accomplish the integration of the Earth without obliterating cultural differences or destroying ourselves, we will have accomplished a great thing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, my dad is the all-powerful evil Titan lord who wants to destroy Western Civilization. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A Roman was supposed to destroy her enemies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“So you think Thirteen was really destroyed? I mean, Bonnie and Twill were right about the footage of the mockingjay,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd set fire to the radio station, destroying it and the newspaper offices housed in the same building. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a bold move on my grandmother's part, and though we could all revel in the romance of it, it was a love affair that destroyed multiple lives and scandalized an entire family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“First off, don’t be concerned about destroying evidence. They would never have gotten fingerprints off the drill, not after that length of time and with it being exposed to the elements.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As near as I could figure, it took Charybdis about three minutes to suck up and destroy everything within a half-mile radius. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The floor began to tremble beneath my feet, and I felt my knees go weak as a fresh horde of fetterlings charged through the destroyed main entrance. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

More likely I stole his last chance at life, condemned him, by destroying the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Glaucoma. It’s a disease that destroys your vision.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, Charlie Company was out in the bush, carrying out the new aggressive US strategy of “search and destroy.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mam tells him he’s going to destroy the shoes altogether but he pounds away with the hammer, driving the nails through the rubber pieces and into the shoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I knew I was destroying evidence,” I confessed. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to mind that very much, since it had also destroyed Othor's murderous corpse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He knew that the next child of the Big Three gods—Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades^—who turned sixteen was prophesied to either save or destroy Mount Olympus. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had been ordered out many times on “search and destroy” missions after planes had sprayed the herbicide Agent Orange to kill any vegetation in their path. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Before I even realize, I’m darting across the street, a queasy feeling in my stomach like I ruined everything—that last brushstroke that always destroys the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“A guaranteed—and equal—place in whatever government forms after Erudite is destroyed, and full control over Erudite data after the attack. Clearly—” “What are you going to do with the Erudite data?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were terrible men, immensely strong, and such lovers of war and violence that they were completely destroyed by their own hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the earthquake had not destroyed, the fires had. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I renounce the gods! What have they ever done for me? I will see them destroyed. I will serve Kronos.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The last time I stood in this spot and stared up at this ceiling, I was on a mission to destroy the simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since then countless campaigns to save the rainforest have driven home its lesson: development in tropical forests destroys both forests and their developers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most, if not all, of our planes and boats were destroyed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that in order to prove how unnecessary it was, I was going to destroy it as soon as I got home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to make something cool out of her destroyed house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their home destroyed, the Baudelaires had to recuperate from their terrible loss in the Poe household, which was not at all agreeable. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yet more than twenty percent has been destroyed because of logging and wildfires.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was destroyed when I got mad; they, on the other hand, seemed energized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I even got a look at him, it would destroy me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Why, I shall have to destroy her,” said Mrs. Coulter, “to prevent another Fall….Why didn’t I see this before? It was too large to see....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“July First, the Kalends of July, sacred to Juno. That’s when Mother wants to destroy those stupid demigods and really rub it in Juno’s face. Besides, I’m not paying overtime for those gladiator ghosts!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It is just a matter of time,” Shin told me, before North Korea decides to destroy the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Gunters were mobbing them and destroying their ships and equipment on sight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was going to sever the lifelong connection between her and the golden monkey and use the power released by that to destroy her daughter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The Germans could destroy all of London if they succeed,” Wilson said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We destroyed Hoover Middle last week, thirty-two to four, and we won’t stop, can’t stop, till we claim the championship trophy. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

One issue outlined horrific prophecies, graphically illustrated, of what Armstrong predicted would be World War III, when the United States and Great Britain would be destroyed by a United States of Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Don Horacio’s meeting group has been told to destroy anything that would make them guilty. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Replacements for the massive coal- and oil-burning wrecks that he and his crew worked to destroy all day long: gull-white sails, carbon-fiber hulls, and faster than anything except a maglev train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what to think. But two destroyed houses ” I began to sift through the wreckage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My parents didn't know any of my test-taking drama at Sequoia because I destroyed the evidence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I trace my infinity charm with my finger, thinking of my phone in the hands of a stranger, or maybe even destroyed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They rested on their oars, and Medea kneeling prayed to the hounds of Hades to come and destroy him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the porcelain, Frank felt a twinge of guilt for having destroyed so many pieces the day of the funeral. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Percy—” “Destroy with a hero’s final breath. That makes sense now. Daedalus died to destroy the Labyrinth. But what was the last—” “And lose a love to worse than death!’ The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The work was especially meaningful to him: as a firefighter, he was saving lives and property not killing and destroying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“There was only one thing wrong about the location. Why didn’t you set it in Berlin and destroy Mr. Hitler?” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And even as far away as Ithaka you’ve heard of Agamemnon—how he came home, how Aigisthos waited to destroy him but paid a bitter price for it in the end. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homes in the Lithuanian Neighborhood destroyed by arson. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old woman had destroyed his family so thoroughly it couldn’t have been accidental. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was only one way to destroy them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would be destroyed and humiliated in these battles. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The Nazis destroyed this place. It must have been beautiful.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It means the destroying of an old system, and its replacement with a new system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wights and hollows failed again, this time they’d destroy a lot more than five hundred miles of empty forest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And if they couldn’t do that in five days, Rome would be destroyed, and Hazel’s brother, Nico, would die. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Attendant upon these beliefs was his conviction that the family had known very well the persons who destroyed them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"We destroy him, once and for all. With his presence gone, life will return to normal." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of our seclusion, the lodges and all their contents were burned, destroying our last links to childhood, and a great ceremony was held to welcome us as men to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the wicked ones had harmed his mummy, then even his ba was dead, for a man’s soul could not live if his former body were destroyed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to lie in bed like an invalid while Luke was out there planning to destroy the Western world. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen many mountains that even a world war had not destroyed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They sang softly, though, so that their music would contribute to the quiet, not destroy it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Ghohg the Evil One is gone and his palace has been destroyed, taking a few thousand diplomats and ministers with it, the whole goblin kingdom will be thrown into confusion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Like their battle might rattle the universe until everything was destroyed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Hundred years ago, when hollows first born, they strike my home first. Everything destroy. All in village killed. Old woman. Baby. All.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed like he was good at everything—he helped Theo with calculus, he could destroy chemistry without blinking, he slept through his A+ in English, and everything else seemed to bore him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

For if Sauron of old destroyed the gardens, the Enemy today seems likely to wither all the woods. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Always the results were the same, some crossed, some stayed, some were not men at all but demons, and those he destroyed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Atlas told his servants to take the kittens away. Maybe they destroyed the cats and they were reborn in Tartarus? I don’t know.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t any chance someone’s destroyed it since Kreacher had it?” asked Ron hopefully. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Throughout Pakistan, more than two thousand people drowned, millions lost their homes, and seven thousand schools were destroyed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bust had extracted a terrible toll, and the list of people and institutions that had been destroyed read like a horrible casualty list. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the lowest level, the low stone wall around the arena field itself was partially destroyed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘But what then would happen, if the Ruling Ring were destroyed, as you counsel?’ asked Glóin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The brute devastated the land, destroyed the cattle, killed the men who tried to kill it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Gate is destroyed,’ said Imrahil, ‘and where now is the skill to rebuild it and set it up anew?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘My son, what you are attempting - shadow-travel across the world, carrying the statue of Athena - it may well destroy you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ralph, though, hung in his own time, in the many times he’d wanted more than anything to destroy his father’s world. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground troops, reinforced by heavy air support, destroyed the North Vietnamese sanctuaries, and confiscated weapons, rice, and medical equipment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Well, if I destroy this so-called knowledge about squirrels, no one will ever know it existed.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The infernal machines passed within a few blocks from my house...and I didn’t think to step outside to see them. After New York was destroyed we all went to bed.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Usually these forums discuss such things as a storm and whether or not it is coming, how to make a spring suit, and how to enlarge my house without destroying the life in the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every quasar explosion millions of worlds—some with life and the intelligence to understand what is happening—may be utterly destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, I said, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid and we must be prepared, in the near future, to use that weapon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the year ad 70 the Roman Army, exasperated by years of rebellion in Judaea, sacked the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the Israelites’ Temple there. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They were using his having killed Bessie to kill him for his having killed Mary, to cast him in a light that would sanction any action taken to destroy him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the first, it was destroyed by that giant wind that the Japanese began to call Kamikaze. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned its terrible fourth head to see and destroy whatever the impudent thing was that dared to tweak its tail. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d destroyed cultures, destroyed invaluable knowledge, destroyed so much of what had once been bright and good. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the delicate camaraderie they are building. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He expected them to fear that the Earthling combination of ferocity and spectacular weaponry might eventually destroy part or maybe all of the innocent Universe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting, and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You spy a twenty-four- hour road trip in a minivan. Hip because road trips always are; tragic because the gas we’re guzzling will destroy the planet.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Indeed, its existence is so ephemeral that medical researchers are unable, without special procedures, to sample it before the body has destroyed it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It means that some of the molecules in his cells are destroyed, so that the cells no longer work normally and cannot grow and divide. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some of the 46th’s aircraft were already destroyed—and some were still on fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then we will march south to destroy the Romans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Each key must be used only once and then destroyed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“As I’m sure you’re aware, five of us received letters. The mayor asked us all to destroy them.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If you care about him,” he said, “then walk away. Don’t destroy his life.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He feels ill at ease with the praise, just as he had when he was a child and destroyed his drawing of the cat, the clay figure of the elephant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Recently, a Nazi spy in America, William Sebold, had gone to the FBI and blown the cover off Hitler's existing spy ring, destroying it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The commander also reported that his forces had thus far destroyed about ten of the principal Cherokee towns, along with several smaller villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, that procession of terrifying figures was destroying Barrabas’s nervous system. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am one of the giants you are so proud of. You wished me to be more warlike? Perhaps I will start by destroying you!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not only had it killed every avatar in the sector, it had even destroyed Castle Anorak, a fortress that, until now, had proven itself to be indestructible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Do I realize that nitrogen fertilizers are destroying fish life by fostering an overgrowth of algae? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Separatist leaders quickly announced their determination to destroy the Cherokee Nation. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

While the Allies eventually wanted to destroy the Nazi spy networks, for now it was more useful to keep them talking—and to have Elizebeth listen in. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Because of the third law that I had mentioned, Conservation. ‘Energy cannot be destroyed or created, merely lost or found.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster—the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rival rebel armies had destroyed the city, and soldiers roamed the streets. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I would have rathered you had killed two hundred Jews and not destroyed such valuable assets,” said Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aitken, a house painter also known as “John the Painter,” figured that if he could destroy all the rope being made at Portsmouth, the Royal Navy’s warships could not sail. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this year has taught me anything, it’s that grief can destroy a person. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All it took was her slithering her way into my life, into my deepest fears and secrets, pretending to be my friend, only to destroy every piece of me I had left. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I would destroy these treats, and then, if time and opportunity allowed, I would find Nadia's supply and substitute good ones for the drugged ones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So you see,” she said, “I can betray him easily. I can lead you to where he’s taking my daughter’s dæmon, and you can destroy Asriel, and the child will walk unsuspecting into your hands.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I did not believe you would destroy yourself from grief or rejected love. Thus I supposed that you only feigned your death,” she said, with the satisfaction of someone solving a puzzle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It felt so good to do something against the Germans, even if the only thing we could do was destroy our own possessions. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Trolls who had been taught a few simple sentences by the goblins proceeded to destroy the hall as before. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue Team’s commanders were also given a tool called Effects-Based Operations, which directed them to think beyond the conventional military method of targeting and destroying an adversary’s military assets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Jeanine attacked us to steal it. And if I am not careful, she will destroy it, so that is all I can tell you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even Samson, the world’s strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered it shimmeringly—as follows: He was down in the meat locker on the night that Dresden was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But we can't destroy it. We have to safeguard it—for all we know, this might be the last coin of its kind in the world." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A Grievers pulsating, bulbous body had squirmed halfway through the destroyed window, metallic arms with pincers snapping and clawing in all directions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I truly believe that if ever a state social agency destroyed a family, it destroyed ours. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One type of farming had destroyed the land. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only a remnant of our eastern force came back, destroying the last bridge that still stood amid the ruins of Osgiliath. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If she said another word, she’d have to tell Shay the truth: that she was a spy, a traitor sent there to destroy everything around them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity, and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These women, they destroy their toil so that they will always have more to do. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

On a local level, terra preta is valuable enough for locals to dig it up and sell as potting soil, an activity that, alas, has already destroyed countless artifacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I am Polybotes! Kneel before me so I may destroy you quickly.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of destroyed fetterlings lay in mounds around him, like a fort made of defeated enemies, and yet several hundred more live ones circled him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He destroyed the note and said nothing about it to Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo and Calypso sat on the beach, near the spot where Leo had destroyed the dining table, and they ate a picnic dinner together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“When I was 8, I was struck by lightning. The electricity destroyed part of this side of my brain.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their shelling was supposed to soften up the beaches, drive back the enemy, and destroy his positions. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s creating its own wild patterns, disrupting, destroying paths. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hurt her, destroy her, but he also wanted to continue smelling her, listening to her baby’s voice, and having her soft skin within reach of his hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have felt better if the room had been destroyed, ransacked, indicative of any sort of struggle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It would have destroyed Kendra to see her sons fighting like that, across her daughter’s body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He worried that she would marry Master and bring her Yoruba-speaking housegirl into the house and destroy his herb garden and tell him what he could and could not cook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And destroy it, I think, and if possible, my heart becomes even heavier. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jewish shops, stores, businesses, and private homes ransacked and destroyed. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that true, Kyle? Would you actually destroy property if it stood between you and your prize?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

All the dogs were brought back on board, in case Dog Town was destroyed by the shifting ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"But your main job, of course," my grandmother said, "would be to destroy every witch in the place. That really would be the end of the whole organisation!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

That was not the way to destroy people’s outworn beliefs . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These men considered it hilariously funny that an old lady had opposed the plan because the wildflowers would be destroyed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Why did they also need to be destroyed? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Great Oedipus bonds are encircling your brain and destroying you. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, it’s the least you can do after destroying my bonnet.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I’d tried telling that to Thomas after I’d accidentally destroyed his favorite video game, but that hadn’t kept him from not talking to me for an entire week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother has never destroyed anything. She is good and kind and caring. Ask the people of the Free Cities. They know.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was seeking Brahman, Atman, I wished to destroy myself, to get away from myself, in order to find in the unknown innermost, the nucleus of all things, Atman, Life, the Divine, the Absolute. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has to stop at the pub at Punch’s Cross to have a pint for the destroyed leg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They destroy crops and food supplies. They kill trees by gnawing around the bark. Mice can be destroyed by traps, poison, and cats.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you wouldn’t rule it for long. The haint infesting you would grow too powerful for even you to contend with, and he’d destroy you. But there’s another way.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He needed to destroy America's infrastructure by blowing up factories, power plants, water supply systems, and bridges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like we’re destroying property that matters anymore,” Charity told us before we left. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

By accepting the Bible, the priests explain, the Mexica “will be able to cool the heart / of He by Whom All Live, / so He will not completely destroy you.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because his white blood cells can identify and destroy the infected cells, this man doesn’t get sick. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Much time had passed when she saw the last yellow butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan and she admitted as an irremediable truth that Mauricio Babilonia had died. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was glad his unit didn’t carry out “search and destroy” missions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My solitude would give me an opportunity to take the first steps in that direction, without the kind of scrutiny that might destroy such efforts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four days after all girls’ schools were shut down, Fazlullah’s men destroyed five more schools. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But radium destroys any cells it encounters, and patients who’d taken it for trivial problems began dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were not about to see their world destroyed at the hands of some old fool like Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows they could destroy us all within seconds of the opening gong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Domingo was battling legend, and it was destroying him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The photo is destroyed as soon as the order is completed, Bigari said. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

If she did, would she destroy the entire world, or save it? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The green speckled recluse doesn’t destroy as quickly as the stonefish. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A single blip written into the software and every single piece of information in the Stormbreaker software could be destroyed at any time. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nor did they know that they could discipline themselves to destruction, that saying "yes" could destroy them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gyrfalcons advance against the Phantoms, the Castle Raiders beat the Windwalkers, the Cloud Knights destroy the Sorcerers, and, much to everyone’s surprise, the Zombie Vikings defeat the Sharpshooters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time for these riddles, y’all. Just tell me where he is, how I can destroy him.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His words destroyed the story she was writing but almost immediately supplied her with another. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t sell them—he destroyed them. Every last one. Part of his way of mourning Brady, I guess. I don’t think he’ll touch one for the rest of his life.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I have to be careful, because if a kid is picked last, it can absolutely destroy his or her self-confidence. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Later generations of Romans would quip that what the Barbarians had failed to destroy, the Barberinis stole. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Yet dividing by zero destroys the fabric of mathematics and the framework of logic—and threatens to undermine the very basis of science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hitler had only succeeded in destroying the Jewish body, he shouted in Yiddish, but the Revisionists were trying to destroy the Jewish soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Unless you had an older model, the machines destroyed the inside of all your phones.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood in Upper Manhattan wasn't destroyed, but the Towers were only a few miles away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later another storm destroyed eight hundred feet of the south wall of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

All English dictionaries, he declared, were vestiges of the same British tyranny that the American Revolution destroyed forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Adarlan could take their freedom, it could destroy their lives and beat and break and whip them, it could force them into ridiculous contests, but, criminal or not, they were still human. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"The city will be destroyed. It has nothing to do with you, but you must not be there when it happens," the dragon said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We formed a plan to destroy the simulation.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lines of tornadoes destroyed everything in their path—ripping up houses and trailers, tossing cars around like Matchbox toys. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And maybe there would have been more losses, with the bridge still left standing. I thought you wanted the bridge destroyed.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the original houses had been destroyed in the war. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bombs kill farming families, destroy their land, and drive them out of their homes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had just gone to bed in their upstairs bedroom when they heard a violent explosion that not only destroyed the front of their home, it shattered windows throughout the neighborhood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Without going near Rabscuttle, he must tell him to hurry ahead, reach the rabbits in the warren and warn them to block all the holes and stay inside until King Darzin’s army was destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is to be placed on the desk of Abraham Lincoln the day after Lee has destroyed the Army of the Potomac somewhere north of Washington. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the stands of Memorial Stadium cheering and clapping and feeling delighted as the Permian Panthers destroyed the vaunted Midland High Bulldogs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged Blanca never to enter what he called his “laboratory” without permission, because, he explained, the plates could be destroyed by natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything feels different now, thanks to an heirloom Porsche that I destroyed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That the house stands while so many others have been destroyed is evidence enough. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their presence didn’t help; their stores and homes were still destroyed by the Serbian army. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Thalia and I inhaled a few cookies while Zoe said, “I can drive, sir. I’m not as young as I look. I promise not to destroy your car.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The arrangement was that Mac would secretly communicate when the manuscript was safely out of the country; only then would we destroy the original. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the microbes include not only disease organisms but those that destroy waste matter, make soils fertile, and enter into countless biological processes like fermentation and nitrification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Dad seemed hell-bent on destroying himself, and I was afraid he was going to pull us all down with him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They bombarded them with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Ships to destroy? Demigods to cower in awe?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His watch was destroyed, but his hunger and thirst led him to believe that it was night. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The United Nations now defines genocide as an act, or acts, “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The gods know that a day will come when they will be destroyed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You, Percy Jackson, have already destroyed his memory. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What shall I destroy next? it asked, stepping over to the second monster, and in a terrible blurring of the eyes, they merged together, making a single monster who was even bigger. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court and would nearly destroy his career. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I need to destroy the toxin without watching eyes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There could be remnants of civilizations destroyed by wars or by beasts or by immune systems that failed a sudden bacterial pop quiz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

No one had said anything about having to convince an angry god you weren’t here to destroy his culture. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You see why I must destroy the girl, Percy. She is my enemy’s daughter. I shall crush her statue to dust. But you, dear Percy, you need not suffer.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Board, an arsonist had kindled a blaze that destroyed half of the all-black East End Elementary School. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you listen? Cain bore the mark not to destroy him but to save him. And there’s a curse called down on any man who shall kill him. It was a preserving mark.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“United Nations. As if mankind could ever unite. Remind me to tear down this building after we destroy Olympus.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo wondered if they were the ones that had destroyed the village. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pluto’s birthday gift, Hazel’s only luxury, had been destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You send this madman to destroy my family, my friends, and then you demand I join your stupid club or you won’t tell me where Wick is?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But even a small asteroid–the size of a house, say–could destroy a city. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If he’d destroyed his priceless artifact to make a flaming thirty-second helicopter, he was going to track down that stupid snow goddess Khione and smack her with a monkey wrench. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Among the Sufis there is a teaching that the universe has never been created and consequently cannot be destroyed. I have spent the afternoon,” Luke announced gravely, “browsing in our little library.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am infected with the white blindness and I am going to save my people by destroying the enemy.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many enemy aircraft were destroyed on the grounds, but others took off to attack our ships. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be more careful, Mike. The law was designed to save, not to destroy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All day long they removed debris from destroyed buildings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

An enraged mob killed the black man, then continued in its fury to destroy property owned by blacks in the surrounding area. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They also destroyed some seven hundred Jewish homes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘Man, did you have to destroy the plumbing?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I bought children’s books for Sohrab from the bookstore by Cinema Park—they have destroyed that too now—and Sohrab read them as quickly as I could get them to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Spraying frequently destroys this protective vegetation and creates open, barren areas which the ragweed hastens to fill. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we went through with the exorcism, it would destroy both Yakov and me indiscriminately. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some part of me knew she was right, but I was doing so well, I wanted to destroy every last monster. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And how are they going to destroy Rome?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Baboons could destroy her entire food store in a matter of minutes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was suggesting that the tank had been deliberately destroyed by anarchists, foreigners who were probably part of a Russian-inspired Communist plot to raise havoc in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When the Richardson curve crosses the vertical bar we have specified the waiting time to Doomsday: how many years until the population of the Earth is destroyed in some great war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Larisa had managed to avoid the antiaircraft searchlights, and the German pilot's aim in the dark wasn’t accurate enough to destroy their plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Our stealth destroyed, the captain now rages in venomous fury at the parrot. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Abandoned there, and half destroyed with flies, old Argos lay. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for Frear, the report that all bridges had been destroyed wasn’t absolutely true. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban, humiliated and furious, remained with the sensation that something in his life had been destroyed forever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was like a flower that had been battered by a storm, but not quite destroyed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you want to destroy the entire world?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘The poison will kill him eventually, but first come the paralysis and hours of excruciating pain. I want him to have the full experience! He can watch as I destroy you, Jason Grace!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She explained that in his absence, she and his brother had launched a revolt against Octavian, a conflict that could destroy Mark Antony’s position in Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Higday was arrested, but he had managed to destroy all evidence of spying. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance,” Marco whispers as she passes by him in the ballroom, the deep green of his suit seeping across her gown like moss. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the story, God tests Job’s faith by killing his wife and his children and his servants, destroying his house, his animals, and all his possessions. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had destroyed the only thing I believed in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They put some bomb in it and destroyed everything.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They opened him up for an autopsy and found that his kidneys were destroyed and that his liver was destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is why I ordered your grove destroyed. And that is why I must kill your dog, sweet as she seems.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘I will alert the giants. They will destroy you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Should I end my association with whites and preserve my life; or should I risk it for what I believed, namely that whites were not monolithic, not all racists to be hated and destroyed? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It frustrated Danny that “she wouldn’t cave in. He couldn’t destroy her with words.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the Japanese Zeroes began bombing the ships in Battleship Row and destroyed the USS Arizona, Bobby began clapping loudly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That weakling destroyed an entire legion of telkhines with his arrows.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And the ratio of anything to zero—a number divided by zero—can destroy logic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Drink had destroyed his mind, and so he ended in that mutilation—fool that he was. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Holy Jehovah destroy the vandals with holy-ghost fire! Holy Jehovah fight for us!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Four other officers were overpowered as well, and thirty-two SHU inmates, the worst men in the prison, were soon out of their cells, terrifying their captives and destroying the Box’s control center. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Charles forgot he had intended to destroy it and sent it along. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘So you destroy our ship. You destroy the entire coastline of the world. Once Gaia wipes out human civilization, who’s left to fear you? You’ll still be unknown.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gruwell says that the only way the Freedom Writers could be destroyed is from someone on the inside. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Or have you ever seen a Buddhist sand mandala? They use these different colors of sand—it’s incredibly cool—and then they destroy it. On purpose.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not even Skeleton Woman could stop St. Helens from destroying it all. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wished she believed in the devil, in a being outside of yourself that invaded your mind and caused you to destroy that which you cared about. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was nothing more for him but to efface himself, to destroy the unsuccessful structure of his life, to throw it away, mocked at by the gods. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over the earth men grew so wicked that finally Zeus determined to destroy them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And unless they succeeded in this quest, the world would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Your faith was weak even before Satan’s work destroyed our signs ministry.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He wrote a friend: “I’m doing the dearest little serial for Pearson’s new magazine, in which I completely wreck and destroy Woking—killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

"You have looked upon chaos and are not destroyed!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the two things he wanted, and he got them too, but it cost him his family, which he ran into the ground and destroyed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best I can hope for is to destroy the simulation before someone kills me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The war god laughed and stabbed and disembowelled like a kid destroying pinatas. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was afraid he would destroy everything by trying to force the magic on his own, when it was plain that the magic was reluctant to come for him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The only thing I couldn’t bring myself to destroy was the automaton, which I donated to the local museum. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I loved your sister. You have to believe that. Her death ruined me. It destroyed me like you can’t imagine.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The future destroys the past destroys the future. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I have done so—as a young boy, and then, when destroyed financially and forced to go back to the woods, as an adult for a couple of years. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They had decided to sling the cauldron between the two horses and make their way from the Marshes into the safe shelter of the forest, where they would destroy the Crochan. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Alex hits a momentary emotional impasse: either destroy something or destroy himself. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To destroy the homes and the food of wildlife is perhaps worse in the long run than direct killing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

On examination, they were found to have an opaque white film covering the eye, indicating that vision had been impaired or destroyed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Papá’s slow, painful abandonment had wounded us deeply at first, but we had managed to get beyond it by telling ourselves we were free spirits and nothing could ever destroy us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“They perished,” Mr. Poe said, “in a fire that destroyed the entire house. I’m very, very sorry to tell you this, my dears.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You have to prepare yourself first,” Nico said, “or the river will destroy you. It will burn away your body and soul.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A black pastor worked with white businessmen to plan rebuilding of a Baltimore community center destroyed in the riot. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When they appear m a great flooding mess, as they so often do when they have destroyed a victim, they look like a tub of spaghetti that has been dumped on theT floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of several days, more than two hundred banners were destroyed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He locks the flat door, and then hears a different story: about German planes destroyed by the Russians, sunken transport ships, and soldiers killed or captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we can destroy that thing.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You destroyed my home. You made my sister and me exiles and prisoners.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Going to have to destroy your plane, I’m afraid,” Paul said next. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Some people argued that fossils existed because God, displeased with his creations, had engineered a few worldwide catastrophes that had destroyed all the existent species and then had started creation all over again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately after using a page of the one-time pad, both the sender and the recipient would destroy it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After everything, this might be the thing that finally destroys you. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

This talk of being destroyed reminded me more of marshmallows—squashed ones. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

What the Greeks hoped for was that the Trojans would destroy it and so draw down upon them Athena’s anger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t just turn into a sin, it destroyed him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

No, this world of thought was still on this side, and it led to no goal when one destroyed the senses of the incidental Self but fed it with thoughts and erudition. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

My only choice is to find the toxin Epsilon-5 has made and try to destroy it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I've been wrong about the secretaries, I thought; maybe they destroyed the letters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hint, a surmise, a doubt as to what might be in the box, would destroy him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Your spy was correct in his reports. Had it not been for that report, this army might have been destroyed in detail. I thank you.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Kino was a well-liked man; it would be a shame if the pearl destroyed him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity had destroyed the Arisotelian philosophy; the void and the infinite cosmos had eliminated the nutshell universe and the idea of nature’s abhorrence of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Why would Zero, someone clearly skilled in technology, want to destroy this technology? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The same cows that had trampled the home-house floor had destroyed several sections of the cemetery fence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Next I slipped out of my damask gown and wrapped my shorn hair and my clothes in a tight bundle for Horatio to destroy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A leaky pipe destroys an entire rack of pressed botanical samples: it’s the diamond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I prayed that the Lord should destroy utterly the children of men. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the villages we came upon weren’t suitable, since we had burned them or another group of fighters had destroyed them at some point. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Any shop owned by a Jew was looted and destroyed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Thought Police hunts them down and destroys them almost as fast as we can produce them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Or would it bear witness again as we destroyed ourselves, leaving nothing behind but a living cloud of our knowledge, accomplishments, and so-called wisdom? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Sir, on my way here, I was set upon by robbers. They—they destroyed my master’s work—” The assistant stepped forward in anger. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

How many other fields were destroyed by this hailstorm? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"To protect the Fatherland. The enemy will stop at nothing to destroy our will to victory. Their propaganda caused us to lose the Great War." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They have the ability to destroy enzymes — enzymes that perform necessary functions in the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In his absence the English governor ordered George Percy, a nobleman and Jamestown resident, to take over and destroy the Indigenous population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Between them they shot down thirty-eight enemy aircraft, in addition to destroying targets on the ground and escorting dignitaries. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My feelings about Guillermo kaleidoscope from hating him one minute for destroying our family, for breaking my father’s heart, for a future that’s never going to happen—and, what would’ve happened? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dad had warned Audrey that if she ever again brought up the past, it would destroy our entire family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I realized that I could destroy my friend. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not necessary that you believe that the officer who choked Eric Garner set out that day to destroy a body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of writing I always destroyed afterward. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Colon from B-block— he had set fire to his cell and destroyed its fixtures once when I was there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This has destroyed my life. Even having to deny that it was mine destroyed my life. It made me look guilty. I’ve lived with this. Nobody will let me forget it.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“If you commit this sin to save a life, have you destroyed the world, or have you saved it?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The facts suggest that something is at work in the eagle’s environment which has virtually destroyed its ability to reproduce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But left in one place, the chickens would eventually destroy the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He returned to Germany, but by then his parents were dead, and everything they owned had been destroyed in the bombings. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about Kronos s words on the ship: I would love to see the terror in your eyes when you realize how I will destroy Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed that nothing could keep Joseph McCarthy from acquiring more power and destroying more lives. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She spoke with people who had been forced to come to the city after their villages had been destroyed by American bombs, their crops wiped out by Agent Orange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“With this sword I defend my subjects and destroy those who menace them. Bend the knee, and I promise you food, land, and justice. Kneel and live. Or go and die. The choice is yours.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the end of the violent, bloody film, one man was dead and the other two were emotionally destroyed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the darker parts of me, I crave destruction, as long as it is Erudite being destroyed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If they lose, you are destroyed; if they win, you end up their prisoner. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The Taliban have destroyed what heritage Afghans had. You saw what they did to the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A desire to inherit this estate was ostensibly the motivation behind Lowell Lee’s plot to destroy his family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Mud People destroyed everything they came into contact with. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘The usual obnoxious venti trying to destroy the ship. You ready for guard duty?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We always destroyed the bases we abandoned so that other squads wouldn’t be able to use them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Is there a plan afoot to destroy them?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not see a girl, or even a woman, but some unearthly being who looks like she might make her home in the volcano that destroyed so many in Haymitch’s Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a spray applied to potato fields to destroy the vines they have taken a toll of human and nonhuman life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed or damaged 18 warships and nearly 350 planes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The factions are destroyed, and it was all stupid to begin with.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was not alone in assuming that the progress of science destroyed superstitious beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Since everyone who knew the secret would be at the wedding, the Chandrian can come in, kill everyone who knows anything, and either destroy or steal whatever it is.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought it was ridiculous but couldn’t help watching her every time she completely destroyed a kid’s head with her clippers and dye. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The saboteurs had all been instructed to kill any team member who acted suspiciously, to ensure that no one would destroy the mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Storm Troopers, SS men, and Hitler Youth banded together, attacking Jews and destroying their businesses, synagogues, and homes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For what is left to worship that is not destroyed? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The Crochan is destroyed, and with it Arawn’s power to add to the number of his Cauldron-Born. It is one of the gravest defeats Arawn has ever suffered. But I know the price you paid.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They have distributed among them the surveillance equipment George was carrying, and they’re destroying it, hitting it with shoes or rocks or hammers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The first one was his own private belief that God wrathfully is going to destroy this civilization. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shortest route was across the chasm, and we’d just destroyed the only bridge. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Conor saw that he had destroyed almost every inch of it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It breaks Mr. Hannon’s heart to think of you dragging bags of coal off a float and it breaks your mother’s heart and ’twill destroy your eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Clarisse yelled, ‘Romans, you have fired on our camp! Withdraw or be destroyed!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She helped the kid put a shell on top of the castle just before the wave destroyed it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the screaming and spanking subsided, Joseph’s parents forced him to say he was sorry, especially about the expensive Persian rug he’d destroyed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations—they weighed on me with a mountain’s weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I celebrate myself and sing myself....He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For generations thereafter, the Arabs recounted the legend of a boy who had turned himself into the wind, almost destroying a military camp, in defiance of the most powerful chief in the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse- guard wasp hovers above herds of grazing cattle, destroying the blood-sucking flies that torment them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That we live in one which destroys galaxies and stars and worlds is also remarkable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the automaton would probably be thrown away or destroyed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Why should I want to destroy you?” he said, laughing, with the light of the other world shining around his head. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That means you’re the terrible dragon! You’re the one that destroyed the king’s father’s palace. What a lot of trouble you caused!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I am relieved to find out that not all of his writings were destroyed in the fire—some of the pages had already been sent back to England with Captain Newport. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They could be cut apart and cut off from home and destroyed in detail, piece by piece. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A protective enzyme called cholinesterase is at hand to destroy the transmitting chemical once it is no longer needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We did not want to destroy the country before we freed it, and to drive the whites away would devastate the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's clear, at this point, that the explosion destroyed the hearing in my left ear for good. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Populous native societies not thereby eliminated were destroyed in the same way the Aztecs and Incas had been—by full-scale wars, increasingly waged by professional European soldiers and their native allies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His army is still on the march toward the kingdom of the goblins, and yet Ghohg has not been destroyed as promised. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She could accept death if she had to, but if the Athena Parthenos was destroyed their quest would fail. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The way it keeps on beating, the way it survives in spite of how it’s been destroyed—it has won. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course. I want to destroy Snow as much as you do,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was going back there in 1945, two days after the city was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hellhound is still in the arena. It won’t let anyone approach. I did not have the heart to force it into a cage ... or destroy it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The suffragists would still carry protest banners, but they would also burn copies of President Wilson’s speeches in front of the White House, symbolically destroying his declarations of democracy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There’d be some sign of damage if it had been magically destroyed.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In Germany, the effects of Marburg virus on the brain were particularly frightening, and resembled the effects of rabies: the virus somehow damaged the central nervous system and could destroy the brain, as does rabies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shows it to me before destroying it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He knew the Vietnam War had destroyed Johnson’s presidency, and that it could do the same to him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They needed to deliver a blast that wouldn’t destroy the ship. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take Speedy’s case. Speedy is one of the latest models, extremely specialized, and as expensive as a battleship. It’s not a thing to be lightly destroyed.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He assured his audience that as soon as the enemy sanctuaries had been eliminated and NVA military supplies destroyed, American troops would be withdrawn. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Change has got to be made right now, before we destroy ourselves. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera glides over the cities of my past, capturing their energetic skylines just before they're destroyed by the terrorist's bomb or advancing alien warship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Catelyn said, "Let us hope there will be no battle. We three share a common foe who would destroy us all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Handcuffs, machine guns, and so forth. The sirens scream loudly when we ride through Washington. You know what I think of America but now my dream and ours has been destroyed." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But if he stayed put, this camp would be destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside his every belief if it would save his daughters. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of uncertainty, and he worried he might destroy the engine, but then the root popped out of the ground. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

This map was smuggled out to the movement with instructions to destroy it immediately after it was perused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the original Fragment had been destroyed by the fire, the burning pages flapping and frittering away into ash, all their words turned to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Here in the Brotherhood was the one place in the country where we were free and given the greatest encouragement to use our abilities, and he was trying to destroy it! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I manage a weak smile, then close my eyes, destroyed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I had to face reality: The crime scene had been destroyed by the police, and there could be no useful evidence whatsoever still inside. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

This must have been the way Nico had seen Tartarus, and it had almost destroyed his sanity. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“If friends do not matter to you, perhaps you need more incentive. Perhaps I should destroy these scrolls instead—priceless works by Archimedes!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I explained to Joe how disappointed we were that the State had destroyed the biological evidence that might have allowed us to prove he was innocent through DNA testing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our hands find each other, holding fast to a part of 12 that Snow has somehow failed to destroy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She turned back to her laptop, choked with the urge to destroy, to slash and burn. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that the river destroyed many of the boundary markers, erasing all of the landmarks that told farmers which land was theirs to cultivate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The limestone covering the floor was all that remained of the original stone temple, which the King of Adarlan had destroyed when he decided to replace it with the glass structure. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And when she wasn’t thinking about her notebook, all she could think about was her destroyed home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry sat in thought for a moment, then asked, “So if all of his Horcruxes are destroyed, Voldemort could be killed?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“They ruined the party and have nearly destroyed my house! In what way can that be considered an accident?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The Cataclyst had destroyed everything in the sector that could be destroyed, but artifacts were indestructible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One frightened person didn’t check other stations to verify the news because, she explained, the announcers said CBS “was the only one not destroyed.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

"But what if it can? The queen thinks Sophia will destroy the kingdom. Ruin lives. Is my life not worth the lives of so many others? Don't you think we should find out?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His one obsession was to destroy what he called “the Marxist cancer,” which was slowly gaining ground among the people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then if the Ring cannot be kept from him for ever by strength,’ said Glorfindel, ‘two things only remain for us to attempt: to send it over the Sea, or to destroy it.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I slip on my backpack, turning for the last time, flinching at the horrific flames destroying our camp. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It burns brightly with radiation, destroying all life and eventually destroying the atoms that make up matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then came Pope Julius, and he found the Church powerful, possessing all of the Romagna, having destroyed the Roman barons, and having annihilated their factions by Alexander’s blows. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

When that bomb fell on Hiroshima, it destroyed the whole city. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that everything I owned would be destroyed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The antis used the same arguments they had used all along: Suffrage would destroy the home; it was “unwomanly”; mothers would neglect their children, and wives would divorce their husbands over political disagreements. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giants intended to attack the original Mount Olympus and destroy the gods forever. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If I don't, someday it will destroy me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hera sent a fearful pestilence which destroyed the people by thousands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And those they do not kill will die anyway at the destruction they see at the loss at the loss of the children the loss will destroy the rest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The file had been meant to destroy itself if the wrong user ever got her hands on it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever had destroyed this city, the people had tried to escape it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the alliance refused to submit, US forces destroyed Indigenous villages and fields and murdered women, children, and elders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Surely there must be something else we can do. Though we cannot destroy the Crochan, we dare not part with it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She mastered the two most powerful Romans of her time, and, because of a third, she was destroyed. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

When I remake the world, this prison will be destroyed as well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And in order, I suppose, to destroy her, he simply says, “Okay.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Men posing as German police bound and gagged the guards and managed to destroy some important documents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Often accompanied by hymn-singing women, she conducted raids throughout Kansas, “hatchetizing” furniture and destroying paintings and kegs of whiskey and rum. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The head was broken off one of the jinny horses and a booth was destroyed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Confederate attempt to destroy supplies and arms to keep them out of the approaching Union army’s hands has escalated out of control. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When I see the box I shall open it and destroy the monster, though there were a thousand men looking on, and if I am to be wiped out for it the next moment!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Almost all records were destroyed in the war. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were all we had left of Mo, and they'd been destroyed out of pure maliciousness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the most fascinating of the new methods are those that seek to turn the strength of a species against itself — to use the drive of an insect’s life forces to destroy it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Mentally I was completely prepared to fire my weapon and to destroy any enemy that was anywhere near me,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dad bought the updated 1982 Highway Code the day it came out, and he says old ones could cause accidents if they’re not destroyed. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

That the kiln would also be able to destroy any odors emanating from the interior box was singularly important. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘You speak nonsense. A column of fire is about to destroy you and your precious Greek statue. No ally can help you. Your mother has abandoned you as you abandoned your legion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Did I save that German laddie’s life yesterday, or destroy it? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Many others are destroyed merely because they happen to be associates of the unwanted plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The idea was that if your plane ran out of ammunition, you could still destroy an enemy plane if you crashed into it on purpose. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Knowing our own language and culture could save the lives of Americans we had never met and help defeat enemies who wanted to destroy us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hold your head up and look as if you’re ready to destroy the world if you have to. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was the natural order of things, and Raul could use it to destroy him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six days after her visit the first fires occurred and destroyed several structures, among them the famous Peristyle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Tired of being locked up, tired of watching drugs destroy entire families, entire communities, an entire city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They would have had to destroy the plane anyway, to make it look like a crash rather than a planned landing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

What he was planning was beyond belief, a mass murder that would destroy Britain for generations to come. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All they needed was a way to navigate the Labyrinth so they could invade and destroy Camp Half-Blood, and Luke apparently thought that was going to happen very soon. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“But his body is mortal. Couldn’t you just destroy him?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In a world where people are always being ripped away by the undead plague, I'd thought his words had destroyed my heart. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Would he confiscate or destroy the book that had taught Harry so much...the book that had become a kind of guide and friend? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And while he’s being much too cute and following me around, he also destroys all of my stuff, including my self-esteem and my sanity. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The palace might have been the most amazing place I’d ever seen if it hadn’t been in the process of getting destroyed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

One of them, Turner noticed, was crying as he destroyed his howitzer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Especially the senior from Chapel Hill he destroyed in the final. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“They have killed twenty-two guards and nine of the staff, and they’ve set light to every part of the buildings that still stood. They are going to destroy it completely.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Though the world, in fact, was not destroyed, everyone had a marvelous time and people spoke fondly of the event for years afterward. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system or annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen," he wrote. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

El Patron had refused to let the doctors destroy Matt’s brain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antwan would probably destroy Sneaky if he ever messed up his hair. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Had he found the evil proof on his own, or was he sent by Claudius to destroy the evidence of the foul murder? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There is only one thing left for me in the world now, and it is to destroy the simulation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He is thinking how strange it was that a wedding present to me should have been the cause of destroying a wedding present to Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not pretend that means nothing. Can you imagine how difficult it’s going to be to explain to Merlin how we let a trainee destroy a priceless artifact of unending power?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then another typhoon struck, again destroying most of the Mongolian fleet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If the Nightbringer hates the Scholars as much as Cook says, then it’s no wonder he sought to destroy the Lioness and her lieutenant. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If civilizations tend to destroy themselves soon after reaching a technological phase, there might be no one for us to talk with but ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy had destroyed the plane with one swing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Subjects had to collect flags while avoiding and destroying enemy tanks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could break out of the circle and destroy a few invaders, but not without the others skewering him and Annabeth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“They wouldn’t have needed to if it wasn’t destroyed in the first place.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The murderer’s first care was to destroy it. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is saying you had help—that it was Charlese’s idea to destroy my classroom.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because they were blind they would destroy themselves and I'd help them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dust. He’s going to find the source of Dust and destroy it, isn’t he?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Once I listened to him give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and he mentioned the Haitian phrase “looking for life, destroying life.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“They have...destroyed at least two thirds of all who have perished by the disorder.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He knew that half of him had been destroyed. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to hatch a plan. We must destroy this boy.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have traditionally avoided tropical forests, because the climate destroys all wood, cloth, and organic material—except for ceramics and stone, there is little left to dig up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately bodies cover us like we are germs and they are the white blood cells sent to surround and destroy us. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They committed ecological suicide by destroying their own resource base. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate it when people say that! I hate Australia! Naming that ridiculous animal after me. For that, Percy Jackson, my son shall destroy you!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This man had come in and destroyed everything. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“The weaver has paid us much tribute to destroy any children of Athena who would dare enter our shrine. We have never let her down. We cannot let you pass.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The general goal of both the regular army and the irregular colonial forces was to destroy Indigenous communities. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow dog eyes, predatory, examining a creature he could destroy in a moment if he chose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing wrong with that, but it should not be used as an excuse to destroy the stability of language. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t come, you’ll try and destroy me,” said Mrs. Coulter, breaking away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue found under birch trees a half-dozen destroying angels and pointed them out to her daughters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fire department suspected arson; police theorized that whoever set the fire had wanted to destroy the secrets still embedded within. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand. What were you doing here anyway? Now you’ve destroyed everything.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Potentiation seems to take place when one compound destroys the liver enzyme responsible for detoxifying the other. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Filled with twenty tons of TNT, they could destroy a city block. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beyond comprehension; but this was indeed the truth: The rebels themselves were taking up our work and destroying Norfolk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they didn’t care about getting destroyed because they were already deceased. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had some signal from the pendant reached them before she had destroyed it? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Oblivious to the fighting around them they sought to destroy each other, hacking, stabbing, lunging and swinging in mortal combat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“This could just as easily destroy your lives,” he warned. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The power to destroy the gods . . . how? I mean, what would happen?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She grasped the idea that nothing was ever lost or destroyed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may have ruined my spectacle, but Gaea will still destroy your world!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wherever the spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon the material things, invariably, the women reflect it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Only now that we are about to destroy more than an acceptable level of genetic material are they deciding to intervene. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"I wasn't lying. The photos were destroyed in a fire. I lit it myself." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning for the way she found them, used them and tossed them aside. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He stomps around, explaining in detail how he will find the faeries responsible and destroy them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully he is destroyed for now, but monsters never truly die. They re-form over and over again, and they must be hunted whenever they reappear.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s no law against destroying abandoned nests,” the vice-president was saying. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When any of these enzymes — even a single one of them — is destroyed or weakened, the cycle of oxidation within the cell comes to a halt. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As they walked farther, they saw it was a farmhouse that had been completely destroyed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s bored, poor man,” said Tzara, with a flat lack of pity, “Nothing to destroy.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’d read about the great volcanoes, the lost city of Pompeii destroyed by fire that poured out of mountains from deep below. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her story, like a number of others, shows how strongly the ancient Greeks disapproved of destroying or injuring a tree. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have we had to struggle so hard for our right to happiness that we have all but destroyed the conditions under which we and others can still be happy? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945,” Billy Pilgrim began. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t hand them a weapon to destroy us. Not if I can possibly help it.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It destroyed countless numbers of my people as well as yours. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

These refugees had terrible stories to tell: houses destroyed, people sleeping in the streets, children dying, water running low, disease spreading. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A major figure despite his obscurity, Sky Witness set out to destroy Mutal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“God bless His Excellency! God give Tanzania and Gabon strength! God destroy Nigeria and Britain and Egypt and Algeria and Russia! In the mighty name of Jesus!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But having destroyed the old gods in its finale, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner’s next move was to found a new religion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It felt like there was something inside him that wanted to destroy me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had a few more minutes to destroy seventeen years of evidence. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a fact. It’s stupid to destroy your own neighborhood.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps. But the monster at least must be destroyed. We have agreement on that?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some thing was down there in the shadows, the same thing that had taken my father, and it would destroy me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d overturned the chariot and destroyed several buildings, but every time he threw off a wave of attackers in his hurricane, the ghosts simply got up and charged again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This time, Tonya herself managed to destroy an enemy plane with the machine guns in her tail gunner’s turret in the back of their Pe-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And even if I could, how could I kill something that had already been destroyed—chopped to pieces and cast into eternal darkness? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But instead of destroying the soil, they improved it, and that is something we don't know how to do today” in tropical soils. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise. They will destroy us, if they can. It is time for us to band together. It is time for us to act.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Hanako had no idea how this would protect anyone from a bomb, especially an atomic bomb like the one that had destroyed Hiroshima. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Probably boys have destroyed them, it’s the sort of thing boys destroy; or else the lurking men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them remain in the cities, prolonging the lives of ancient Silvers, mending livers destroyed by alcohol and the like. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Virgil waited for him to open the backpack, discover Gulliver, and destroy him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t suppose they’ve ever heard of hobbits down here. I suppose I ought to be glad that the beastly Orcs look like being destroyed, but I would rather be saved myself.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As a community, we placed our trust in their ability to somehow keep Klan bombs from killing our loved ones and destroying our homes and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

These horrible folk destroyed all Odysseus’ ships except the one he himself was in—which had not yet entered the harbor when the attack was made. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t destroy a Death Star or anything like that, but I did just get through the fifth grade. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Driven crazy by pain and even the tiniest amount of light, they would generally proceed to destroy everything in their path. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ve studied it again and again over the past few days. The body was totally destroyed.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When Craig and I were very young, we pulled a brand-new carton of Newports from a shelf and set about destroying them, snapping them like beans over the kitchen sink. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It felt strange dropping through it this time, landing on the stairs amid fragments of wood from the door Adiah had destroyed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Stella wasn’t sure what else to say, but thinking about her father’s words being burned, destroyed, made her stomach queasy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

How shall we find his where; and having found it, how can we destroy? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was white racism, concluded Clement, that was destroying the schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then it crumpled too; the flame destroyed it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had to destroy whatever was in that box. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The power unleashed by the jailing destroyed the Star—and the Coven. But the Scholars rejoiced, for the jinn were defeated. All but the greatest of them.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The microphone and podium on the stage, where I heard a presentation by a children’s book illustrator a few weeks earlier, are destroyed. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Allied bombing raids destroyed strategic locations throughout Europe in the push to defeat Hitler. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Far from destroying pristine wilderness, that is, Europeans bloodily created it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although no one will ever accuse me of being much of a science student, one thing I learned from science classes is that energy is never created and never destroyed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nan and Pop never told me who destroyed my family. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That and a primal urge to destroy my father's golf bags. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“For one, make sure our brothers and sisters know they can’t destroy black-owned businesses. That messes it up for all of us.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Watching this simple act of love destroys me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I can see they think this is important information that they’ll be bringing to those who run District 13, and I play along so as not to destroy their hopes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“At least no homes were destroyed,” the villagers said to each other, “and we know everyone is safe.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They have destroyed the cliche that whenever Negroes move into an area the property values go down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little scumbag would hope to destroy the Greek camp from a distance, wait for the flames to die down, then march in unopposed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And last night this same man had talked of the need to destroy someone. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As quickly as bridges and buildings were destroyed, hundreds of men and women with picks and shovels were sent to clear the rubble. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This girl, this Yellow—she’d destroyed two vehicles and one life in a matter of seconds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After the war, the Capitol destroyed all the nests surrounding their city, but the ones near the districts were left untouched. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They also grieved together when all their best-laid plans were destroyed in the February 1967 electrical fire on board the Apollo 1 command module, which was on the launch- pad in Cape Canaveral for testing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I have so little time to destroy it. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My tranquil evening had been destroyed and no one had even said hello to me. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Billy joined the regiment, it was in the process of being destroyed by the Germans in the famous Battle of the Bulge. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Switching from field to field to field, swidden farmers live in the forest without destroying the ecosystems they depend on: a supple, balanced harmony. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now I want to destroy because of it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel himself—see himself—so eager to go to battle, to be a hero, to destroy the enemy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And she takes our children. One every year. We have to leave the youngest baby in the circle of sycamores and never look back. If we don’t, the Witch will destroy us all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Just as the prophecy had predicted, the Powhatan empire was destroyed by a new tribe that arrived from the Chesapeake Bay. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My thoughts drift to our mosque back home and how it was shut down for more than six months after someone started a fire that destroyed parts of the interior. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Twas thim same numbers had thim destroyed altogether. Who would want to be killing a mortal for what he didn’t understand, or for nothing? I took up with the single combats instead.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could anything less deserve to be destroyed? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other Hogwarts students tease Scorpius about it relentlessly—if the Ministry could release a statement reaffirming that all Time-Turners were destroyed in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“If I die down here, you go on living in the dark. Gaea destroys the gods, and they never realize you were the better weaver.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They fired at the second man again, destroying his other arm, and he fainted dead away. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

This map was crucial in destroying the two spheres theory, and in making Copernicanism possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I guess one of those pictures could destroy a man’s whole life. Aren’t you in danger?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists ran from door to door shouting, “Hiroshima has been destroyed!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slapped die water with his hand to destroy the mirror. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

More intensive farming might produce the requisite surplus, but cannot be sustained; the plowed land, exposed to the elements, is destroyed in as little as a decade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The marauding orcs had been waylaid and almost all destroyed; the remnant had fled westward towards the mountains, and were being pursued. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“God knows, it is natural to mourn your father, but do not let your grief destroy your reason,” pleaded Horatio, taking my hand in his. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

How could months of work be destroyed in a few minutes? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t—wouldn’t—let the boys destroy my hope we’d find a better life, somehow. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Having destroyed, its host, the hot agent is now coming out of every orifice, and is “trying” to find a new host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she would only give up on him, he could stop destroying her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Father God, destroy the saboteurs that are showing the enemy the way! Holy-spirit fire!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I will destroy the—” He turned in time to see the ruby sphere take off with the scrolls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how he was to destroy this evil. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If he destroyed her office, too, there’s no telling what she’d do to him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How did we destroy your home—that spa where you lived?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course. They were crazy. They almost destroyed the world.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You want me to abandon the quest, let Camp Jupiter be destroyed? My friends are counting on me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their societies were destroyed by weapons their opponents could not control and did not even know they had. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a dreary prospect but a means of destroying them, at least in Harlem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will have them rewarded. If we destroy heroes who do us a great favor, then we are no better than the Titans. If this is Olympian justice, I will have none of it.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Because that hero will decide the fate of Olympus. He or she will make a decision that either saves the Age of the Gods, or destroys it.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid I can’t, sir. I destroyed it. It was too dangerous to leave lying around.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the fighting raged on, Octavian proceeded to destroy the rest of Mark Antony’s fleet, sinking all but a small number of his ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t destroyed, as rock would have been. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No. You destroyed the body. His spirit’s long gone. You know that. Come on, Juan.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She had never seen anyone with destroyed vision before, though she had heard of such things happening through accident or disease. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an obscure specialization, but the candlelit and treacherous universe in which they moved—of sin unpunished, of innocence destroyed—was one I found appealing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And the Oblation Board and the Church and Bolvangar and Mrs. Coulter and all, they want to destroy it too, don’t they?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

For in fact, there is no secure means of holding on to cities except by destroying them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been consumed and out of control, every part of him wanting to destroy that pilot. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Many supported the act’s main goal: to eliminate the drunkenness that had become a national problem and was destroying many families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Didn’t know what he meant at first, as I thought I’d done a dead brilliant job of destroying it myself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Would the explosion be certain to destroy the heavy water? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you telling me that you were almost murdered by the Erudite ... and then fought your way into the Dauntless compound... and destroyed the simulation?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her magic was all she had, and she used it to destroy what she most admired. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Thus, instead of a way out for Bloom, Linda threatened to reaffirm the roots he badly wanted to destroy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would destroy her rock people village down by the beach. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nah, to me that was no different than some Wall Street executive who makes a million dollars by destroying some part of the world. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Anaxagoras was brought to Athens by Pericles, its leader in its time of greatest glory, but also the man whose actions led to the Peloponnesian War, which destroyed Athenian democracy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that morning Tree-ear swept up the remains of the destroyed vases in Min’s yard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

If that were so, we would all be destroyed in a day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no creature so ungodly as to make them destroy it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that just a few days ago the Earth Mother had awoken and almost destroyed everything Piper held dear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I am saying, rather, that control must be geared to realities, not to mythical situations, and that the methods employed must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Never mind that. Find the creature and destroy it,” said the President. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then came the worst news yet: In Germany and Austria, on the night of November 9—10, 1938, synagogues and Torah scrolls were burned and Jewish property destroyed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The clever thing about a bio-bomb was that it destroyed only living tissue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If the doleful experience of cultural conflict on Earth were the galactic standard, it seems we would already have been destroyed, perhaps with some passing admiration expressed for Shakespeare, Bach and Vermeer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it came out that the High Blade had an illegitimate daughter, it would destroy him. He’d be in serious violation.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She’d been wounded in a furious air battle and her navigator had been killed, and when she ran out of ammunition, she destroyed a German plane by ramming it with her own aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The Japanese in a predawn surprise attack have destroyed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. I repeat. The White House has confirmed that the Japanese...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d convinced myself that destroying their ship was all right because they were evil, they were sailing to attack my city, and besides, they couldn’t really be permanendy killed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The faucet runs and runs until the cell is exhausted, consumed, and destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to have her life destroyed.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every day on average two people were destroyed at the city’s rail crossings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Part of me thinks it would be a good idea to destroy it, but I know it contains the only record of my parents’ deaths, so I’ll settle for keeping it hidden. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday the seventh, the night before the Great Fire, a blaze destroyed four blocks and took over sixteen hours to control. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stalin was destroying the people of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was like thinking of bloodroot and witches, or of mushrooms called “destroying angels” and “death cups.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘I thought they were all destroyed in the flood,’ said Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile he was at a loss to know how to destroy the only one that they had found, the Horcrux that currently lay against the bare flesh of his chest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But as soon as I saw Grandma Sands I knew that Byron would destroy this poor old woman. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He broke the newness of the shoes with rubbed sand and kneaded the raincoat to destroy its newness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the explosion destroyed the Smiths’ house, agents asked the nurse who had been on duty when Bill was being treated in the hospital whether he had mentioned anything about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z