| 单词 | destroyed |
| 例句 | “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 There was no rubble from the destroyed castle, and no wreckage from the thousands of spaceships and aircraft that had filled the sky a few moments ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z What the earthquake had not destroyed, the fires had. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Once Clarkson realized that every second of every day human lives were being destroyed and he was letting it happen, he changed the course of his life—risking everything to abolish this terrible practice. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The symbols of our old way of life, destroyed—a man dead, others injured—and for what? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Listen, I know about these things. My brother started getting drunk in tenth grade, and it just about destroyed him. I might have been like him, except that I saw what it did to him.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The connective tissue under the skin had been destroyed by the virus, causing a subtle distortion of the face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Workmen trampled his plantings and destroyed his roads. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 But you will be destroyed by Tartarus himself! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 Forced to concede that an atomic bomb had destroyed Hiroshima, the German scientists began trying to figure how the bomb had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just dead—it had been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He assumed that anything beautiful would be destroyed by her. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets at the far end of the village had been so utterly destroyed by the earthquake which drove out the last villagers that Capricorn had not had them rebuilt. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z 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 If they chose wrong, they would fail, and the entire world would be destroyed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘And Orcs would have taken or destroyed all the boats, and the baggage as well.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945,” Billy Pilgrim began. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Perhaps the j Drowned God had destroyed the island in his wroth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 Some disgruntled American—a retired veteran—referred to me as “a thing that had to be destroyed.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Abandoned there, and half destroyed with flies, old Argos lay. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 We demanded that all the schools that had been destroyed by the Taliban be rebuilt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Our stealth destroyed, the captain now rages in venomous fury at the parrot. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z 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 As Nathan had expected, the rocks rushed together and destroyed the container. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 They tell us that we have destroyed and hurt so much that nature cannot recover. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They would be destroyed and humiliated in these battles. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z No matter how kindly he treated her now that he had destroyed her, it made no sense. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z 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 He was the son of the man who had destroyed Khazaria and killed Saba. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z ‘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 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 “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 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 I went on and on until I had totally destroyed the flowers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Who can say?...The communists want law and order destroyed in America....They want riots in the streets, and demonstrations on the campus. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was built on two Jewish cemeteries that the Nazis had desecrated and destroyed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z All the monsters had been destroyed or scattered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Any shop owned by a Jew was looted and destroyed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Running 2,700 miles cannot repair hearts that have been destroyed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z 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 “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 “You destroyed my home. You made my sister and me exiles and prisoners.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They had maliciously broken into the laboratory and systematically destroyed it out of pure malice and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “That weakling destroyed an entire legion of telkhines with his arrows.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed or damaged 18 warships and nearly 350 planes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The timbers of small corrals were broken, well housings aslant, outhouses blown over and destroyed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “This room didn’t get destroyed by those bombs,” Diana said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His old life, the gods, and the entire world might be destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “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 This man had come in and destroyed everything. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Despite constant maintenance, erosion silted up reservoirs, hurricanes destroyed terraces, and weeds and sediment choked irrigation networks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 For Kino was a well-liked man; it would be a shame if the pearl destroyed him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “They wouldn’t have needed to if it wasn’t destroyed in the first place.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Nan and Pop never told me who destroyed my family. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Luckily for Frear, the report that all bridges had been destroyed wasn’t absolutely true. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘I thought most giants could only be destroyed by a god and demigod working together.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That if things got destroyed, it was us that missed out, not nobody else. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 I do not believe all men are destroyed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Americans in the slaughterhouse had a very interesting visitor two days before Dresden was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She helped the kid put a shell on top of the castle just before the wave destroyed it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was like a flower that had been battered by a storm, but not quite destroyed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “That is my policy since one Igbo man destroyed my house at Yaba. But you look like a responsible somebody.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 He had destroyed the only thing I believed in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “I’m afraid it was destroyed at a really wild gathering. Everyone dearly loved it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “Beat the high score or be destroyed!” the voice announced. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 “But Papa said America destroyed our lives! He said that once.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “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 I'd been there the night Mama and Baba's world was destroyed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But still, monsters didn’t usually let themselves get destroyed so easily. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “The Shetani destroyed his body, but I’m the one that took his life.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Its last remnants were destroyed soon after Hypatia’s death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “I suppose we can’t last forever if the world itself is going to be destroyed someday. But I do know that we’re going to survive and triumph for a long, longtime.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Had some signal from the pendant reached them before she had destroyed it? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Ebola virus destroyed an animal’s internal organs, and the carcass deteriorated abruptly after death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And his lordship's good name was destroyed for ever. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Their societies were destroyed by weapons their opponents could not control and did not even know they had. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "You knew her. Were you lying? I mean, when you said the photos were destroyed in a fire, is that the truth?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “No, that’s just something that makes sure my TV doesn’t get destroyed by crazy power cuts.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 You knew that the gods must be destroyed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They destroyed communication lines, supply depots, and other important enemy installations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The truth, that the Smoke had been destroyed by an armed invasion, seemed too far-fetched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The explosion that destroyed the gym came out of nowhere. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z 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 “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 The shortest route was across the chasm, and we’d just destroyed the only bridge. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And Isengard has been destroyed, and your precious master is a beggar in the wilderness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 His visits had thrilled her, his departures destroyed her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 horsemen went wide about westward and came up on the flank of the enemy and from behind, and they were destroyed or driven east into the hills. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z 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 ‘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 Most of the Capitol’s air fleet was destroyed in 2 or during the invasion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z 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 “This isn’t how it works, Jinny,” said Ben, surveying the ragged cushions and the destroyed couch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy had destroyed the plane with one swing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “The shops are closed or destroyed,” I said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z All the rough-fish population of these waters was destroyed also — the carp, buffalo, drum, gizzard shad, and catfish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 ‘She’ll reduce the Acropolis to a smoking crater. Athens - your city - will be utterly destroyed, your people along with it. You believe me, don’t you?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His only other friend, Festus the dragon, had been reduced to a figurehead when his control disk had gotten destroyed on their last adventure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 Kali’s hut had been completely destroyed in the last final fury of the storm. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Neither the torn face nor the destroyed voice could carry expression but there was anxiety in the clear eyes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z 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 “Everything was destroyed in the fire! I lost all my papers!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I manage a weak smile, then close my eyes, destroyed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 How many other fields were destroyed by this hailstorm? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I must have destroyed it so that no one would learn what I wish to keep hidden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 ‘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 Here are a couple of other examples: Their house was destroyed in 1993. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 It reminded him what he must do if he was not to be destroyed. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 This is reminiscent of Schooler’s experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people’s ability to solve insight problems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z 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 Unknown to the boys, the relief army would never come: It had already been destroyed by the Russians. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 In one catastrophic event all of them and many, perhaps most, of the other species on the Earth, were destroyed.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If I didn’t, it would hardly matter, because the city would be destroyed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 She had imagined her parents’ appearance for so long, she didn’t want the image destroyed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Jinjoo wondered if they were the ones that had destroyed the village. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Drink had destroyed his mind, and so he ended in that mutilation—fool that he was. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Had they murdered the families and destroyed the villages of everyone here as well? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 "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 ‘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 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 As they walked farther, they saw it was a farmhouse that had been completely destroyed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She’d destroyed an island, died, and come back from the Underworld. 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 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 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 “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 Trees will fall, and any remaining places where people live will be destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z 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 What did you and Hassan call it, “the Wall of Ailing Corn”? A rocket destroyed a whole section of that wall in the middle of the night early that fall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z How could anything less deserve to be destroyed? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That was part of District 13's job until they were destroyed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 Her father had saved his people and destroyed himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If that were so, we would all be destroyed in a day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When I remake the world, this prison will be destroyed as well. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 Homes in the Lithuanian Neighborhood destroyed by arson. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 Perhaps they were lost in France, or perhaps she later destroyed them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “That’s so strange, don’t you think? I wonder if someone destroyed his notebooks or letters?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Your faith was weak even before Satan’s work destroyed our signs ministry.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z 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 Everything feels different now, thanks to an heirloom Porsche that I destroyed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 Some of the 46th’s aircraft were already destroyed—and some were still on fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He went home and started writing down his ideas right away, pointing out which American industries could be easily destroyed with high explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z 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 Then it crumpled too; the flame destroyed it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 But they were warmer than her destroyed grippies, she realized, and were better for hiking. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 But in the spectacular explosion, five police cars had been destroyed and the captor had fled. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 His precious motorcycle, his only means of transportation—four feet didn’t count—was destroyed. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z He ran down for them a history of other conservancy districts in the state which had effectively destroyed subsistence farmers by forcing them into cash economies where they could not compete. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 If enough cells are destroyed, the host dies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Maybe I've been wrong about the secretaries, I thought; maybe they destroyed the letters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because of Twelve. Because they destroyed my district.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 “The Nazis destroyed this place. It must have been beautiful.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 “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 The tenement had been destroyed in a fire two months before, and our friend from Piatra Neamt had been taken with it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “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 “And what Nemesis said about your brother having six days to live, and Rome getting destroyed...any idea what she meant?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 How could months of work be destroyed in a few minutes? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The knuckles on his right fist looked like they’d been destroyed, actually. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Perhaps I had destroyed all this, and he would never feel the same about me again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “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 “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 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 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 This was followed by another series of crashes as, one after another, all the kettles in the kitchen were knocked down from the ceiling and destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Whoever destroyed the first floor hadn’t bothered coming up here. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 When she’d made things better, fixed part of what she had destroyed, maybe then he would understand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Staying well was a tightrope act for William, and breaking Purple destroyed his balance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Maybe Kino has cut off his own head and destroyed himself. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She offered to have the land checked for gypsy moths and to have any infestation destroyed by spot spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 One moment Grandma was confidently offering assurance; the next, Hugo was destroyed and Seth and Grandma were captured. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z For what is left to worship that is not destroyed? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 only two weeks it destroyed the entire country. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “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 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 Heat rays have destroyed power lines, blacking out communication with parts of New Jersey, the announcer adds. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “I almost signed up for that. I could have destroyed our family!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z 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 It was a kind of writing I always destroyed afterward. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “The huge fire that almost destroyed the entire building in 1900!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “You destroyed the power of our mistress,” she said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The first one could have been lost or destroyed or sent to the wrong place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Each key must be used only once and then destroyed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 “You came! You ready for your little plastic foosball men to get destroyed?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The tykes would be scratched and splintered by scraps of her own destroyed past, but there was nothing she could do. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He found the bear carving on his totem destroyed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They took off their clothes and let the rags lie on the ground until they were destroyed by ants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She talked to Mother, sharing with her things that had happened since the picture was destroyed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 “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 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 The ground cover, once cool, moist, and living, is hot, dry, and being destroyed. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He could barely move his feet from all the destroyed rubbish on the floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Like their battle might rattle the universe until everything was destroyed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z 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 “Maybe we can’t. If Daedalus died he said his life force was tied to the Labyrinth. The whole thing might’ve been destroyed. Maybe that will stop Luke’s invasion.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 “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 “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 Despite Lawrences own initial doubts, it would produce the fuel for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Koffi covered her head and closed her eyes as bits of the destroyed door fell all around them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 And the volcano’s eruption would have destroyed everything, if it hadn't been for the brave little wizard. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z 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 Or maybe they didn’t care about getting destroyed because they were already deceased. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "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 He was destroyed when I got mad; they, on the other hand, seemed energized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The workpad’s screen had been destroyed, the entire flat panel of the device bent at a weird angle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z 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 “If you try to resist or escape,” Riker yelled, “you will be destroyed.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His teachers in Germany had told him that he would never amount to anything, that his questions destroyed classroom discipline, that he would be better off out of school. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 After Rivonia, much of the movement’s underground machinery had been destroyed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Even fungi and bacteria are inhabited by viruses and are occasionally destroyed by them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 “No. You destroyed the body. His spirit’s long gone. You know that. Come on, Juan.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Depends. There was four of those zeppelins, and he destroyed three.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What the headline writer intended was ravaged, meaning “damaged” or “destroyed.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Jewish shops, stores, businesses, and private homes ransacked and destroyed. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The Mud People destroyed everything they came into contact with. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z 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 The quest was successful, and the Dragon that guarded the hoard was destroyed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 They made it to the foyer and through the destroyed entrance, tiptoeing around shards from the shattered door. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z One of them, Turner noticed, was crying as he destroyed his howitzer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Soon, news bulletins announced that military defenses had been destroyed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Oh, never more could it turn to him; for faith was blighted—confidence destroyed! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 Especially the senior from Chapel Hill he destroyed in the final. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z David would never trust her again, not after she’d destroyed his home, his family. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 We both destroyed property, but what was being sprayed was way differ-ent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Even now the ink stood up on the fragments thick and black, the writing was not destroyed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “But luckily our house never got destroyed or anything.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It read: Scimitar of Kampl, destroyed in the Battle of the Labyrinth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 It had nearly destroyed Kerch-Zemeni relations and sent the Merchant Council into an uproar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She wondered if he had been one of the culprits who had destroyed her traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “My digestion has been destroyed. I think that I am beginning to bloat!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “I destroyed that tape, I played it so much,” Kenna says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “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 “Clear up?” said Ron, looking around at the partly destroyed café. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “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 It had been destroyed to make room for the Doors of Death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “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 Whatever had destroyed this city, the people had tried to escape it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 Scientists ran from door to door shouting, “Hiroshima has been destroyed!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven years later the last dense growth of the prickly pear had been destroyed and the once uninhabitable areas reopened to settlement and grazing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 The place had been completely destroyed and was deserted. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Then we shall all be destroyed, and cruelty will reign forever.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 Almost all records were destroyed in the war. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 The photo is destroyed as soon as the order is completed, Bigari said. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z 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 It's the same one I used to power the drill that destroyed Pathfinder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The factions are destroyed, and it was all stupid to begin with.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z 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 “Not real. President Snow destroyed Twelve the way he did Thirteen, to send a message to the rebels.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It didn’t just turn into a sin, it destroyed him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The sight of it made me queasy—this thing Stick and I had built together, and half destroyed together. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 Running around had destroyed the marks that told Matt what lay below. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They give you a feeling that the world would be destroyed, would actually be destroyed before your eyes, if you said certain things. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 boatmen, determined to enforce their rights, seized his craft and destroyed it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z 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 Is there really such a thing as home when it’s so easily destroyed? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z 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 Those who remembered his gums that had been destroyed by scurvy, his flaccid cheeks, and his withered lips trembled with fear at the final proof of the gypsy’s supernatural power. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The boys dived under tables just as the double doors and the brick wall they were mounted to exploded inward, destroyed by the force of the giant, furry platypus beast barreling inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “Mother, you are standing on my tablets. Will you please move a little? Isn’t it enough that you have destroyed my digestion without destroying the fruits of my brain also?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 “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 The strikers’ confidence in the union was destroyed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The bombing seems to have destroyed the hearing in his left ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z An awful quiet spell destroyed all his practice. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But if he stayed put, this camp would be destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “What we found,” Lesser says, “almost destroyed us.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “But what about dragons that wouldn’t attack someone? Do they get destroyed too?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But they would all be destroyed, defaced, trampled underfoot. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Unless you had an older model, the machines destroyed the inside of all your phones.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Each precious thing is destroyed and each precious thing is saved. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z 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 “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 He destroyed the note and said nothing about it to Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “They desecrated the Hagia Sophia and now they destroyed Smyrna!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 “So when it’s detonated, the child will be destroyed, wherever she is?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘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 “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 “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 Our old quarters have been destroyed by the bombings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z 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 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 Calvin said, “The other modified Nestors are, of course, to be destroyed.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z 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 The idea of never seeing him again almost destroyed her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 His food, which was sitting on the plate in front of him, very innocent and oblivious, gets destroyed over the next twenty seconds as he eats half of it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “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 It destroyed all the wheat my family had planted that year and made the land useless for years to come. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the Party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I want you to know that I destroyed that white team yesterday.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z But Mary, she said, the tualapi destroyed a village further up the coast, and then another and another. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Third is the Law of Conservation, which says ‘energy cannot be destroyed nor created.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 There was only one way to protect herself from the people who had destroyed her family. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 “The rains have destroyed much of our work; there will be little eating done this year.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 He was staring at the destroyed plane, his body numb. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for posterity, the Spaniards destroyed all but four of these books. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 It destroyed countless numbers of my people as well as yours. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The stars themselves destroyed Einstein’s vision of a static, eternal cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then the automaton would probably be thrown away or destroyed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “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 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 During the last fifty years the silence of much of the country has been destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “The camp, yes. Vengeance! The orange and purple ones destroyed my home. Now Ma Gasket will destroy theirs! Do you hear me, Leo? Jason? Piper? I come to annihilate you!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “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 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 ‘The camp is about to be destroyed ‘And we’ll stop the Romans,’ Will said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When Dresden was destroyed later on, incidentally, Lazzaro did not exult. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that the bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 You, Percy Jackson, have already destroyed his memory. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was not alone in assuming that the progress of science destroyed superstitious beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All day long they removed debris from destroyed buildings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “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 Only the black walls of the old prison remained, the roof long since fallen in or destroyed so that the night sky was visible high above, dense with clouds and free of stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z 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 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 Most of the chariots had been completely destroyed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 And unless they succeeded in this quest, the world would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Nothing. I got your letter and destroyed it. Nothing.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The faucet runs and runs until the cell is exhausted, consumed, and destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The rats and mice destroyed the farmers’ grain in the fields and in their stores. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 She had seen many mountains that even a world war had not destroyed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Near five hundred homes were destroyed that night, plus shops, churches, and stables. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Why didn’t it tell her how to find the people who’d destroyed her family? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The last communication with those entities she called shadow particles, and Lyra called Dust, had been on the screen of her computer, and at their instruction she had destroyed that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 Highways, farms, and housing developments have destroyed most of them, and scientists have investigated only a small fraction of the survivors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 “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 They drank to that last day, the day on which the tea must be destroyed—unless it was allowed to return to England. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Your mom and my dad almost destroyed two families. Mine is still broken.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The earthquakes will be so great that all bonds and shackles and fetters will be destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “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 If they lose, you are destroyed; if they win, you end up their prisoner. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Even worse, we may have destroyed our very means of fighting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 Another time, they passed by the ruins of a town that had been destroyed during the recent war with the elves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z 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 The clever thing about a bio-bomb was that it destroyed only living tissue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z If we did that, we should have been destroyed long ago. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course. They were crazy. They almost destroyed the world.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 They also destroyed some seven hundred Jewish homes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “No matter how perfect the thing,” he continued patiently, “the moment it’s created it begins to be destroyed.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 His words destroyed the story she was writing but almost immediately supplied her with another. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of several days, more than two hundred banners were destroyed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z 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 What was the point in doing anything if it was all gonna be destroyed anyhow? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z 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 “You don’t understand. What were you doing here anyway? Now you’ve destroyed everything.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of the destroyed willow branches rained down around him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The restlessness of his blood had destroyed his dream, defeated him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going back there in 1945, two days after the city was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “America is not going to be destroyed!” he shouted passionately. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 Only, it doubled the number of sea stars and destroyed the oysters.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 It takes longer but that person is destroyed gradually, by his or her own conscience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Many others are destroyed merely because they happen to be associates of the unwanted plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For six days Encanis fled, and six great cities he destroyed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The heavy water equipment had been destroyed, dealing a serious blow to German bomb research. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “It’s not enough that Haitians get destroyed by everything else,” Farmer told me. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In some cases, we know only the tantalizing titles of the works that were destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 So they have destroyed another aircraft and there is another Special Duties pilot stuck here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She told him what Nemesis had said: that in six days, Rome would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A man had come in her living room and destroyed her niece. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Aleppo is destroyed,” the soldier says to all of us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, ecologists and archaeologists increasingly agree that the destruction of Native Americans also destroyed the ecosystems they managed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 While the sisters were incarcerated, the police raided the Weekly’s office and destroyed their presses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 "The catcher, the sun juice jar. All of that was destroyed in the fire." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The terrified mother pawned the cornet immediately and destroyed the pawn ticket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 The classical civilization that created them disintegrated, and the library itself was deliberately destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Most of the original houses had been destroyed in the war. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Another true thing that Billy saw while he was unconscious in Vermont was the work that he and the others had to do in Dresden during the month before the city was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "You have looked upon chaos and are not destroyed!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If he destroyed her office, too, there’s no telling what she’d do to him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 I did not know why I destroyed those dolls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “There’d be some sign of damage if it had been magically destroyed.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 My tranquil evening had been destroyed and no one had even said hello to me. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 Now we would discover the answer to our most dreaded question: Had our house been destroyed? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t know where we’re going. I don’t want them to be destroyed. There’s so much of me, of all of us, in these drawings. Can you find a safe place for them?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z 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 “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 But gradually, I began to grasp what it was I’d come upon: the remnants of a village destroyed by the Great Plague of some years back. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Hiroshima could not be seen because it had been destroyed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He said he was going to help repair roads destroyed by the war and to build new ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z An Adam-style house had stood here until destroyed by fire in the late 1880s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z How could anything less deserve to be destroyed? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "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 All such clothing was supposed to have been destroyed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 One shocking feature of the Germans’ early-morning attack on June 22 was that they destroyed hundreds of Soviet aircraft on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z 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 "Your family business destroyed my family business," I replied. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “But he destroyed only half of Kentucky. He’s slowing down. Losing power.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Zorn means “finished” or “destroyed,” in the sense of some terrible catastrophe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 The dragon destroyed the magistrate's palace, causing chaos and calamity before disappearing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 And the Earth Mother promised her a better deal once the gods are destroyed, blah, blah, blah.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “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 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 "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 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 If Newtonianism destroyed the corpuscular philosophy, it greatly strengthened the argument from design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 He knew that half of him had been destroyed. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “In the Talmud, it says, ‘Whoever destroys a single life has destroyed the entire world.’ Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z You may have destroyed my chances of using Cedric to darken the world but maybe you’re right, Scorpius—maybe prophecies can be prevented, maybe prophecies can be broken. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z On March 14, four days after the two canoes were destroyed, the group woke up to more heavy rain. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He says the Khmer Rouge government views science, technology, and anything mechanical as evil and therefore must be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "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 “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 “Nico has until sunset—at best. And this entire city is supposedly getting destroyed today.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 “I’m not going to have her life destroyed.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Matter cannot be destroyed nor created,” he says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Her family was headed to her grandparents’ farm outside the city of Hiroshima, and she’d been hearing for months that a single big bomb had been dropped there and destroyed the city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 ‘I thought they were all destroyed in the flood,’ said Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “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 Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “You think this changes anything, Percy Jackson? I cannot be destroyed! Come forward, son of Neptune. I will break you!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She was a shadow of the mama Ophie had grown up with, the best parts of her destroyed with a single act of violence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “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 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 They were not about to see their world destroyed at the hands of some old fool like Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Camp Half-Blood, assuming Gaea hasn't already destroyed it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I repacked the gifts in the box and vowed I would not let anyone else near them because the other kids destroyed everything they touched. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z 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 Neither Briony nor the war had destroyed it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 She grasped the idea that nothing was ever lost or destroyed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Pluto’s birthday gift, Hazel’s only luxury, had been destroyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 “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 If Thor hit anything with it, that thing would be destroyed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 “It is all right. We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Perhaps. But the monster at least must be destroyed. We have agreement on that?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 Before curious or superstitious townsfolk destroyed what evidence remained. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Except, in this version of events, Old Man House was never destroyed. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "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 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 “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 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 “Nemesis said we have only six days until Nico dies and Rome is destroyed.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Plus, Robin had never had her house destroyed before. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Somewhere in the darker parts of me, I crave destruction, as long as it is Erudite being destroyed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 She destroyed the page and could not seem to start another. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 “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 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 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 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 In some places where they waged war on Indigenous peoples, they destroyed magnificent statuary and artworks just to take the gold and silver the artisans used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 She knew that her home had been destroyed, though secretly she had hoped she was mistaken. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 “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 One boy destroyed four tanks at close range with his Panzerfaust and captured a fifth tank with only a pistol. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 Hera sent a fearful pestilence which destroyed the people by thousands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Famine and floods in the mid-1990s all but destroyed the centrally planned economy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Maybe now that the Smoke was destroyed, catching the last few runaways wasn’t worth the trouble. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 “The tornado destroyed the walkway so we went through the water,” JimmyTrotter said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We would laugh as we destroyed their buckets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Two years after writing these words, Cortes utterly destroyed Tenochtitlan along with the rest of the Aztec civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that everything I owned would be destroyed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He had a grin that completely destroyed the effect of his eyes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 It felt like something that deserved to be destroyed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z This black family home was destroyed by a bomb. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 Right among the Temple Seven Muslims, I had seen more marriages destroyed by in-laws, usually anti-Muslim, than any other single thing I knew of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 I finally understood how her life had been destroyed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 newspaper office was broken into and valuable material destroyed; Lafe Edwards’ saloon was given similar treatment; but the general store was untouched. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Three torpedoes. E deck, the engine room, and the forward compartments are destroyed.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 This talk of being destroyed reminded me more of marshmallows—squashed ones. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “The factions are evil. They cannot be restored. I would sooner see us all destroyed.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “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 “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’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 Yet more than twenty percent has been destroyed because of logging and wildfires.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Clarisse yelled, ‘Romans, you have fired on our camp! Withdraw or be destroyed!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z 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 While in Johannesburg, her house in Brandfort and the clinic behind it were firebombed and destroyed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the people will rally around their prince even more, for it would appear that he is bound to them by obligations, since their homes were burned and their possessions destroyed in his defence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z ‘Alas, my cruel fate condemns me to remain here till my tyrant is destroyed.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 One type of farming had destroyed the land. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She would never let either of them know that a world had collapsed for her, a dream had been destroyed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But they weren’t destroyed, as rock would have been. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I needed to get him on board before the back door was destroyed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 of them drilled the hole...and destroyed their phone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 “Reams of ‘work-sheets’ were destroyed in the desire not to bury completely all posterity under a mammoth paper mausoleum,” she later joked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 “All of my avatar’s items were destroyed by the Cataclyst,” I said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 Inside their large courtyard, the belongings had been thrown into a pile and destroyed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 Some have built fortresses; others have torn them down and destroyed them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 I wonder where the gods go now that their homes have been destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The new science destroyed the old one taught by the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z 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 Sell cigarettes without the proper authority and your body can be destroyed. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Conor saw that he had destroyed almost every inch of it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 During the lectures and labs, the men were allowed to take notes, but at the end of the course, the notes were going to be collected and destroyed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z ‘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 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 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 “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 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 Not that I’m in a rush to tell Miss Cook I destroyed a book. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 And, worst of all, the storehouse and all the food in it has been destroyed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 “Yes, he destroyed it. Your soul is whole, and completely your own, Harry.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “Looks like someone destroyed the binding in your books,” said Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z No one had been hurt, but the car that held all our documents was destroyed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 old man said that if you let me grow to adulthood your Order would be destroyed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z |
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