But, judging from what Jason had said, those ruins hadn’t held any answers for him - just a bunch of ill-tempered ghouls and ghosts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s an idea that before the Goddess arrived, there was life—an ancient civilization, but somehow, they disappeared. Perhaps through that Wyrdgate thing. Ruins exist—ruins too old to be of Fae making.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I know she’s having the same conversation with herself that I’ve had with myself about how even one person might tell, and that would be just enough to ruin everything. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And then Mam’s retort, as clear as day: “A man whose mother won’t let him lift a finger is ruined for a wife.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He simply clawed at the earth, feeling the power in his hands enter, pulsating, into the ruined world. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In places there were ruined works of stone beside the path, and mounds of green topped with slender birches, or fir-trees sighing in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of “Marmion,” where the girl was built up in the wall. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Can you sue people for ruining your eyebrows? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Dogs are sort of ruined for me. After... you know, after the aptitude test.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to sabotage this pageant from the inside out. That was the only reason I entered. I wouldn’t be the girl with buckteeth. I’d be that girl who ruined the whole pageant.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now they were being drawn by the clop-clop-clopping horses down narrow lanes which had been cleared through the moonlike ruins. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would never let things get so out of control that a bunch of drunks ruined the hall where we were playing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another beam of green light flashed upward, churning the water and making the ruins rumble. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I mean, I kind of ruined it in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We ended up putting our blanket down by the Ruins, this weird rectangle of Roman ruins plopped down in the middle of a field in Indianapolis. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

For months I’d been waiting for the other shoe to drop, knowing that any small catastrophe could ruin me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here and there, fires had been lit among the ruins. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about time you showed up! Those starving old people kept calling every two minutes and ruined our meeting.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He would see the bugs and the whole plan would be ruined! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The hypogeum ascended through a forest of weathered stone columns, into the middle of a ruined coliseum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As he approached the seafloor, he realized the patches were glowing fields of algae surrounding the ruins of a palace. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t scowl—you ruin your face when you look like that!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“And ruin four years of perfect attendance? Never.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He turned at my knock, and when I saw him I was shocked at his appearance—not so much his watery ruined eye, but his gaunt face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would it have ruined him to say “sorry”? “Too late,” he could have said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

People were standing in angry knots talking, gesticulating, swearing that yes, they would starve, they would go down to ruin rather than give in now. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stay low and dash the short distance to the ruin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because grief ruined your grandfather doesn’t mean it’ll ruin you,” she finally said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She watched water pool around the ruined body of the buffalo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute. So I didn’t ruin your life?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I suppose you’d like to hear the fairy tale you’d make me tell every night we huddled together on the ruined bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Three-quarters of its ruins were still covered with shifting sand; she liked the thought that she was named after a mysterious place of buried secrets. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tres Marias was returned to him in ruins but intact down to the last square yard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s your turn to answer my question, Tally. Did you ever meet anyone in the ruins? Someone not from this city? Not from any city?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Behind Corporal Nettle’s head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar’s ruined ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And your previous dreams, were they real too? Is Thornfield Hall a ruin? Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles? Am I leaving you without a tear—without a kiss—without a word?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We have to get out of here. We can’t ruin her special day!” she said, shaking me out of my stupor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to look at their ruined house, but it was hard not to. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, Will could see how ancient the buildings in the heart of the city were, and how near to ruin some of them had come. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vegetation grew less dense, and finally she came to a clearing where the land looked ruined, burned. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was Sissy’s business with the tricycle and the balloons that ruined and disgraced the Nolans. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope ignored the angry clerk who was scolding her for ruining the window display, pushed through the long line of customers waiting at the cash register, and raced outside to the street. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I was relieved that she was only messing with me and that she wasn’t actually a stalker who ruined boys’ lives. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And then too much time will pass, and I’ll start to worry that I ruined our friendship. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fireworks explode in my belly when she bursts through the door of the little ruined house, eyes shining, face beaming. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My life would be pretty much ruined forever. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Don’t go blaming me for ruining your kid’s life. I didn’t ask your kid to break into my house.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she turned to leave, she lobbed the crumpled ball of her ruined card at a trash can, but it came up a few feet short. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To her, explanations don’t ruin mysteries; they only make them more magnificent. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Duke, then, erred in this election, and it was the cause of his ultimate ruin. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

"And look, one of my nice knives, all burned up and ruined. Whatever was I a-thinking of?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was in another hiding place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Its legs moved feebly in the air, steam coming out of its ruined head in odd places. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them stood still and faced James Daley, the man who had ruined all of their lives. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But it’s your need to be perfect that will ruin you here, not how you look.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Keep your heads down!” gasped Dustfinger, ducking behind one of the ruined walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And the odd rumour will go round sometimes about what Hailsham’s become these days—a hotel, a school, a ruin. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing out the ruins of his former life. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she gathered energy from all over her ruined body, even from her toes and fingertips. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cutting a hole right through the roof. They’re going to ruin the walls, I say. This stonework is old...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We were able to put the fire out, but only by knocking down the tree, smashing most of the ornaments, and ruining all our presents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, the two men wrote in 2004, the city was partly in ruins—intentionally so, because the fallen walls bequeathed on Tiwanaku the authority of the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun above the ruins of Charn had looked older than ours: this looked younger. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to ruin her night by making her feel like she has to keep checking up on me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A window pops up in the center of my view, and I see the underwater ruins. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I said what I’m sure everybody was thinking: “Why would she ruin herself?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After throwing his ruined clothes into the bathroom garbage can, he went to his bedroom and closed the door behind him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My eyes are closed, because if I open them I think I might get a little too excited and ruin my pants, and Mom didn’t bring me any pants. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And come back and find the house in ruins?” she snarled. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

That is, they smell like a virus; and they flourish in ruined habitats. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss her strut and the way she shakes, shakes, shakes next to me when we dance, sweating out her hair and complaining that her press and curl is ruined. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Mom got home, she wrinkled her nose at the sulfurous odor, then went into the basement and looked at the ruined hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you two trying to ruin my life?” she hisses at Dad and me. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Hamilton spoke mostly of the hail that had ruined some of the crops. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The top half of the hill was dying, nothing left but bare soil, ruined by the orchids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Piper couldn’t see what was happening inside the ruins - just the heads of twenty or thirty giants standing in a circle, mumbling and swaying, maybe doing the evil monster version of‘Kumbayah’. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I get closer to the television to try and see if I can find Hana, but Momma tells me to scoot back so I don’t ruin my eyes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

A baker’s oven in the ruins of the shop like a grim totem, human remains bent behind the steel of a jail cell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Nicole was even allowed to drive now that one of her eyes was ruined—compromised, rather. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When Helms railed that “we must decide whether we will be ruled by sanity or ruined by savagery,” his audience knew exactly which “savages” Helms meant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Vanished states tended to leave visible archaeological hallmarks, such as ruins of temples with standardized designs, at least four levels of settlement sizes, and pottery styles covering tens of thousands of square miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys seem tight. Just don’t pull a Ben and Hudson and ruin the squad.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They found their way to the ruined temple and slipped between the columns, hiding. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had come this close to telling them the truth when Rowan had delivered him to Abel in the ruins of the Burned Tower, but at the last instant he had held his tongue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He did this hoping Tehlu would delay so he could make his escape, but the Walking God paused only to appoint priests who cared for the people of the ruined town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Nothing would be more likely to ruin my supper," the dwarf said dryly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his camera and started walking through the still-smoking ruins of the village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now it was home to a tenth that number, and parts of it were falling into ruin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One day he was walking on a public footpath at the top of some old ruins around Shrewsbury. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These mounds had been flagged as possible ruins for nearly a century but never excavated because they seemed to have no valuable gold or ceramic objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their ministrations do not diminish the lonely dignity of the ruins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could see smoking ruins of huts and luaks, dead animals, and bodies of villagers whom the adults were trying to hide from the eyes of children. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d still try, and then he’d give up and put his hands over his face, and you could tell he was doing everything he could not to let himself think that everything was ruined forever. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s under constant threat of ruin through the loss of his animals. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then John Worth had to go and ruin it all by having a rip-roaring nightmare. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

All was quiet now; there was no sign of the masked wizards, though several ruined tents were still smoking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There are worlds that have been charred and ruined by cosmic catastrophes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My life was nothing but misery at this place and now people come along ruining my death!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At last they came to the ruins of an ancient temple carved into the side of a mountain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So he reported to class in ruined shoes, so what? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she ruined everything by adding, “Even if he falls asleep in one of those chairs down in the office, he stays with us.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their ruin is deferred only so long as an attack is deferred. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, I was about to ruin his life. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The destroyers had sent them to ruin this world, and day by day they were doing it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I said I was old enough to marry and his question had only been the continuation of a good joke, he would be horribly embarrassed and our easy friendship would be ruined. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the Great Sea had risen in wrath and fallen on the hills with storm, it could have worked no greater ruin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Not long after, slow on his ruined feet, the young man made his way laboriously down from his hut on the hillside, carrying the twig cage on his back, with the bird inside. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t want to ruin his fine reputation.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of what it must have been like to wake up this morning and find me gone, only to have a stranger waltz in and ruin her hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exacdy what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It will ruin us. Every newspaper in the land will have our cause mixed up with abolition...and we shall be utterly denounced.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I ruined the biggest game of the year?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She waved at the drowned ruins, and a flash of ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But superimposed over the ruins was another layer of reality - a spectral mirage of the palace as it must have appeared in its heyday. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But now that the anger had burned away, Luke was left with an inescapable feeling that, in one blink, he’d managed to ruin everything between him and Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ham-fisted Romans had almost ruined the tension adjuster, but Leo pulled a set of watchmaker’s tools from his belt and did some final calibrations. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“With a cactus on her forehead, and she can barely speak Spanish. This country is ruining your children, sister.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, from the kitchen, he would see José Arcadio strolling through the house, smothered by his anxious breathing, and he continued hearing his steps in the ruined bedrooms after midnight. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A lot of pictures had been ruined that afternoon when eager club members had opened the door, exposing undeveloped prints to light. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There were some clothes in the crypt beneath the ruined church, but Bod did not want to go down to the crypt, not even in daylight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Winterfell’s walls were strong as well, but Winterfell stands in ruins today, burned and broken. A wall is only as good as the men defending it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Almost exactly, and yet the ways it’s not are more than enough to ruin any hint of perfection. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only cared that Uncle Darnell had stolen our concert money last year and ruined our chance to see the Jackson Five at Madison Square Garden. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now there were merely ruins littered with the bodies of the dead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was standing in a ruined village, among the remains of houses and a central tower and a wall that perhaps was a place of worship. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

After fighting back the urge to gag, he told the confectioner, weakly, “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes,” and saw her eyes flare wide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, it seemed that they were always around, a constant threat, ruining whatever private moments he and Linda had tried to salvage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd continued to boo as guards entered the arena to remove the prisoner’s remains, tendrils of smoke still curling from his ruined flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, she went to the ruined village and fetched Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke had ruined most of her clothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they got closer to the neighborhood ruins in which Alec had seen Trina and the others, Mark definitely saw more signs of life. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After the truck had left Mr. Fitzgibbon stood looking at the ruin of the rosebush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bad photography can ruin a couple of good loons. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maya ruins were well known forty years ago, to be sure, but among them, too, many new things have been discovered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Olly’s like a random letter, the big bold X thrown in the middle of the word or phrase that ruins the sequence. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mo sitting cross-legged in the dust and ruins, smiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Basically, Mrs. Menzer ruined our lives, because it was like she broke Mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Denna and I sat in the patchwork shade of the autumn trees, out of sight of the ruined farm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Rats and ruins. It is a niggard’s gift that costs the giver nothing. Your own man Yarwyck says it will be half a year before the castle can be made fit for habitation.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was those same accursed walls that were ruining all his plans. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“They were measuring the starlight. And the aurora. He had a passion for the aurora. I think his main interest was in ruins, though. Ancient things.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horsemeat was too tough for the ruins of Theon’s teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Losing a child ruins many a marriage; he could not bear to live without Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jump down the rock staircase, pausing on ledges to look for signs of her camp, and come upon the ruins of an old mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that you can come onto my stage and ruin my festival?!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The doll marched across the floor, the serious expression on her face ruined by the plopping sound each of her footsteps made. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Why do they always have to ruin places like this with religion? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levi picks up his ruined lunch and carries it to the garbage can. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

An accusation was enough to ruin a person's reputation; in the shadow of a looming Soviet menace, many Americans jettisoned the most basic standards of due process, fairness, or the presumption of innocence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect, nevertheless. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You can’t ruin them. They’ve traveled hundreds of years, and through many people to find you. Now, go make them your own.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The warm, lifeless flesh squished between my fingers as I tugged her forward and held her ruined hands under the water. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The lab in Kinshasa ruined his first blood sample and asked us to send another, so the results on what diseases Otto might have weren’t in yet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d have had to ruin your whole day. Take a few heavy drags. Wait a minute. Put it out. Here comes Hicks and the boys.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the stone ruins of goblin outposts from an age before the founding of Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

His every resource as a pilot now came into play as he held the stick that fought the convulsions of a maimed craft shuddering downward like a kind of ruin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me do all the talking. Can you remember that? If you speak, you may ruin everything.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Though Dr. Bright received only a mild reprimand from the church, he behaved as though his reputation were ruined. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I came into the village proper, I saw that all lay in ruin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Claire walked past on her way to gather herbs, she saw only the toppled, ruined remains. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the ruins above them, cats are howling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that they had ruined the ceremony or the reception. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have them ruined by this smoke,” she told me as I lugged the boxes out to the car. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the elderly, the women, and the children are left, huddling in the smoke-filled ruins of their homes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It would ruin the story ” “The story? What story?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But there was a sight even worse than the ruined forest: the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen it before. You just remember us, okay? We meet in the outside world, it just ruins it. You’ll be embarrassed of me and I...” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You know, I think you’re actually looking forward to Abelman’s libel suit. You actually want to see me ruined, even if you go down with me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around my neighborhood, I half expect it to be in ruins, but everything appears just as it always was, and I realize the wreckage is more internal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What if that one extra detail ruined the whole thing? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Weak as they were, they would have taken three times their j own number with them if Lord Ramsay had stormed the ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘Your ... your scent would be difficult to discern. The ruins always radiate the power of those two gods.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She could see the ruins in the distance: broken, black spires against the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was the one who had torn these families apart, who had ruined all these lives. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Their twisted trunks, roots, and vines wrapped themselves around the ruins like gigantic boa constrictors, crushing and swallowing the overturned stones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom will kill me if I ruin my blouse. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"From the pics, it's clear the comm array is ruined. We need another way to talk. Once we can talk, we can assess and make plans." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Jonos Bracken arrived from the ruins of Stone Hedge, glowering and blustering, and took a seat as far from Tytos Blackwood as the tables would permit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The scar had ruined more than the skin on my face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the ruined Wari walls were covered with ruined model walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had seen too many men ruined, or at least tied down, or in some other way messed up by women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to deliver my speech more than anything else in the world, felt that only these men could judge truly my ability, and now this stupid clown was ruining my chances. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful blonde rubbing on the suntan oil had ruined it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The flavor of him will be ruined. All that forgiveness and goodness. Blech. I, for one, am leaving. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The ruins around the anchor’s east flank were no more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I said, louder this time: “He’s going to be so sick if he ruins that shirt.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my ruined books, stuffed them into my bag, and slammed my locker shut. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I feel awful about ruining everything—her clothes and mine, especially the Ti-grrlz birthday top. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of mountain were ruins, blocks of black granite and marble as big as houses. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But apparently you don’t need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For all you know, there’s someone much better than me out there. Good teams have been ruined before now because Captains just kept playing the old faces, or letting in their friends...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it’s no use. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Sixteenth century,” she announced as the ruined walls appeared on a mountainside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Did the teachers really intend to ruin our health and corrupt our minds? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a lot of mistakes, and went to jail, but I wasn't on the road to ruin like everybody said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They came to California to ruin a man. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In all that ruin of the world for the moment he felt only joy, great joy. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I feel my eyes grow moist and try to rearrange my ruined face into some semblance of toughness. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I hook my arm through his because I’ve ruined so much lately and I’m not ready to add this night to the list. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But in the same motion he leaped up, swung about, and stood between me and the doorway of the ruined church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She crams her gun in a crack in the wall of the ruined house, with her belt of bullets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were barricades on the main roads leading into the ruins. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I don’t believe Great-Grampy JonJon’s career was ruined by a missing Joe DiMaggio glove that he didn’t steal. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The smallest ruin here was bigger than the biggest dorm in Uglyville, bigger even than Garbo Mansion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder what would happen if I told Michael that I think Edna ruined his costume? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Grandma warns me to take the dinner can directly and not be meandering, looking this way and that, kicking canisters and ruining the toes of my shoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Years later, when a chess collector finally took possession of the littered set and cleaned it up, Bobby’s reaction was typically indignant: “You’ve ruined it!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They fell into deeper shame and degradation—if there can be deeper—and ruin.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t even have the dumb rules that ruined everything. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine the inhabitants of the ruined house in their new country, but she knew too little about it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Secondhand doesn’t have to mean ruined,” Wash said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw her clothing, all rags now encrusted with drying salt, she clutched the tatters, feeling the ruined cloth with her fingers, and then relinquished it all, turning her face to the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then, shaking her head, she packs up our ruined food. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This woman had ruined the act of the beautiful dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The food inside was exposed to animals and the weather, ruining it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Chronicler stared dumbly at the ruined weapon the mercenary took a step forward and laid his empty hand lightly on the scribe’s shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I tried pine on the first batch, and ruined them with black tarry smoke. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ruined the exercise. You fouled up. You could get the whole unit binned. So you’d better start telling me what went wrong.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You have ruined yourself. No one will want you now.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even ruined, Winterfell itself would confer a considerable advantage on whoever held it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can see you leading your children to the water, and you call it a story of ruin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Mom had come to ruin my fun, so I thought I would distract her and maybe she’d forget what was on her mind. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There had been a flood that ruined two computers’ worth of pictures and a bunch of framed ones. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was just a few days before Christmas and I didn't want it to ruin her Christmas. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swiftly rose on Fortune’s turning wheel, and then as swiftly fell to their ruin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The only thing that made me angry was that my beautiful skirt of yucca fibers, which I had worked on so long and carefully, was ruined. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she turned to leave, she lobbed the crumpled ball of her ruined card at a trash can, but it came up a few feet short. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

David had never been any closer to the city than the ruins, so Tally took the lead for once, following the vein of iron that Shay had shown her months before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You’ve ruined every chance at love that ever came your way. So, please, keep your advice to yourself.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And of course the ruins were very large; finding seven people in what had once been a city of millions was no simple matter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Every other building is in ruins, spilling rubble and broken bricks onto the streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I like to come here, to his old palace, because it pleases me to see his works in ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He died in a few days, his hopes in ruins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to ruin it, so I say nothing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But as zero came into the fold, the neat relationship between a number’s cardinality and its ordinality was ruined. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A security card would be melted or ruined by chemicals during the decontamination process. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gingerly pulled back his ruined sleeve, and showed her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He said it all affronted, as if Rishi had purposely conjured up the fog to ruin his visit. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now I can see that at each ruined desalination machine stands a police officer in riot gear with an automatic rifle, warning people to keep away—as if there’s still something to protect. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to set down too close and ruin the element of surprise.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Several days later, once Father had regained his composure and both his eyes, he assured me that Mama Tataba hadn’t meant to ruin our demonstration garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world seemed to be empty except for the occasional ruins, as if Tally and David were the last people alive. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Forum was okay, but it was mostly ruins overgrown with bushes and trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Not over me, you don’t! You’re not ruining everything over me!” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lived alone in this deteriorating, blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments, which like all its counterparts, fell, day by day, into greater entropic ruin. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Orion’s white teeth flashed in his ruined face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Me, I’m feeling fine and dandy; I won’t let no blubbery looks ruin what I got in mind for the morning, which is fix the boat, have lunch, then go fishing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “No way are we giving up our location. If they find out we are here, it’ll ruin everything.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They were partly screened by the ruins of the privet but he knew they had minutes at most and maybe no minutes at all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

This discovery ruined the reputation, up till then untarnished, of the volunteer explorers and mountain climbers, who from that day on were considered little better than a pack of bandits. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By one account, Howard himself served as a driver, speeding into the ruins to gather the stranded and rush them down to rescue ships on the bay. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the Golden Country, or he was sitting among enormous, glorious, sunlit ruins, with his mother, with Julia, with O’Brien—not doing anything, merely sitting in the sun, talking of peaceful things. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Sure. But let’s not ruin his fun, okay?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The rest of the parade was ruined by worrying about JT, and when it finally ended and I climbed off, guess who was waiting for me? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not even friends and he’s still managing to ruin my life. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If he got married at eighteen he’d be ruining all that. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Diane was either delusional or, more likely, trying to keep her children from ruining dinner. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Much of the South already lay in ruins. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tried not to look at the wall images of Camp Half-Blood as he described the place in ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What if there’s a roach nestled in there somewhere, ready to ruin me? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Truth is,” confessed Ben, “I have no clue what to do, and I don’t want to ruin it.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“What the — ?” Mr. Malfoy ripped the sock off the diary, threw it aside, then looked furiously from the ruined book to Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the days I went to the butcher shop ruins. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Peru had little money to spend on archaeology, and almost all of it was earmarked for the magnificent stone ruins in the mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It feels like things are finally getting back to normal, and I don’t want to ruin it, but I need to say something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

By the way, I’m sorry we ruined your night Mom, forget it It was fine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Should I have kept her in my bedroom, where she could ruin the carpets? Or in the gaming room, where she might eat the chess pieces and choke?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The Rusties sure wanted to survive. Every ruin I’ve seen, those cars are always all over, trying to get out But they never seem to make it.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She takes over the body and fools the boyfriend, she even gets him to kiss her, but although her face is now perfect, her reflection in that one mirror still shows her real, ruined face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would rage against the town on the opposite side of the river which drained a man of his freedom, and he would cry because the war had ruined his dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is worried Tersteeg will tell Ma and Pa and his uncle’s how he's living, ruining the peaceful relationship they all have at the moment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If a Muggle looks at it, all they see is a moldering old ruin with a sign over the entrance saying DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“So stop trying so hard to ruin my life.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Convinced that her rejection has sent him on the path to ruin, she decides to find out for herself how he is. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And, without really admitting it even to themselves, all three of them kept thinking he must be innocent because if he was guilty the Egypt Game was ruined forever. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents split up—it didn’t ruin my life.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I ruined your wedding. I didn’t mean to. I swear.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But although my victory was complete and the man was ruined, and six years have passed, the thought of him still infuriates me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ignore me and keep working, but I can’t stop myself from wanting to ruin their game. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I leave this place for a few hours to go shopping and look what happens. I gotta be here every 22 • minute, I guess, to watch out you people don’t ruin my investment.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hooked my pinkie with hers and said okay because this moment was too good, and I didn’t want to ruin it by being all weird and refusing to pinkie-promise her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sticks in my craw like a rusty hook, knowing how little it means to a rich creep like Tyler Croft, that he can ruin my life anytime he feels like it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Without a change of clothing, his garments quickly became dirty, ruining a key element of Booth’s trademark, winning style—his beautifully dressed, well-groomed appearance. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do not ruin the day by thinking of Gebu! the boy told himself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was really just part of the top floor of the building, where the roof had entirely collapsed, leaving sweeping views of the ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Last year, Mustafa spilled milk, and the tiniest bit got into Mama’s laptop and ruined it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She climbed a crumbling staircase to the ruined ceiling, then reached out to grab onto the beam. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They had grown up in a ruined home, witness to the moral and economic deterioration of their father and then the slow illness of their mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a great plan, but my only hope to keep my life from being ruined. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had ingratiated itself with the ruins of walls and memory of a roof, and it made it seem like the small dark-brown house had sprung out of the snow itself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wild had reclaimed the site, Jon had been told, but rangers claimed that the overgrown ruins were haunted by ghouls and demons and burning ghosts with an unhealthy taste for blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before making the first tracing, though, I see the newspaper I'm about to ruin is from Mama’s birthday. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before the noon break of the next day, a flying shuttle had grazed the girl’s shoulder, and she had let the shuttle run out of weft, ruining several inches of cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She winked at me and dusted the top of my head with a swipe of her ruined hand. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

West of here, where the war is already, where the humans are killing each other, the land is completely ruined. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You ruin everything! I practiced that opening for a whole year!” grumbled the first voice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He took to pacing with the baby from the swamp, past the workshop, past the castle ruin, and back again, reciting poetry as he did so. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And besides, I now had a whole evening and night ruined worrying about the next morning’s visit to the vet. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was easily the nicest thing Anya had ever worn, and she was afraid of ruining something somehow. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They left through the gap in the wall and flew to the outskirts of the ruins, then followed the vein of iron up out of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At last Lyddie exploded when once again the girl’s inattention caused a snarl and a ruined piece. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And now you can’t wait to tell everyone what it is and ruin his image. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He told me that if I ever said a word about what happened, not only would I never have a career in politics, but he would ruin my life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rachel needed an ally when she accidentally ruined the dinner. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, ma’am,” says the patch, tipping his hat and picking his way carefully across the ruined garden. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You ruined us. I warned you, Jay. I warned you to let the police do their job.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

By the ruins of the giant king’s throne, the three old ladies silently bowed their heads in recognition. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“No, thank God. It’s characters like that ruin your investment.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back corner of the house had been reduced to a slumped and smoking ruin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds we sit quietly, watching the ruins turn to a blur as the truck picks up speed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Now you must pretend that you like me, or else everything will be ruined.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She says, “Sometimes the rain blows in under the door—and it does look like it’ll rain—and that can ruin the whole bag. So keep it high and dry.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I’m ruining your fun by trying to keep you alive, Will! Worst mother of the year, right?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Good men did ne’er their country’s ruin bring. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nor did he see his granddaughter’s worn sweaters or his daughter’s antiquated clothing or her hands that had been ruined by household chores and clay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius didn’t want to ruin a good thing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get on back before you ruin us,” Caesar said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Of course her mother remembered the boy who'd nearly ruined their lives. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The cratered streets were flanked by little more than ruins of shelled buildings and abandoned homes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My mama said so. My mama said you ruined.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just look at my precious boots! They are ruined by the water!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d glimpsed some ruins along the banks, piles of masonry overgrown by vines and moss and flowers, but no other signs of human habitation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He whispered, “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes,” and understood finally what that phrase meant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

European- style agriculture would not only fall victim to mega-Ninos, it would permanently ruin the forest soils. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the meal was left in scraps and ruins, Miles checked his watch and straightened up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She visited the ruins of the Seymour house daily, waiting for them to cool enough so that she could poke through the ash with a hoe, in search of coin or melted silver. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks hurt from all this fake positivity, but I don’t want to ruin it for them. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“All true, Your Grace ... but even ruins offer some shelter. And the Wall will stand between them and the Others.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Summer was snarling and snapping as he danced around the closest, a great ruin of a man wreathed in swirling flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was afraid Jack Palance trying to integrate the movie theater might ruin May’s okra feast. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face led you to believe his place was among the ruins. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Henry’s looking back at him, beautiful and vital and heartsick and still, always, the person Alex is willing to risk ruining his life for. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The royal court of Denmark is in ruins. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“This was supposed to be our thing. You and me. This was our time together. And she’s ruining it.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We had a fight. I ruined it. I pretty much obliterated it. Burned it to the ground.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The ruins stretch as far as I can see, dappled sunlight dancing against their surfaces, and drifting over them are a field of shining, jewel-like power-ups. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He jogged over to a neighbor’s house and came back carrying an ancient, ruined ladder. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

More than once I had ruined a mask in this manner. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Some roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They passed through the ruins of a resort town and took the road south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

So that she doesn’t feel she has to say it back, I kiss her again, and wonder if I dare do anything else, go any further, because I don’t want to ruin this moment. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A night bird called among the ruins as they walked. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they passed over Udûn and Gorgoroth and saw all the land in ruin and tumult beneath them, and before them Mount Doom blazing, pouring out its fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Was she trying to ruin me, or was this a trap set by some secret enemy of the movement waiting outside the door with cameras and wrecking bars? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s probably cracked, possibly ruined, but I can’t tear my gaze from the symbol on the wall. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A black plume of smoke hung in the sky, and below it a cloud of plaster dust in which a crowd was already forming round the ruins. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had to wait until she left to replace the ruined apple with a fresh one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin graduation for her.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are knobby and crooked, thin-skinned, and—like my ruined face—covered with liver spots. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And when the sun shone in the morning, the village looked as if it were in ruins. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You be careful,” said Esther, “how you talk to me. I ain’t the first girl’s been ruined by a holy man, neither.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nodding, he pointed to another door leading out to the back of the ruin. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I’d ruined our last day at the pool before school started again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had now dressed, and he flung his grey cloak about his shoulders; and the three passed out together towards the ruined gate of the Burg. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Here were the ruins of long-abandoned villages and fortresses, and the fruit and vegetable fields that supplied the city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he remembered that his shoes were ruined, that he needed boots. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Mosses run one of our finest foster homes, and you were trying to ruin it for everyone.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it bad enough that my life was ruined? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In four or five places around the ruins, the ground turned to green goo and armed gemini burst forth, Kekrops himself in the lead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But now every stream she passed was ruined. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Zooming past the white water and onto the vein of ore, they sighted the ruins just as the sky was beginning to change. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even if I could believe what he said, my actions today had surely ruined any favor Father may have felt for me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He told himself that he wasn’t consciously looking for an excuse to ruin Lydia’s mood. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She almost ruined an entire batch of sheets, but the other girls covered for her, giving the sheets a second rinse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ruined his judgment, canceled his knowledge, weakened him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re ruining the show! Now, witness our Nereid gladiators fight to the death!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses—young loving. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Everything good and alive and hopeful made her smile, but what was left to fall into ruin made her tense up and turn her head away. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the silence I felt it all unraveling, the audience waking with the dream unfinished, all my work ruined, wasted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was an Ancient Greek city, except it wasn’t in ruins. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Presently one flitted up from some roofless ruin of the town like a vast black bat, thin-winged and spiny-backed, and circling into the north wind came flying towards Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ruined house gave her a bad feeling. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I gotta go. Tell Jonas I said hi. And try not to ruin the cigarettes with your blister juice,” he teased. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I walk quickly back to the ruined building. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wondered if there was a part of Sam that remembered not just me, but the person she used to be before I ruined her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The houses standing among the green hills were a miserable sight with not a ray of sunlight to brighten their ruins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Throughout the story of his life he is sometimes man’s blessing, sometimes his ruin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rain on Roke may be drouth in Osskil,” he said, “and a calm in the East Reach may be storm and ruin in the West, unless you know what you are about.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Daydreams had lost some of their old power; these days reality kept creeping in and ruining them with stony facts. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jason pulled himself up with his walking stick and hobbled towards the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I saw what you posted about them ruining your life. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the secret police conducted raids, they always made a point of tearing things up, ruining furniture, wrecking stuff. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Another time he saw a white-robed woman—maybe a nymph or a goddess—holding a wicked-looking knife, slipping between ruined columns in a public park. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fat flies rise from stinking holes where dead bodies rot beneath smoking ruins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still . . . the further they got into the ruins, the more uneasy he felt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Here's me at the hospital, looking through the window at the guy whose life I ruined. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, she would need help to fix her ruined face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They gave the all-clear, and everyone rode farther upriver, to a place where the river’s course twisted closer to the ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

You lifted your head high and surveyed the ruined bridge like a princess. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was getting low by the time he reached the ruins of what had been the county’s first schoolhouse, a landmark known as the eight-mile point north of Newton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

From gay people who hoped to be able to legally marry and from Republicans who felt he was ruining the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I think my mom is happier now, but if I get unhappy, it ruins things for her and then it’s hard for both of us. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She broke rules all the time, and everyone went to the ruins once a year on school trips. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can see her now, her ruined lace in the mud, pale arms exposed, reaching up, rising up as though she were clawing her way out of the grave. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, an F could ruin him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His career was ruined after he was hit in the face by a pitch. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

After the festivity the rooms had a bare, ruined look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re ruining your lungs with that thing” was the first remark out of her mouth besides a cough from a misdirected puff from my cigarette. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to interrupt when you’re...meditating,” I said quietly and, I hoped, peacefully so that I wouldn’t ruin her calm mood, “but I want to volunteer to work on the musical.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sabbatini, chairman of our science program, was looking for a reason to ruin her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

To the air he had returned, summoning his steed ere the darkness failed, and now he was come again, bringing ruin, turning hope to despair, and victory to death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The blind man had been given the true name Seer and was respected for the special vision that he had behind his ruined eyes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that cottage place is going to rack and ruin,” I said lightly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I remember thinking that the disinfectant smell of the hospital ruined the cake’s taste. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile an old gentleman had begun to struggle shakily out of the ruins of the first hansom. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The crumbling ruins were bleached so white, they almost glowed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tony was a little peeved at having the one speech of his lifetime ruined like that. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The building looked more like a ruined church than the entrance to a mine. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“But the ruins prove it! They prove that I am the Future, I am alive, you are dead!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have better things to do than escort you around the Levee. But now that you’ve gone clean, I’d hate for you to ruin your good sensibilities.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was scared I would ruin it, that things would unravel in the most horrible ways, and that I would have to go on simply pretending—as always—to be fine. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had to be careful; I didn't want to ruin the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita, shivering in the nighttime breezes that came in with the fog from the ocean, heard coyotes howling that night, but none came to the ruin. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t ruined him, but I had rattled him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Before I even realize, I’m darting across the street, a queasy feeling in my stomach like I ruined everything—that last brushstroke that always destroys the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought about the ruined costume—or Edna’s party—since Friday at the fall festival. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“If the tiny beach water isn’t made of pee now, after all these years of us peeing in it, a few ashes aren’t going to ruin it.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She danced around the one-room house, shaking and shaking that snake, until the hay of the beds was scattered and the stone circle of the fire was ruined and the adder’s back was broken. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It would ruin the whole point of the operation if the people from one city wound up prettier than everyone else. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Every time Grandma S. read Jude’s and my palms, she’d tell us that we have enough jealousy in our lines to ruin our lives ten times over. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yummy, but could I have mine tonight? Got to get back to Robert Peel and the Enlightened Whigs. Anyway, Thing has ruined my appetite.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He moved quietly down through a series of ruins. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even assuming that she was a witch, however, it was odd behavior to come out on a night this cold, simply to look at an old ruin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Low rainfall ruined this year’s crops, and there have been food shortages. Many people have resorted to eating grass. Grass! Can you imagine?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“It is not good that outside elements, like al-Qaeda, are ruining Afghanistan.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They waded around the rich people’s ruins and continued across the spit, aiming for the green tuft of the island. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It takes just one person to ruin the whole thing, and then you wouldn’t have your fresh eggs fried in my pure creamery butter any more.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt guilty because my future desk would ruin her sewing area. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered from her last school trip to the ruins that their cars couldn’t hover. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The guests had all left slowly, saying little, their faces shadowed with guilt, as if embarrassed that they had allowed the air raid to ruin the wedding. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All that remained of the former wired-in city were the ruins. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed, keeping an eye out for signs of ruin below, glad that Shay was moving at a nice, slow speed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

I don’t want to ruin it by adding even one more stroke of pencil. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He said they smelled so much that they ruined his whole trip, and were the only creatures on earth with voices louder than his children. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fred the fraud. He’s the one who ruined your lives, not me!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“When you and your cronies were trying to ruin his life.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He could see beyond the marketplace to the cemetery where Gatherer’s ruined body had been buried. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin the prom for her.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako didn’t know what to expect, but she saw that Kobe was a mix of flattened ruins and damaged buildings as well as many undamaged ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would ruin the movie if I flinch. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s all in ruins. We haven’t heard a sound since we came.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her grippy shoes were ruined, their soles cracked like sunbaked mud, so she flew slowly, scooping up handfuls of water to soothe her burning face and arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We were certain that we would be ruined, and we wondered, lying awake in our loft, what would happen to us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She watched his ruined eyes, and saw that they were able, still, to weep. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was narrow, the ruins so positioned that any enemy coming up from the south must pass beneath and between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was while he was walking home, carrying his wet note-book, with the prospect of having to copy the ruined pages, that the sneakers fell from the sky. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Why not? Are you afraid it will ruin your reputation?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed genuinely disappointed that no one had answered her signal, as if meeting David would have been even better than showing off the rapids, the ruins, and the roller coaster. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If Link had spilled his guts, it would have ruined everything. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s males like you who have ruined the mortal world. The only harmonious society is one run by women. We are stronger, wise—” “More humble,” Percy said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was smoke rising from Seal Rock as well, where once there had been only ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The last evening of summer vacation, Nhamo sat in the ruined guard tower watching the twilight fade. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, every so often, out of the corner of her eye, Reyna would spot glowing white spirits in Roman clothes flitting among the ruins, frowning at the statue in consternation. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the crowd stood an empty, makeshift throne of twisted scaffolding and stone blocks apparently yanked at random from the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A part of her was still in Capricorn’s village, or trudging through thorns, or cowering in the ruined hovel and trembling as Basta came closer. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

No longer was Aru staring at the ruins of a palace. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to get him before he goes or else my chances are ruined. And there’s no one handsomer in Egypt Town.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember those ruins: they seemed scary, all gray, crumbling stone and spider webs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And now they turned their eyes towards the archway and the ruined gates. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where to begin, so I start with the night he ruined our lives. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, there was no sound except water from the ruined cannons trickling down the walls of the fort. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mom called my brother Ron from China to complain that I’d ruined my special moment with what she called “typical Simone antics.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The prince who relies entirely upon their words comes to ruin, finding himself stripped naked of other preparations. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The house settled into itself with a sad sigh and waited for the long and inevitable ruin to come. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Picking had ruined his hands for delicate woodwork. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We don’t get paid when we ruin a piece.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were sitting on a bridge that spanned the Kladeos River, their feet dangling over the water as they waited for Frank and Hazel to finish scouting the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That would be repulsive, as well as ruin the children’s dinner. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Hell, honey, that would ruin my image,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Still, just as you please. Your soft heart will be the ruin of us yet.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her gown was the ivory silk that the queen had given her, the one Arya had ruined, but she'd had them dye it black and you couldn't see the stain at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The couch, a relic that Kenyon had rescued and mended and that Nancy had slip-covered and piled with mottoed pillows, was a blood- splashed ruin; like the mattress box, it would have to be burned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the ruined halls and keeps of Winterfell, lords hushed other lords, horses nickered, and sleepers stirred in their dark comers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If a lifetime as the son of the fighter pilot had taught him one thing, it was that he knew instinctively the meaning of this ill-timed visitation: This was a promenade of ruin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the presence of mind to set the ruined vase back down on the step before letting herself confront the significance of the accident. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In order to avoid present dangers, irresolute princes follow the neutral path most of the time, and most of the time they come to ruin. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

After subtracting out the cost of the food and ignoring the cost of the ruined sleeping bags and the lost tools, we made a grand total of four dollars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had never thought of it as actual smoke, but as she watched it curling around Arion’s legs, floating through the broken arches of the ruined courtyard, the hairs stood up on her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He deliberately ruined the thing I prized most. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just this, a ruined town, a dead baby, a few wretched women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don't count the ruins of District 13 that still smolder from the toxic bombs. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It happened on the flat-topped mountain a day south of here, and the girl lived in the ruined village across the stream.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither do I,” Gage replied, “but there are thousands of people coming to see these ruins and I’m going to have a place to take care of them.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Orestes knew that he must work out the curse of his house, exact vengeance and pay with his own ruin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a path, the dwindling ruins of a road of long ago. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But Granny, you’re ruining the couch. What will we sit on?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Blanchepon and I planned to travel to the ruins of each of the Six Kingdoms on our honeymoon. That was what we were going to…” He stopped speaking. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Is this the one tiny thing that will give me away and ruin the rest of my life? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the midday heat and the raging storm of death energy, a group of tourists was climbing over the ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That lady librarian had ruined my day, and I was determined to ruin someone—or something—else’s day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Almost every building from Broadway to the edge of the North River was in ruins, all the way up to the open field below King’s College. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were like odd ruined flagpoles, bent double, with our bright clothes flapping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the towering ruins gave way to flatter ground, Tally opened up the hoverboard. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry basketball’s ruined for you,” Russ says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother says books books books, he’s ruining his eyes with the reading, he needs an operation to straighten them but who’ll pay for it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She bent down and rapped a knuckle against one of the logs from the ruined cabin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He remembered the images he’d seen in his dream—the camp in ruins, littered with bodies; Octavian standing at the volleyball pit, casually talking in Gaea’s voice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Fire Department sources said that replacing the ruined equipment would cost “around $50,000.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That home was lost and gone—and I was the one who’d ruined it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If I do, I’ll mess up the bass line and ruin whatever is about to happen—because something is definitely about to happen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe you! I think you’ve been keeping your mom’s secrets and now her secrets are starting to ruin your life.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Vincent knows that Dr. Rey is right: he has ruined his health by not eating regularly, by keeping himself going with coffee and alcohol. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Doli jumped down, and after examining several trees ran quickly to the ruins of an enormous hollow oak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I ruined things,” said Ear after Arm and Eye had settled him on the office sofa. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

These streets were still blocked by the rubble of ruined walls, and it wasn't very safe to walk there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And that night pretty much ruined my friendship with Ted. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aerial views of the ruins are now spectacular; archaeologists have cleared most of the central city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was a midwesterner: I knew the weather could ruin everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It sucked off boots and shoes and ruined the brake linings on cars and trucks; it built up crippling deposits under horse and cattle hooves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, You’ll ruin your health, and he tells her again that food is a shock to the system. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Billy closed that one eye, saw in his memory of the future poor old Edgar Derby in front of a firing squad in the ruins of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a building lies in ruins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of us standing frozen, shocked, glittering as the sun shone in the ruined window, not noticing the dynamite until it was too late. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeffy, you didn’t ruin my night It was ruined from the start You had a worse night than I did, anyway. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Will you still order my goings, and are you not content with my ruin?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The bombing was brief, but it left the palace in ruins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found Gwin in the ruins of the burnt-out house, sleepy and with feathers around his muzzle. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A small farmer before the war, and twice a widower, Duke was always on the edge of ruin, scratching a living from the lean soil of the northern Piedmont. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At sunrise—Janina was snoring—I raced to the butcher shop ruins. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The thing he could not speak of hungover the little green room like an invisible presence, ruining, it seemed to Ranofer, everything he did speak of. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You are ruined and undone by this sin!” a puritan’s voice rebuked. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This would require little effort to demonstrate, since the present ruin of Italy is caused by nothing other than its having relied on mercenary troops for a period of many years. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it was just awesome. That’s why I’m so bummed. I feel like they ruined the whole trip for me.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted to laugh, but that would have ruined the game. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man hangs his long arms from the top bar of the truck canopy; he eclipses the ruined village, the fields, the rising sun. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Besides, there was nothing she could do for Inej now, not without giving herself away and ruining everything. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Charlie laughed and ruined the picture, and Mom dressed me down in front of the strangers who’d gathered to witness our group humiliation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“How could you ruin her old age?” said Brave Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Take a pin from your hair," Amber says, ruining her Belle-bun as she extracts her own. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He understood that his influence was not limitless, and if he made a move that failed to conform to journalistic expectations, the image that he had painstakingly cultivated could be ruined. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I urged, “You yourself are proof of the selfless benevolence of man. You have submitted yourself to ruin so that you might save me. Surely you are an example of kindness without profit?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Like most of the ruins in the wealthy neighborhood, it was huge and half burned down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One dry throat in the soprano section could ruin everything! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“But you must not have seen what just happened. This boy stole a cake from that shop, and in the process ruined the entire batch.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Her night vision ruined, she could hardly see anything except the moon in the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Determined not to let Chapter Eleven’s condemnation of tourism ruin our travel plans, Milton was making airplane reservations and haggling with car rental agencies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at her ruined nails, shrugged, and patted her hair to make sure it was still in place. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Hoping that a suspicious character had just thrown a bomb or shot himself, he ran around the comer onto St. Ann and saw the green hunting cap emitting vomit among the ruins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With such a ruined rickshaw, you won’t get any business for weddings or other parties.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the pagoda first, but I couldn’t fly airplanes or even sit on the rocks because it’d been ruined by the Detentionheads. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze into the shadow of rubble heaps and ruined buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Automobiles were spotted with the oily mixture; flowers and shrubs were ruined. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This ownerless ruin had, before World War Terminus, been tended and maintained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Stannis, that's a very pretty sword, I'll grant you, but I think the glow off it has ruined your eyes. Look across the fields, brother. Can you see all those banners?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Books, books, books, says Grandma, ye will ruin yeer eyes entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She backed away and shook free of the ruined shield, then backed away some more and danced left and right and left again to avoid the downrush- ing axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was liable to ruin his batting swing by striking at a little jacks ball. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It will be done,” said Jon, “or they will live in ruins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To draw her into the shelter of our little ruined cottage. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How could I do otherwise? Without care, the leaf is ruined and must be done over.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We’ve been told of children searching forlornly in the smoldering ruins for their dead parents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But the two small bars of chocolate that we had been saving for a “feast,” were ruined. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she’d ruined everything forever and June never talked to her again? Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The brass stepped over it carefully, to avoid ruining the shine on their boots.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This creature, this evil goddess, had ruined their lives. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She knew she was ruining the moment for her parents. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If Mrs. Brenner thought plagiarizing the Song of Songs would convince me to ruin my Fourth of July, she was sadly mistaken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most important* relationships, and damage another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fred had ruined the moment, but as the three of them headed back to the hotel, Armpit had had it all planned out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time, the city ruins were entirely hidden. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You could kill her, Will. You could ruin any chance she has for new lungs.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on the ruined hovel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Cotswold is beginning to look more like a house and less like a ruin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

White ash and charred cinders, with bits of blackened metal and chips of bone protruding from the ruin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wiped off the blood as much as I could with my ruined shirt and stood up. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a final flash of imperial splendor, the city joined Kaan and most central Maya cities in obscurity and ruin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s currently jet-lagged to all hell from trying to keep the press from ruining the presidency, and the irony isn’t lost on him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The clouds had all disappeared, and moonlight brought the ruins into sharp relief, the buildings like rows of broken teeth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although the humans did not return to the ruined part of the field, the scents were dangerous. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Drinking up the refreshments and ruining the real party into all this commotion. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What I really wanted to say was, Don't ruin our reunion. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She leads us up ancient goat trails and sheep paths, through scrubby grass and meadows of mountain flowers, toward the cluster of small ruins Alan spotted earlier. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a roaring sound came from the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She caught Nicole’s eye and they both looked away quickly, as if neither one wanted to ruin the happiness of this rescue with some distant, probably unfounded fear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But before she could actually say no and ruin Shirley’s plan, Shirley spoke up, twisting and turning, marking the steps as if showing off a fancy dance. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her parents had left everything to her—land, investments, all kinds of stuff—and he said it was all the money that eventually ruined his life. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The left eye delved narrowly into the past while the right gazed wide and affrighted into a future of blackness, error, and ruin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m imagining the worst, like he got into a fight with his interviewer, and now he's banned from applying to any college at all, and his future is ruined. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, not wanting to let Lettie ruin my day again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So I’m sorry if I’ve ruined your life because I tell you—you wouldn’t have a chance of ruining mine—it was already ruined. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

His stomach had been ruined after he was stabbed in a knife fight, though I couldn’t imagine him angry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t keep back my tears when I saw her struggling with the pen and then ruining her signature by running the ink with her tears. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ruined everything between the two of us, just because I was too afraid. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m tired of his people coming over here and ruining the country, Eric.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Here and there upon heights and ridges they caught glimpses of ancient walls of stone, and the ruins of towers: they had an ominous look. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Afraid that the man had tainted it somehow, ruined it, that she would bite into the soft cheek of a peach and fall away dead. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once this had been the top of a hill where the owners of the ruined house could catch an afternoon breeze. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite denim dress—with pockets big enough to hold my doll, a peach, and anything I found out in the marsh while I was running around—was ruined. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Even more than before. Do not change your pace, or the whole thing will be ruined.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He points to a cluster of ruins on the flank of the hill rising from the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, I thought, maybe everything is not ruined forever. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Baba points out ruins of medieval palaces and ancient forts in the hills, gutted and burned by fighting. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In his normal voice he said, “Well, I guess we might as well cut out. If we hang around, somebody’s going to read what’s on Ken’s question before tomorrow and that would ruin everything.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls some gazed through the gloom towards the ruined city, and they wondered what chanced there, for nothing could be seen. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

More dead jungle ruins flashed past, an astonishing amount of wealth and materials left to rot and fall back to the green tangle of the trees and swamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boys watched, afraid to say anything lest they ruin the next part of her story, and afraid to remain silent lest she not go on with its telling. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the ruins, the Bolshevik Party would become the Communist Party, and Lenin would emerge as the head of a new nation with a new form of government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And I was afraid I’d open my mouth and ruin the whole thing, so I just nodded and smiled along and let Tim do the talking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“One area in the heart of the city was just a desert of ruins. Only the street remained, running empty and purposeless between heaps of fallen masonry.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hundred meters away at the top of the nearest hill stood a cluster of ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sensed I was already ruining our family time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cautiously I stepped into the sunlight and squinted across the ruined lawn at Lissa. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He handed her the sawed-off length of his gun barrel, the one that ruined itself after he struck the ghost sister’s feet. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

By the outer wall, facing the western expanse of the sea, he and Ahmad chased a lone chicken through the ruins around the outermost homes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They were ruining everything, crowding around, criticizing, predicting disaster. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but it was ruined and stuffed in the trash.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, Meggie slept well or, anyway, better than on Capricorn's damp straw or in the hovel with the ruined roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They scrabbled through the charred ruins of houses they would not have entered before. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But somewhere among the ruins there must have been one luck-frosted cake left. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I realize I am floating, frozen, trapped inside a set of ruins with only a small eyehole through which I can see the rest of the game unfolding. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He's now got forty ruined cakes on his hands.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Behind him stood a collection of ruined emblems, tattered banners, and a large golden eagle on a staff of iron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“When I was young we held to the courtly ways, but nowadays the world is running all to ruin.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“That sounds lovely,” Velia said sweetly, sounding like a heroine in one of those historical pieces on the arts channel instead of a modern-day girl stranded in the ruins of the Mexican countryside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The place where they’d find the people who had ruined their lives once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

That might ruin my nose before it had time to heal. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lyddie’s favorite among the lead molds was the head of George Washington, though sometimes the nose stuck and it was ruined. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody ruined it. I left it in here this morning.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The jerkin would need fresh laces, but her tunic was ruined. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the only way to plant hope among the ruins. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to ruin his mood, too. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

How could she, Elena, stand by and let someone ruin her best friend’s happiness? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, we have to ruin them with the yellow star. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lanre’s allies had brought about the ruin of the last bastions of the empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tally doubted a little water would have ruined the device, but she wouldn’t know until she reached the Smoke and activated it She hoped for a moment that the pendant wouldn’t work. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His fine clothes were a tatter, his face a ruin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Surely, when the thunder struck them again they would vibrate, tremble and shatter, till warm shards, sharp as icicles, fell flashing down from the ruins. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

School was finally out and I was standing on a picnic table in our backyard getting ready for a great summer vacation when my mother walked up to me and ruined it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I compare her to one of those destructive rivers that, when they become enraged, flood the plains, ruin the trees and buildings, raising the earth from one spot and dropping it onto another. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At any moment the slip of a chisel or a careless blow from a hammer could ruin days’ worth of work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hungry Joe could no longer stand the strain of waiting for shipping orders and crumbled promptly into ruin every time he finished another tour of duty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It would be downright mean to ruin someone’s debut. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Federalists, who were no more a social or economic elite than the Republicans, had come to ruin because they never grasped it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh my gosh, of course not, Auggie. He just wanted to know that you were all right. That’s all that matters to us. And that you don’t let those . . . thugs . . . ruin your trip.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were in the midst of terraforming the Amazon when Columbus showed up and ruined everything. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Candice just hoped Milo and his friends wouldn’t be there to ruin it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Half of them were local workers; Peru has so many ruins from so many cultures that in many small towns archaeological labor is a flourishing blue-collar trade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She pushed him away, saying, “This is the ruin of all things.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“All of a sudden I wasn’t alone anymore. I wasn’t afraid to go back out to the ruins, to look for David again.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t warn Chaol—because if she were wrong, then it would ruin not just her friendship with Nehemia, but also the princess’s efforts at diplomacy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now he was climbing to the ruins of a palace where an army of ghosts had gathered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

More ruins lay beyond it—an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In Washington’s words, a strong attack by Howe “might prove the ruin of our cause.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giants’ special effects machines had gone into overtime, laying planks across ruined support beams so the arena had a proper floor again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture— must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Petra’s revealing book was published, Spassky was very upset, primarily because he didn’t want the woman or her book to come between him and Bobby and ruin their good relationship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’s chewing her lip, ruining that pink lipstick she put on at the last minute. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There were too many things, too many people, who could so easily ruin the life he and Cady had started together. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I muck up my mother’s kitchen floor and pots, cooking the gesso, and ruin panel after panel before I can work out how to paint it on for a smooth working surface. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It blocked out the sun and ruined the views of the harbor. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s already ruined,” he said, and left the house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I broke many pairs and ruined many stockings running across the cobblestone courtyard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things are good now, like they are. I don’t want to ruin it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I think I tried to ruin this before...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

‘Mother Gaia ..His voice was impossibly deep, shaking the ruins, making the metal scaffold resonate under Piper’s feet. ‘In ancient times, blood mixed with your soil to create life. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to ruin the moment, but I have to know about his aptitude test. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They could ruin a publishing house with ease from their current accounts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to let Momma ruin my good mood. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The desert had invaded over the centuries, dimes flowing through the streets like water, but the buildings were in better shape than other ruins Tally had seen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“They’re like knives. They cut my clothes”— she examined the ruined dress, with its long ragged tears— “but they don’t quite reach my flesh. It’s as if they’re waiting. Teasing me.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

For the actual resort, I’m picturing a place along the lines of Middle Earth, but what I find is acres of thin brown trees and ruins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If you look closely in a ruined castle even nowadays, you can sometimes find the hooks from which these flashing tapestries were hung. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they aren’t real ruins: They’re like a sculptural re-creation of ruins built eighty years ago, but the fake Ruins have been neglected pretty badly, so they have kind of become actual ruins by accident. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The part we were in, the part with the actual ruins—Takhte Jamsheed—was small enough to fit in our neighborhood back home. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Just what do you have in mind that might get ruined, Mr. Oracle?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one fellow in an orchestra was playing out of tune, or playing at a different tempo, the whole piece would naturally be ruined. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

“Pretty sure you and Harriett ruined the squad first,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At least, villains who could ruin somebody’s whole life. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he worked on them so much that they were ruined. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a time, the fires were more isolate in their devouring; the town presented a spectacle of black chimney-stacks and scorched ruin as far as eye could see. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I can’t bring myself to ruin it for them, not when their lives are ordinarily so dismal. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I had been given to understand that those castles were ruins. Dismal places, bleak and cold, hardly more than heaps of rubble. At Eastwatch we heard talk of rats and spiders.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I just had to remind myself this city wouldn’t ruin me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt badly about the ruins until I thought that this had been happening to the mountain for thousands of years and the trees were still there, as were the animals and birds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s just your average takedown of Hollywood’s extremely superficial and stereotypical roles black women are assigned in the movie industrial complex that is basically ruining our lives,” I explain. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“From my ruin, I salvaged my clothes and Ella’s. Little more.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

New gouges raked across the hillside behind the mill ruins. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With just a cough, with just a single touch, I could ruin her entire life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The battle for the town had left it in ruins. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily knew the cipher challenge would be a touchy subject after Maddie had ruined all his hard work, so she tried to distract him by talking about Mr. Griswold’s latest clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Any attempt at subtlety is ruined when he repeatedly catches her eyes with his own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But that’s the way life goes most of the time: the thing you least count on comes along and ruins everything else you got planned. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It ruins the stomach and makes the hand shake. Just the thing for a surgeon.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And how terrible that Poppy had found it first and ruined it! The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On her bed, her headlamp was still switched on, its light glinting off the glass scattered over her ruined sky-blue comforter. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was like a party among the ruins where they were the only ones still celebrating, but I didn't believe their bravado. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I could see that Myron wanted to ask why, but he also didn’t want to ruin the moment. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I find myself floating above a spectacular, ruined city surrounded on all sides by walls of colorful coral. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the entire street was abandoned, except for a few people trying to save something from the ruins of their homes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the pillow over his head, angry that she couldn’t even wait until a decent hour to ruin his birthday. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the girl grabs her apron, Cook turns from her onion, and I stifle a gasp, trying not to gawp at the ruin of her face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some say that the Pythagoreans tossed Hippasus overboard, drowning him, a just punishment for ruining a beautiful theory with harsh facts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then, trying to make up for lost time, he would ruin himself, and finally silence his voice in my life forever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"I think you might have ruined your face," she said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He thought of all those books that would be ruined if her house was flooded. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Restricting myself more to particulars, let me say that one sees a prince prospering today and coming to ruin tomorrow without having seen him change his nature or his qualities. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hope hearing from me doesn’t ruin your day. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On the grounds were the ruins of a castle where the wicked king, Henry VIII, had shut up one of his wives. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to ruin the mood.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My children are all fools. If they inherited Tres Marias, in less than a year it would be a ruin again, just as in my father’s day,” he told his granddaughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little, some solace, something surviving in the ruins. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Find the people who’d ruined their lives and exact their revenge. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Didn’t matter; it wasn’t going to ruin my life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the ruin and liberation of the Civil War came Redemption for the unrepentant South and Reunion, and our bodies became this country’s second mortgage. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t get to know. That ruins the surprise! ” the girl on my left shouts. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Before I ruin this morning all the way, I go. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And then the knife edge would be covered with skin oil and blood cells, and would be ruined. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have got too excited. I have ruined her surprise. She has searched many month, then she has waited two month to surprise this girl.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before she could calm him down, the horse disappeared, leaving a vapour trail through the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Every window was crowded with heads,” one sailor will The ruins of Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

With them ruin is assured, for they are completely united and completely under the command of others. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin the show for her.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And from the trees, a murder of crows, cawing their displeasure at the ruined world. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Oliver mopped up the spill with paper towels and mourned the ruined, soggy pastries. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Camel spends his days hidden behind the trunks, lying on blankets that Walter and I arrange to cushion his ruined body from the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The year of their happiness ended with Arthur's return—and almost immediately collapsed in ruin, but not on account of the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knife is so sharp and Aaron must be so strong that it’s hardly ruined the book at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Katie nearly cried when she saw the ruin of Johnny’s only suit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any leak at that point would ruin Sheehan’s chances of breaking what James Reston was now calling “the greatest story of the century.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was an English gentleman to the outside world, and he did not want to ruin his reputation by breaking the rules of society. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white family came home and stood on the street, staring at the ruins of their house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They tell me that the rebels stream out of their encampments by the ruins. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He smiles at me, and his dimples ruin any G persona he has. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But Detective Allan Pinkerton ruined the scheme by persuading Lincoln to pass through the city in disguise, several hours ahead of schedule. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want to ruin another marriage for him—not when he has two little babies to take care of and he's so happy with Serena. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d promised myself not to call for backup unless I had no choice, and I’m certainly not going to ruin my cover over a street brawl. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I ruined the party when I told her.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But there was another occasion when I didn’t, that evening we were sitting out in the ruined bus shelter. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly himself wanted to take Bluebell but, as Blackberry said, one funny joke at the expense of the Chief Rabbit might ruin everything. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can tell I’m scared to make a mistake and ruin the plank. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You wasted your time with that stunt you pulled at the bonfire. You’ve undermined yourself, and you’re ruining my plans. Where do you expect to go now?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Somehow it seemed worse to mess up, to ruin everything months, rather than years before they could escape. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Luke turned and collapsed, clutching his ruined hands. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I ruined my life fifteen different ways, but the suit still fits perfectly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t dare to lift my head The glass was ruined, but he said, “Well done!” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She says, “You boys sure made a ruin!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But Charlie and Zooey stood in the middle of the kitchen, smiling and smiling, waiting for someone to congratulate them or tell them they were ruining their lives. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Speaking up, saying what I mean. And then my mother had to come to school and ruin it all!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shelf of books was ruined, as well as most of the electronics. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

‘My!’ said Mrs. Lapham, ‘that’s worse than anything I had imagined. Now isn’t that a shame! Bright boy like Johnny just ruined. No more good than a horse with sprung knees.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a slow process, and I ruin several pieces of rock before I get it right, but finally I am able to make my first arrowhead. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow they might be ruined or dead, today they had each other. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theon made his way deeper into the ruined parts of the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry bit back his retort, scared that he had gone too far, that he had ruined his chance of accompanying Dumbledore, but Dumbledore went on, “Do you wish to come with me tonight?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, there was something about being in those ruins in the Mexican countryside that made anything possible, because that night I believed in us—cinco hermanitas, five little sisters, together forever. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he was in the city, he lived in an old ruin of a mansion on a garbage-littered lot. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The monkeys ran off into the darkness, and the old man began to pick his way through the ruins of the courtyard, with Pinmei and Amah following. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This went on for I don’t know how long, and we didn’t ruin it by talking. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit there in the parked car watching the trains until Mrs. Smeath says that the dinner will be ruined. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the ruins, the Cloud Knights dive down for the ruins, no doubt ready to lose themselves inside the maze of crumbled structures. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t want to ruin your life or anything.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Ironically, they were painted for the great industrialists,” he says, “to show the beauty of the landscape they were ruining.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I rescue my mockingjay pin from my ruined jumpsuit and pin it to the strap of my undershirt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally started to talk about making a trip to visit the ruins of the camp, something would inevitably get in the way of our plans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The salt water from the sea ruined the crops, and fires razed whole regions of cities and towns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's about a gentleman thief who helps honest men ruined by swindlers." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The left side of his face was a ruin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, it might plug the leak, Grandpa. I don’t know. But I think it’d ruin the radiator. We can risk it, sir, if you willin’ to buy a new radiator. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They usually ruined all their cute as soon as they opened their mouths and said something stupid, and she had more fun hanging out with Bennie and the crew anyway. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I purchased Solara Industries simply so I could move their plant out of Lambert, ruining the Allens’ land lease. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When you had to survive every minute, you were always seconds away from making a decision that could ruin everything. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The new house was decked out with a luxury unrivaled even in those magnificent days before the place was passed down to my father, who left it a ruin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee asked Madison rhetorically: “Is your love for the constitution so ardent...that it should produce ruin to your native country?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why did some boy name Stephen have to come ruin everything? Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, shut up. Stop it. You’re going to make me ruin my makeup.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A roll of toilet paper was turning to white mush next to a ruined small box of sugar. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Darlings, you must have healthy foods that won’t ruin your figures.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The letter bore, alas, Horatio’s news of the death of Hamlet and the ruin of all Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Favonius set them down in the middle of the ruins, next to a broken column the size of a redwood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Castle of the Forest Sauvage is still stunning, and you can see its lovely ruined walla with ivy on them, standing broached to the sun and wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had been stricken by polio, keeping up with his friends by agilely dragging forward with his hands while his ruined legs trailed behind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shining my sympathy lamp past the ruined door, I saw what she meant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Oh, I have cried till I threatened to ruin my own complexion, let me tell you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goldworking did not come easy to him, and it was obvious his poor results with the bowl had ruined his usual even disposition. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Were he and Flatnose still lying in the ruined cottage, bound and gagged? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The zoo was my place, the place where I felt safe and comfortable, and he was ruining it! The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

She rode it down toward the crumbling towers, her nerves growing jumpy as the ruins rose up to blot out the half-moon. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When they taught, they were at best bloodless and inoffensive; at their worst, they could ruin a child’s life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All their own wealth and good fortune seemed to them as nothing compared with Psyche’s, and their envious anger so worked in them that they came finally to plotting how to ruin her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the clifftop, a collection of ruined temples and modern cranes gleamed silver in the moonlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Minli nodded — and as she waved a grateful goodbye to the village, a sea of ruined sleeves fluttered back at her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The moon above spread its light generously, muting the ruins and wreckage. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then they were off—headed to the movies, to the kind of life people get to have when their words don’t ruin everything. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For these three the site had been like any wreck or ruin. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something up on the back wall behind the ruined stage. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I thought I ruined it with my blink, but he continued. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was dusk now, and at the far corner of the stone ruins a dozen men were gathered around a fire, eating. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They found a temple all slimy and moss-grown, but not quite in ruins, and there they gave thanks for their escape and prayed for help in their dreadful loneliness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you just say W? You think I’m gonna put up with this punk again? I can still press charges against him for ruining my Camaro.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tally and David had agreed to rendezvous upriver, a long way past the ruins, where he had found a cave years before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Back inside, when you said to Chrissie, ‘Why would she ruin herself?’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Are you not listening to me? I don’t want to ruin this, too. Not for you.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

While he ran on, Odysseus with zeal applied himself to the meat and wine, but inwardly his thought shaped woe and ruin for the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it wasn’t fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As I near the ruins of my old house, the road becomes thick with carts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Paris was declared an “open city”—spared from bombs and ruin, but fully accessible to Nazi troops. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her patients wanted to tell her about feeling their lives were ruined now that their bodies were, their phantom limb pain, their fear of suffering and dying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“My sister,” says Caleb gently, looking at me again, “doesn’t know what she’s getting into. Doesn’t know what it is that you want to show everyone . . . doesn’t know it will ruin everything! ” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he himself had made the invocation useless, a ruined totem of a lost golden age. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What? Afraid you might lose and ruin all of your friends’ dreams of a college education at the same time?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And,” I hesitate, “I think I will work faster alone to replace the ruined defoliant.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And Dad thinks I put the bullet in the gun. It’s not fair and now my whole summer has been ruined.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I just hope my bark isn’t ruined,” I said. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If it wasn’t mites ruining them, it was pesticides or terrible weather. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped at some wide steps leading to another ruined building - the Temple of Zeus, according to Frank. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We were to march with these implements to such and such a place in the ruins, ready to go to work. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it’s just the next night, it could ruin everything. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The girls glared at me as we left the stage—I had ruined the performance—but I could barely see them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The shoes were ruined, and I thought, darkly, that they would definitely be a reminder. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"No. You ruined him for a while. But he's himself again. He has his honor back. He's happy." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He raised himself up higher, looming over the ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him if the ruins reminded him of Vulcan, the way they reminded me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That somehow it would be ruined if they caught me watching them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Your nose was bleeding, and that’s how I ruined this T-shirt. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midnight had passed when the thing happened that ruined the festive party. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They found themselves in a tiny substation, empty, airless, ruined. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Always in the company of male guardians who stare us down as we pass, the women whisper like black ghosts through the crumbling streets, vanishing suddenly and silently into ruined buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the letter in my hand, as ruined as it was, told me a different story. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever I looked at rebels during raids, I got angrier, because they looked like the rebels who played cards in the ruins of the village where I had lost my family. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I bet they just feel sorry for me because I ruined the whole thing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I sigh and give up, grimly aware that the painting is probably completely ruined by now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to ruin their Thanksgiving, but he had to try to get her to understand what was happening. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the new blue sky, bumped her sneaker with mine, and said, “Let her talk. Nothing Arletta Paisley can say could ruin anything.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I knew you’d say that. Now I’m double pathetic, right? He ruins my life and I’m still crushing on him.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Several people will be completely ruined after this evening. There’s going to be a mass exodus for Mexico City in the morning. But then Mexico City is so wonderfully wild.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When morning came what had been the proudest city in Asia was a fiery ruin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their flight through the night and the terror she had felt in the ruined house seemed more real to Meggie than the lemonade that Elinor passed over to her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He slices the canvas with my chisel, ruining it with a long, ripping sound that makes the entire class gasp. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell her to stop ruining your life. Tell her to shut up.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did I...oh dear. I ruined the surprise, didn’t I?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Noxious clouds expanded around the giant, filling the ruins like thick cigar smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The keystone of the arch crashed almost on their heels, and the wall above crumbled, and fell in ruin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I dropped to my belly, Otto squealing at my back, and scrambled behind a ruined wall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She babbles on about her classes while I ruin leaf after red leaf. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe a bit when I thought too hard about how easily I could ruin their lives, or pictured their horrified reactions if they were to figure out what, exactly, I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Selitos could not bring himself to look upon his ruined city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“They’re working him far too hard. His dinner’s going to be ruined if he doesn’t come home soon.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be a girl, but The Taker had ruined that for her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

No one had lived in this apartment for years; the ruin had become almost complete. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I have numerous Iranian friends who have the exact same story—it ruined dating for every male Iranian of my generation.” Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The woman turned and walked into the ruined village. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Father had left about thirty feet between Dragonwings and the crest of the hill where it sloped sharply for some hundred feet before opening on the ruin of the Esperanza estate and our barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gateway was no more than a pair of ruined stone pillars, with a road leading away between them into empty fields. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried back through the ruins, made it back out into the thick night air, files in hand, and started across the lawn. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“My stars, this sure is a big mess, isn’t it?” she said, walking over the ruined land near the volcano. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It looks so special, I'm afraid to pick it up or I might ruin it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he sat in the grass and listened to the purling stream, the barriers set up in his mind by the stern day went down to ruin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the dictators they had all gone to ruin, and now there were fewer than a thousand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Just finish the book. I’ll ruin it if I say more.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t let a sad old man ruin them. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anyone who does otherwise either comes to ruin because of the flatterer, or keeps changing his mind in the face of different opinions; resulting in a low estimation of his worth. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But he kept looking back at the ruined machine, and for some reason he couldn’t leave it there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear? Would not such another ruin you?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered his dream about Camp Half-Blood in ruins, Greek and Roman bodies littering the fields. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It cannot be! Why, Lord, oh, why? I would rather the best city of my kingdom ruined! Razed to the ground by the infidel!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t respond, and I wondered if I had ruined the mood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It occurs after it has become clear that Brandon has ruined everything—brought shame to his family and school and sullied the reputation of a girl he doesn’t even know. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

H: Okay, because you don’t want to ruin things with Lewis. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stand by and watch a horse colic or a cow labor with a breech calf even though it meant personal ruin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not that the Impala wasn't just as ruined with memories. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Rather than ruin Millard’s moment with my sad announcement, I decided it could wait a little while. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A crowd of mortals had gathered, probably wondering about the strange lights and sounds that had come from the ruins. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Spevy fell to the Kargs and was looted and laid waste, its people taken as slaves, so that even now it is an isle of ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman: “No crying in my studio. It ruins the supplies. Salt, you know, saline. Etches like acid.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He came over to invite me to breakfast that his dad’s making. I don’t think his parents would be too happy if he ruined his appetite here.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before Billy opened his eyes, it seemed to him that the tones might have been those used by the friends of Jesus when they took His ruined body down from His cross. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it seemed best to him to die soon and leave the bitter story of his life, since all was in ruin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That sneaky spider ruined our Cheetah Girls fantasy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She livens up again like I didn’t just ruin her reveal. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“You can keep your wrath while your countrymen go down in ruin,” he cried to Achilles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anxious to rescue in the course of a few months what had lain in ruins for years, the patron hired every man, woman, old person, and child who could stand on his own two feet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, there was the castle ruin, and beside it, a lake. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I will beat my body into ruins for you. Perhaps I will fail. But no one will try harder.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the garbage can, looked at the ruined silver watch. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So here’s where I had to go and ruin that image of me as an angel. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Entire, streets are in ruins, and it will take a while for them to dig out all the bodies. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If he turned his back on her...someone like Octavian could take over and ruin everything Jason did love about New Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His blue house on the hill lay half in ruins, its floor burnt and its windows broken. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who did inquire, during preparations and rehearsals, were told that to reveal the methods would ruin the effect. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The ruined highway shut down for more than a year—over half a billion miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So I told her about the ring and the ruined letter that had come with me in the skiff. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘But, if you’ll excuse me, my immediate business is with Perseus Jackson. I tracked him all the way across Tartarus. Now, here in his father’s ruins, I mean to crush him once and for all.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then the truth hit her: a spirit in silver and black, who’d fulfilled her mother’s wishes and ruined her life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then the top of her glue bottle came off and completely ruined a pillow. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Conor backed away from her quickly, stumbling over the ruins of the settee. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’d meant it as a compliment, but his words ruined the spell of the dance for her, ruined its very memory. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew it could ruin everything. I was terrified of exactly this. But how could I have predicted? How?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, then,” Mom said, “I don’t want to ruin the surprise.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Either we go as a family, or none of us goes,” Dad says, which gets my sister working on me, complaining that I always ruin her life. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Telling her would require me to say the words out loud, and I haven't done that since the day I told Mom and ruined my family forever. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter to me personally, but I knew what Mama and Cold Sassy would say if Miss Love ruined Granny’s things. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

From the tiny corner where it began, where the first ruin came, it enlarged upon itself. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stack containing my aunt’s trailer had collapsed into a fiery, smoking ruin, along with all of the stacks adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was when he had thrown the shard from the first batch of ruined vases into the river in Ch’ulp’o. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

This theft would come to several hundred dollars in value, but more important it would ruin the high moral tone of the party. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care about the saints, but I was fascinated by the castles perched on distant hills, the towns on outcroppings with switchbacks leading up to them, the ruins in the shadows. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have nothing left here except Mother and Daddy and staying here for my parents will surely ruin the relationship we have, but... The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They crept through a ruined chapel, then into dark corridors. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Just before and then during the Second World War, many of my friends fled into the service, all to be changed there, and rarely for the better, many to be ruined, and many to die. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“My son, fear the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The panic-stricken people in the town thought only that they would be killed or enslaved and their city ruined. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bodies were taken out of the smoking ruins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting at the dinner table, with Cordelia, his warnings washing over our heads, the ruined water, the poisoned trees, species after species snuffed out like stepped-on ants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It ruined my chance to play the game of evading the conductor with my pals. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to look underneath the ruins of my shredded armor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My parents have a way of ruining things like this. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Tally grasped his hand, wondering what it was like to see your childhood home reduced to a smoking ruin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Only when he chanced to put his hand on his bald scalp did he remember the seamed, ruined face that had looked back at him out of the mirror. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The plaster casts of arms and legs glimmer whitely, like broken statues in a ruin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says we are poisoning the rivers and ruining the gene pools of the planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A mile away, on the crest of the next hill, a storm had gathered over some old stone ruins—maybe the remains of a Roman temple or a fortress. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The tenement was a long passageway of ruined houses, all exactly the same: small, impoverished dwellings built of cement, each with a single door and two windows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reyna hated to ruin his dinner, but they didn’t have much time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There beside the hulk of the ruined car, countless miles from anywhere, Pollard was standing in a metaphor for his own life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To jump into the river and ruin those clothes!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked dirt over the ruined melon to conceal it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He dug something out of the ruins and gossiped about it for months. The Chandrian heard and showed up to steal it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was then, staring at the emotional ruin of her face, the redness of her eyes, that the memory fizzled into the past. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were being a family, and I ruined it. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Mother gave me this. She pulled it from the ruins of our home, along with me." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘Pig,’ they sobbed and scolded while they ruined our house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he ruins it: “Days like today. Problem-solving, thinking on your feet, dealing with the unexpected—these are the life skills that will help you find success in your future.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Together with “The Internet is ruining the language” and “People write gibberish on purpose,” this is the explanation I hear most often for the prevalence of bad writing today. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hera was determined that the war should not end until Troy was ruined. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

What does she think, that the Walton family is living in some hidden room in the back of the store, in the utmost frugality, and likely to be ruined by $21 worth of wasted labor? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t given it much thought after the rain ruined it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

One fell on a crowded film theater in Stepney, burying several hundred victims among the ruins. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It made him sick that someone had ruined everything just as they were on the cusp of feeling somewhat normal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“And then I ruined everything,” I finish for him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solitary Ik, isolated in the ruins of an exploded culture, has built a new defense for himself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Bran the broken boy, Brandon of House Stark, prince of a lost kingdom, lord of a burned castle, heir to ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d had four entire suitcases full of Talents and he went and ruined those, too? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Afraid of WHAT, that I would think you two would get your life together and not ruin mine again? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The amount of stock that’s ruined...Now, first of all, give her a spoonful of this.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A fear not just for my body being hurt, but for my entire life being ruined. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because even though she flinched every time Amari was hit, she couldn’t help but realize that this incident would forever ruin her chances of working in the main house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The War ruined us. It ruined many families. People were starving. Making one’s debut would have been...unseemly.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It would have been nice to finish the season on a high note. With a big game. But this Baylor kid ruined it.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"College for Negroes! Boy, what do you know other than how to ruin an institution in half an hour that it took over half a hundred years to build? Did he talk northern or southern?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grieves me to think that I have brought shame to the place that has sheltered me, that by my unwitting deeds, St. Emilion might be ruined. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We were angry with our government and angry with these terrorists for trying to ruin our way of life, but my father said our family should do its best to ignore them as well. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Blood on his face, hair pale with the dust of collapsing ruins, he lifted his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I knew that the man who inscribed it had foreseen these ruins and did not want his masonry identified with the wrong era. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the times and circumstances change he will be ruined, because he does not change his method of procedure. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now Benji lay on his hotel bed and worried that his parents were going to ruin this for him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, so he did, but still... a wedding in that ruin?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We drive past the same kind of ruins I saw when we left the city—the buildings collapsing under their own weight, and the plants roaming wild over the land, breaking through concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a sense of doom hanging over me, and I knew it was going to ruin any chance I had of qualifying if I couldn’t get my head in the right space. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If I am now a productive fake member of the working class, it’s because I haven’t been working, in any hard physical sense, long enough to have ruined my body. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The destruction reminded Carmen of the pictures she’d seen in the newspapers of the battlefields of the Great War—the cities and forests of France and Belgium turned to charred ruins. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Will he ruin every moment of her life forevermore? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And if she didn’t want to ruin her perfect image, Diana would have to get moving. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Rivera didn’t say anything to that, and I wondered whether she believed my mom or whether knowing that I’d been grounded had somehow ruined her image of me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She ruined an entire roll of film by pulling it out of the canister with the light on, something she’d never done before. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When his camera was ruined and McCandless stopped taking photographs, he also stopped keeping a journal, a practice he didn’t resume until he went to Alaska the next year. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think that’s cool? Oh, my God, you just ruined the whole thing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The house was gone, a smoking ruin left in its wake. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Why do you have to ruin everything? Always? You make it impossible to love you.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Here’s what I’m going to do: I’m not going to let something I can’t change ruin my life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sighs, looks disappointed that I’m ruining his moment. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Aztec ruins hold no special interest for me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience of watching was ruined, time and time again, by an interminable explanation of how things were put together. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The emergence of aids, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as luck would have it, my algebra book wasn't entirely ruined. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If she moved too fast, it would rip open and her yellow stuffing would spill out, ruining her Disney World sweatshirt. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My shirt was ruined, but when I stripped it off I was relieved by what I saw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Holding him in abeyance with the antler, she glanced around the ruins of her home and took stock of the damage. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the smoldering ruin of her fence and sighed deeply. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was evening, and the stars were glimmering in the eastern sky as they passed the ruined oak and turned and went on down the hill between the hazel-thickets. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s jumping around the topic—religion bad, ruined his life—and throwing a billion fireballs—Why do governments tell people what they can believe? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And maybe a tiny threat that if she doesn’t come back this second, I will ruin her. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It appeared lonely and forsaken, running down to empty ruins in the mist. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They felt Nico’s anguish from his days on the Argo II and his encounter with Cupid in the ruins of Salona. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Now I can bend and shape pieces of iron I find around the ruins of the Gribley house and barn. Eventually I’ll forge them into shovels, ladles, and even nails.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aureliano Segundo decided to go see what was going on, he found only the corpse of the horse and a squalid mule in the ruins of the stable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing would ever harm me; I was the one that ruined everything around me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her friend had landed the biggest prize of her religion, an anointed one, but somehow she felt as if she was ruining someone’s life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Just when we were getting along, I probably ruined the truce, short-lived as it was. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I will not let this ruin the way things are. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times the beam of the headlights fell on ruined houses, but Elinor didn't know stories about any of them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Talking to herself didn’t seem like such a bad idea there in the outer ruins, where the relics of the Rusties struggled against the grip of creeping plants. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He ran past the glass ruins and called, “Magister Spurge!” out to the mountains and valleys. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“It won’t...ruin things, will it? I think I rather like her brain. I would like to see it unharmed.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Luna sent rains washing down the Protectorate and the wood and the ruined mountain, which helped to clear the air a little. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The following day they passed through the boarded ruins of a seaside resort and took the road inland through a pine wood, the long straight blacktop drifted in pineneedles, the wind in the dark trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that things like that don’t just happen overnight, or even in a couple of weeks, so it couldn’t have all been ruined since I’d stopped hearing from you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I fear I ruined your carpet. The girl’s not to blame. Let me pay.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We grow apart, bit by bit, and eventually our summer idyll is ruined forever. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He came in low, gliding over the ruins. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Others are romantic comedies, a meet-cute ruined by mishaps and bad timing, finally leading to a kiss atop a tall building—the metropolis glimmering in the background, moon rising, love song playing over the credits. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Harry Gold’s fear of exposure had ruined his relationship with Mary Lanning. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The race caller, collecting himself and trying to salvage something out of the ruined afternoon, cheerily announced that the winning jockey, Nick Wall of Stagehand fame, was “an East Boston boy!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scarred ruin belching smoke, the only fireman dispatched to extinguish it slouched in defeat, blistered and weary, his hose run dry. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He always managed to break, ruin, burn, sit on, or knock over something important. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her stomach felt funny again, like it did yesterday in the treehouse before Ivy had gone and ruined everything. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Twice it took her through other Rusty ruins, smaller towns further along in their disintegration. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His mother had something up her sleeve, some clumsy plan, some scheme that would ruin him forever. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not ruined. Just decorated. Like those tattoos people get.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

No field closer than Tours, 50 miles away, to replace the one I ruined. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Pax darted to the north edge of the mill ruins, near the tents and vehicles. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Argo II rose above the ruins and all the ballistae and catapults fired simultaneously. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Aragon, in fact, complained that Saline had ruined his shocks in the days when they carpooled, but to me it was worth it for the window into the big man’s world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, maybe I’ll try not to ruin things by getting so emotional.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One spring a touch of night cold ruined the fruit, another you couldn’t get the fields to dry out and the low-hanging berries rotted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the two dozen boxes she and Vivian have been through so far, only a short pile of musty books and some yellowed linen have been deemed too ruined to keep. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is in a blue fit of terror,” wrote Henry Adams, “and each individual thinks himself more ruined than his neighbor.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at a clearing with a tiny pond, the redheaded satyr stopped and faced the others.“What was the idea, ruining our operation?” he asked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then he glanced at the ruined walls where they had made their camp. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I take Helena to Tatarska Street next, one of us carrying a broom, the other a mop and a ruined dish towel. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No! No! Never! Never! You can’t ruin the show,” Houseman argued, blocking him from entering the studio and interrupting Welles. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

So far, it’s been nothing but giggles and kisses, and it would be so typical of me to ruin it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The captain lay bloated, his face puffed and purpled, the sun baking and ruining his flesh. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Across the city on the hill of Rhaenys stood the blackened walls of the Dragonpit, its huge dome collapsing into ruin, its bronze doors closed now for a century. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Things had been going so well between Mama and him—but that was all ruined now. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

From there, they could hike back to the ruins to retrieve the rest of their equipment, and then ... Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I know you think she ruined things by leaving Dad.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Good luck finding cities full of romance now. I hear they're all in ruins. But lots of people around here seem to be finding love." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One anonymous pilot’s future husband proposed to her among the ruins of Berlin just after the war ended. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By the look in her eyes, I knew I had ruined everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My mother is going to ruin her life.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel from the past took her ruined lunch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At dusk the train stops and Neumann Two leads Werner on foot through rows of ruined houses, beams and bricks lying in charred heaps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not that I’m complaining about a ruined birthday party — I was lucky to be fed and alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smallpox also ruined the British plan to raise an army of slaves and indentured servants by promising them freedom after the war—the disease killed off most of the “Ethiopian regiment” even as it assembled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The goddess’s ruined mouth split into a grin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But I have to go to that school or my life will be ruined\\ ” “That’s for your caseworker to decide.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If I had seen him smile over the red ruins of Rhaegar’s children, no army on this earth could have stopped me from killing him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You know you did. And nobody has an easy life, Grace. Not me, definitely not you. I mean, you had a baby at sixteen, right? But your life’s not ruined.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And because I feel like saying no will ruin her good mood, I say, “I'll think about it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he found himself at Camp Half-Blood, except the camp was in ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

About five miles outside the town of San Lucas, along a ruined path overgrown with weeds and full of potholes, there was a wooden sign with the name of the property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark joined him on the ground below the Berg, wary that someone might be watching from the ruined homes surrounding them or from the burnt woods beyond those. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The only problem I ran into—which I thought was going to ruin everything—was that every single person wanted a chicken breast. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gregor cradled his ruined hand to his chest and stared up at Archer from beneath his bloodied mop of hair. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His gaze remained fixed on the blackened ruins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sure they were enjoying their yogurt and talking about their classes, or about how Ryan Dean West got drunk last night and ruined his life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“So we surrender to Lucifer’s device to ruin our signs ministry? We hand him victory without argument?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And with him all of Elsinore ruined, like Eden after man’s fall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed that night feeling that Christmas was ruined. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Who needed a rooster in the morning when the Alabama sun rose early and bright to ruin my plans of sleeping until noon? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘The Black Rider is abroad, and he will yet bring ruin on us. I have no time.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lady Whent had held the castle as bannerman to House Tully, but she'd used only the lower thirds of two of the five towers, and let the rest go to ruin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then he grows quiet, not daring to let his mouth take over, say something cheesy and ruin the moment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At the end of each day Tree-ear crept away on tiptoe, as if any noise might disrupt Min’s concentration and somehow ruin the firing. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At last, just as Dustfinger was beginning to feel he would be crouching behind this ruined wall for the rest of his life, the guard turned and strolled off. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The other starters exchange angry looks and shake their heads and mumble curse words, because Russ is single-handedly ruining the flow of practice. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cut on her leg had stopped bleeding, though her jeans were pretty much ruined. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How awful the flames must have been, how fierce, to make such ruin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to ruin a perfectly good shirt,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

—So you’re going to let it control your actions and ruin your life? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe everything wasn’t ruined and I still had a chance. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

What series of events led me to be standing in the ruins of my city? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

David helped his mother, searching the ruins for salvage, and taught wilderness survival tricks to any ugly who wanted to learn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He told me I was ruining Ocean’s life. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If people treated me half as bad as they do Hannah, I would want to ruin this whole thing, too. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Switch out the ancient columns and ruined temples for cows and barbed wire, and Leo would’ve felt right at home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But it’s the Terrible Awful that ruins it all. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Mom to ruin the moment. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Shay stayed with them, complaining about the food, the ruins, her hair and clothes, and having to look at all the ugly faces around her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“They are coming to the hill where you disappeared, to weep for you,” he said; “but you must not let them see you or you will bring great sorrow upon me and ruin to yourself.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main character was an aging banker who jumps to his death after being financially ruined. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The two friends slid between the ruined buildings, riding high and silent as if not to disturb the ghosts of the dead city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ira had ruined herself at the hands of the throngs that the tannery attracted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1945, as Europeans picked through the rubble of their ruined cities and burned-out farms, Soviet and American soldiers eyed each other warily. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had the urge to unwrap her, but of course that would have ruined the whole reenactment August and the Daughters had going. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is he, where is he? He has missed the party, and now everything is ruined, ruined, ruuuuuuuuuuuuined!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The two tumbled into the ruins, tearing out chunks of feathers, fur, and scales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No. Something like that might ruin everything. If we keep it as casual as possible, no one will give us a second glance. People don’t pay attention to ninety percent of what they see.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And you told me I was ruining Ellis’s reputation.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Three smoky images of the same woman moved in unison toward the center of the ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Of such trivialities are moments made; and hours built; and years constructed; and ruins, finally, remain, with ornaments half-seen beneath the grasses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The back kitchen door opened and I thought Herman E. Calloway was coming back in to ruin everybody’s fun, but it was the rest of the band. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“All we’ve done is try to keep the demons at bay. Nothing more. And look how you’ve ruined our efforts. How could you lead our enemies here?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But did you ever sneak out to the ruins?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, I won’t ruin your meal. I didn’t invite you for that.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The film seemed to have been ruined, too. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little remains of them but shuttered buildings colonized by bats and rodents and pigeons and spiders, while in the case of Whizbang there is nothing save stone ruins submerged in a sea of grass. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His tux is wet, my makeup is ruined. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“So that’s settled. Everybody else—let’s get to the ruins. Time to crash Gaea’s party.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, we’re best friends. I don’t want to ruin it. It’s better this way.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That donut song almost ruined a whole year of my life. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They stood huddled together with ruin and death all around them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That he had done this to someone, and even if he didn’t mean to, he ruined an innocent kid’s life forever. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They reached the edge of the ruins after midnight, and boarded down to the abandoned building where Tally and David had camped. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Cyclopes’ siege tower shot glowing green cannonballs into the city, blasting craters in the forum, reducing houses to ruins. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Anyway, all this ruined my plan to put out the seeds and hide in the bushes and wait. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sewing machines were considered more valuable than prisoners, and ruining one was regarded as a grave offense. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Dog Squad was there to pull the plug and “neutralize his ray gun—before the madman ruins satellite TV for everyone. It’s football season!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This upstart chief was ruining my day, spoiling the proud feeling with wrongheaded remarks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say after a little while, almost scared of ruining the moment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Gone to a ruin so strange it must be called by another name. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its peeling, chipped paint and water stains, the interior had the air of a colonial ruin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw that I’d ruined my dress, her mouth folded into a thin line like it always does before she’s about to totally lose it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as we left the coffee farm, we unexpectedly ran into another armed group at a soccer field adjoining the ruins of what had once been a village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I ain’t letting nobody ruin it for me, especially no teacher. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ruins of an old castle clung to the ridge. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Are they Men he has ruined, or has he blended the races of Orcs and Men? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But my father tried to teach me smithing, and when I ruined a piece of iron, out came his fist. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We were dancing in her basement with a bunch of our girlfriends and somehow the CD got ruined. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I stay quiet, not sure what’s spurred this, not wanting to ruin it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rubble was probably very impressive, but, ever since Olympia, Leo had been on ancient ruins overload. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I remember pacing about nervously all day while Richie, knowing he had ruined my life, cackled himself to sleep. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later he’d stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And reminders of the disaster were everywhere in their village—the crumbling church, the ruined school, the graveyard where Mama was buried. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Beneath them, the blackened ruins of Stalingrad were softened by a fresh fall of snow, and around them the Soviet air and ground forces were flattening the last German troops outside the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Only a remnant of our eastern force came back, destroying the last bridge that still stood amid the ruins of Osgiliath. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even at that age, he’d known that if his father had been there, somehow the kite’s failure would have ruined the afternoon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Alex saw the ruins of buildings, half-crumbling chimneys, and rusting metal wheels and knew that he was looking at an old tin mine. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If they were compelled to repay even a portion of the debt, it would ruin most of them financially. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They said that evil still crept out of the ruins of the Witch Kingdom—and that old women with iron teeth still wandered the lonely roads in the mountain passes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

From their luxurious accommodations, they could take in fabulous sights as they passed the ancient ruins and famous monuments of Egyptian culture, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Could she trust this dark goddess, who’d given her mother the magic that ruined her life? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The New Smokies learned the nooks and crannies of the ruins as if they’d been born there, until they could disappear in a heartbeat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to let him ruin another semester’s work. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Now it’s you, too. Drinking too much. Wandering around drunk in the middle of the day. Rolling down the road to ruin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty out there. Real trees, hundreds of years old. Mountains. And the ruins. Ever been there?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Note what appears to be smoke still rising from ruins in the center of the photograph. remember. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you go and ruin a perfectly good steak with ketchup?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As I cross a bridge and head toward East Berne, which is about two miles from Beaver Corners, I see the ruins of an old water mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico stared at the tendrils of darkness undulating from the ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So here I was ruining back and hands, picking rocks and building my own wobbly rock fences while Mr. Whiskers chased after the garter snakes I scared up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is not the first time Ishtar has gathered a war orphan from the ruins, and it won't be the last. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

More than likely a bug like this was what ruined an Arizona lottery in 1998. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At last milady flailed away with her hand brake on, and the kind of a day I had built lay in ruins. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is still too much to be ruined. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He said: “Get up, you tom-fool of a Took! Where, in the name of wonder, in all this ruin is Treebeard? I want him. Quick!” The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and as the apple’s fair outside finally shows its inner ruin, so evil thoughts in time corrupt a man’s features.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A mist was in Merry’s eyes of tears and weariness when they drew near the ruined Gate of Minas Tirith. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had brought Caesar to ruin and would do the same to Mark Antony. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Glancing down, she sees her ruined cell phone, the sodden backpack that holds her laptop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The scene in the ruins almost made her cry aloud. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Michael was crying loudly, and Dad picked him up and carried him, and they walked down through the ruins toward the canal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did, and he swept the light over Martin’s body, a landscape of garish ruin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The rats racing across the ruined landscape with dollar signs in their eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi had heard this all before, how Afghanistan had become the world’s largest producer of opium and how the heroin derived from the poppies was ruining the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then she started cracking up again, totally ruining the whole cool thing she had going for her. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Pendor dragon tore free and flew low and lamely to the island, where it hid, crawling into some well or cavern in the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was exactly the kind of gold mine I’d hoped to find in the old ruined house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Everything, including us paying back the petty cash, would be ruined. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Why are you ruining everything? and then I feel like falling out of that stuck roller coaster. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fire spread far into the countryside, and now the rebels are huddled in the blackened ruins as fitting punishment for their incendiary havoc. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“From the south. A small garrison in Moat Cailin can play havoc with any army coming up the causeway, but the ruins are vulnerable from the north and east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That is, that the prince who relies completely upon Fortune will come to ruin as soon as she changes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

That your future isn’t ruined because you got pregnant. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was as though the elements were conspiring to ruin their short week of freedom. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My light blue corduroy pants that I'd proudly purchased with my 50 percent employee discount at the Gap were ruined forever. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Hey, don’t do that,” I warned her, “it ruins your looks.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“None of it! Never. This place warped him and ruined him, and I don’t care if saying that makes me a Stiff, I don’t care, I don’t core!” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It sounded like three or so uglies, talking in low tones as if still wary of the ghosts of the Rusty ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In that very race he was badly injured and limped into Irwin’s barn a seemingly ruined horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stood near the smoking ruins of Montag's house and the men brought his discarded flame-thrower to it and put it down under the muzzle of the Hound. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alecto, the children, and Maria’s body dissolved into shadows, leaving Hades alone in the ruins. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It ends when Casterly Rock is cracked open, so the sun can shine on the maggots and the worms within. It ends with the utter ruin of Tywin Lannister and all his works.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now Billy and the rest were being marched into the ruins by their guards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole of December could have been ruined because of the yellow tights—except for one thing. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Cursing under my breath, I got up, shoved the ruined desk to the back of the room, and pulled over an unused whole one. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Get on your way, then. I know better than to ask for payment for what you have ruined.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Probably a long time. You pass along stuff. You know, one person figures out how to trick their board, the next finds the rapids, the next makes it to the ruins.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I did as she ordered and ruined two perfectly fine batches of dough. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might have ruined Mom and Dad, but she was the one who took him away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

‘Guests unable to sleep in their beds, and good bolsters ruined and all! What are we coming to?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At night, we might still hear them reveling in the ruins, disgraced by drink. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Everything around them—the swirling Mist, the monochromatic storm, the eerie glow of the ruins—was because of her presence. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smoke hath cleared from the ruins of the city; we can perceive small people to be touring the empty lots and shells. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Conservative Party had to hold him back to keep him from saying things that could ruin their reputation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miniature golf was ruined with a lengthy dissertation on impact, trajectory, and wind velocity, and our sand castles were critiqued with stifling lectures on the dynamics of the vaulted ceiling. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We went to Penikese and ruined all his plans. And set the police on him.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The curbs were loaded with tree limbs and trash and ruined things that people had swept from the streets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t looked so upset, I would have pinched him for ruining our moonlight bike rides when they’d barely begun. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, it's hard to ruin pizza and root beer and ice cream, and once the eating starts, things loosen up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got something you could—” “I changed my mind about this weekend,” I said, cutting him off before he ruined the moment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It ruined my career. I thought I was going to play football. I was good at football. It just changed my life.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was built on Indian graves and every bit as much a ruin as the temples of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had tumbled into their own symmetry, and it was certainly true that too even a distribution between the irises and the rosebay willow herb ruined the effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“How the hell do I turn her down without ruining the friendship?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Minli nodded — and as she waved a grateful goodbye to the village, a sea of ruined sleeves fluttered back at her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of sitting on the ground looking up for the rest of my life ruins my appetite. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

An hour had passed and all I had to show for it were two ruined pieces of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Emily knew the cipher challenge would be a touchy subject after Maddie had ruined all his hard work, so she tried to distract him by talking about Mr. Griswold’s latest clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Wes whined that Tony was ruining what was supposed to be a nice family gathering. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The boy from District 3 throws stones into the ruins and must have declared all the mines activated because the Careers are approaching the wreckage. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It would only take one wayward guard to ruin their plans. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And he ruined your paintings. He should be punished for that.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It teaches you how to ruin other people’s lives without caring,” she countered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The andante—the third movement—is his favorite, he explains, because he read once that it was written to evoke the image of a castle in ruins, which he found darkly funny at the time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘We will sit on the edge of ruin and talk, as Gandalf says, while he is busy elsewhere. I feel a weariness such as I have seldom felt before.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You may have ruined my spectacle, but Gaea will still destroy your world!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To be amid the din, the suitors’ riot, would ruin his guest’s appetite, he thought, and he wished privacy to ask for news about his father, gone for years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see what that had to do with my sister ruining my stuff and my mother going mute. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t ruin it with thoughts of Nehemia, or of the duel, or of the ball she wasn’t allowed to attend tonight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

An archaeologist working 100,000 years from now could piece together a reasonable picture of Muslim belief and practice from the myriad objects he unearthed in a ruined mosque. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean it that way. I meant like ruin your life. I’m making this worse.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then Dell punches holes in the bottoms with a kitchen knife, which gets ruined because you're not supposed to use it for that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

This place was scarred and broken, more ruin than redoubt, a haunt of crows and corpses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere houses were swaying and falling, flames rising from the ruins. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can promise you it’s not with some grand ambition to come here and ruin everything for the gringo chingaos. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I say, “What, Jack, you want to go inspect the ruins?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, you started a chain of events that ruined my life. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What with the dark and the deep shadows, you can’t tell how hurt she is, or know the engine is probably ruined. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I started to pull out the tiny cilantro leaves that were ruining my perfectly good guacamole. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As it did, I saw images in the mist all around us: black marble walls rising, the ruins becoming whole, a terrible and beautiful palace rising around us, made of fear and shadow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It can be an explosion that ruins everything, or a beautiful power that can brighten cities. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want anything to ruin this moment. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Far on the other side of the ruins appear our rivals. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Trunks, I think, but I don’t answer because I don’t want to ruin Ruby’s fun. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried I might ruin your wrestling career.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I knew I could ruin the magic around us, but I had to ask him what Cecile wouldn’t tell me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be seeing Rufus like this, but I had to know he was okay, even if it ruins the experience a little bit. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everything explodes inside Mark at once—he’s not going to let this sorry excuse for a human ruin their chance to escape. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Worse, he’s convinced that his dream of Dino-land is being ruined by all the focus on the Holocaust, the swastikas, and Chokecherry’s past. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Their host frowned as if he didn’t appreciate Frank ruining his good mood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The last thing Booth needs is for his escape to be ruined by a runaway horse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We have encamped upon the shore; abandoned our encampments; and now we have set off, at last, from the ruins of Norfolk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Just take a look at this. Now we really ruined.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ruins of the old cathedral were demolished except for the crypt, where the former bishops of Chutreaux lay buried. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

"You'd like that, wouldn't you? To see my prize reduced to ruins and ashes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Your words could ruin someone's life. Did you ever think about that?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But that didn't make up for the fact that she was currently ruining my precious teen years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her temples were neglected; her altars foul with cold ashes; her favorite towns deserted and falling in ruins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany wedged herself into that comer, making a nest of sorts by tearing up handfuls of the grass that grew around the ruins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, the next time I find you encouraging people like that and ruining my investment, I’m gonna kick you out on your behind. Is that clear?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They called and squawked and swirled in great clouds before descending on the ruined village, chirping and fussing and circling near. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I would have told the table that, but they were really having fun being cynical, and I didn’t want to ruin it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But they got off right after you, and it didn’t look like anyone was following them. Maddy said they were heading straight for the ruins. We’re supposed to meet them there tomorrow night” “Tomorrow?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Why was Ucho here, and how might he ruin my plans? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sir Ewan drove the dragon from the inn by setting the ruins ablaze. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I doused part of the hall and then the craft room, feeling a wave of sorrow for the ruin of Gran’s beautiful cotton prints and colorful yarns. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As if life had in an instant retreated to some point far inside her, leaving the body to its automatic ruin. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He saw a pair of uniformed men approaching from amid ruined machinery and tanks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dress’s skirt, which resembled a tutu from one of Degas’s paintings, was ruined. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never been to that ruined church before, in spite of having traveled through those parts many times. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black gown clings, his shoes have been ruined. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a strange way it tasted exactly like the tea she used to prepare for Mother in the ruined village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I had ruined a girl's face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“This place is too pretty to be ruined by the likes of us.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody was doing any unnecessary movements unless their name was Peaches Jones, who was setting out to ruin Big Joe’s funeral. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure my eyesight is ruined from the sun glistening off all that shiny golden hair,” she says. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“It’s behind the house, madam; it’s terrible muddy back there. Your gown will be ruined.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I may have ruined my life, Armpit thought, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His arms were taut and muscled, but useless; it was clear that the huge waves were going to be the ruin of him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We shall leave them ruined and wasted, broken and shattered, torn in a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“God. I just feel so bad. His birthday’s coming up. Proms in two weeks. Like, I'm pretty sure I just ruined everyone’s senior prom.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Are you satisfied now that you have ruined me for the rest of the evening?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks I’m going to ruin his grade. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through the ruined tunnel and stood upon a heap of stones, gazing at the dark rock of Orthanc, and its many windows, a menace still in the desolation that lay all about it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were more ruins now, after the Russians’ bombing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There was her rope; there were the splintered ruins of her platform. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s got the lights on. He’s sitting there like he’s reading. Jesus, how that guy does read. You’d think he’d ruin his eyes. He’s got a glass of beer in his hand.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did your parents try to ruin all your costumes by making them weather appropriate? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The night got chilly fast, so Grover and I collected old boards from the ruined house, and Thalia zapped them with an electric shock to start a campfire. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I ruined your trip. You were too young. You were—” He broke down. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This ruin must be called by another name. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who she was calling and what the big emergency was and why his birthday was ruined. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

What if this was fate and he’d ruin it by being...well, himself? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

By sunset the beach was pretty much deserted, and the riot officers who were left behind were firing warning shots at anyone who dared to come close to the ruined machines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

With the clouds gone, she could just see the ruins from here. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The robust corn in the fields, already two feet high, pointed to an exuberant harvest; with equal force the ruined territory had advertised reckonings to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He charged that the roses I used to decorate their party tent ruined the hem of the bride’s dress and caused her aunt to trip and break her leg. “I got threatening phone calls daily. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once, I ruined Thanksgiving by going on a rant about the women having to cook all day while the men just sat around, scratching their butts. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How Shelob came there, flying from ruin, no tale tells, for out of the Dark Years few tales have come. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

All the food that Jack had cooked for us lay on the ground behind us, ruined. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids from Aphrodite’s cabin were screaming because their hairdos had been ruined and their clothes pooped on. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And like she was delivering the weather, Mother said, “Constantine is no longer employed here. Now let’s get all these trunks unpacked before you ruin your clothes.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She might have the very proof that Ned needed to bring the Lannisters to ruin, and if it came to war, they would need the Arryns and the eastern lords who owed them service. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“All I could hear in my head was Dad’s voice rambling on about careless mistakes and how they would ruin my future.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think that we’re injured. Mother. However, you have just ruined my stomach for the next few days.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to the edge of the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You should hope no one else hears about this—it would ruin your reputation. Nox would leave you for Cain.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You want to take your daughter and ruin her life as well!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor had a knack for preaching under her breath, and you felt ruined if you thought she was preaching about you. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A tower stood in the center of the ruin—though it didn’t look as if it would be standing much longer. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to walk to the Master Oak, but that was ruined, too, with Bill Corso’s big, ugly initials. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Burnt him up. Might've ruined his little vacation," Ghost topped off, laughing and slapping Lu's hand. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Beryl’s best skirt was ruined that day, and her dad made her pay for a new one out of her next week’s wages. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His enigmatic beauty seemed better suited for dim Gothic chambers and the silence of ruined castles, aristocracy that had cracked around the edges, clothed itself in ivy, and crawled back into the wilderness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told them about Great Zimbabwe, the ancient ruined city to the south, and of Monomatapa, who founded the Shona Empire. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When humans completely ruin the Fourth World, it is up to us Holy Beings to start again.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Why were there no pictures of his father in this part of the world or that, riding with frost-bearded men on Arctic sledges or examining creeper-covered ruins in the jungle? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you seem to have finally ruined my carpet. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And you have no idea how much I wish I didn’t ruin that girl’s life. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Even May’s death had not ruined the river for me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these projects acquired construction materials by cannibalizing old monuments, thereby hastening the process of creating ruins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clerks were very nasty and no one wanted to write up our paperwork, but we didn’t let those fools ruin our marriage. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jafer's right wrist ended in the ruin of tom flesh and splintered bone left by Ghost's jaws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the same time, a wrong bid could lead to ruin: “Fortunes were being made—and lost—daily.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Deviations in arc of a hundredth of a milli-second—invisible to the eye—were enough to send the beam wildly out of focus—enough to blast hundreds of square miles of Earth into incandescent ruin. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

If we did, we would return to find the house in ruins. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You’ve attempted to ruin my dreams and ideals. I get enough from my mother as it is. You’re just being cruel.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I remembered the ruined letter that had been stuck to my tiny chest. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

With what he knows, he could ruin everything. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Smoldering ruins and the sporadic whistle of artillery greeted the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Corps of the Union army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Monsters were everywhere - hundreds of ogres, Earthborn and Cyclopes milling through the ruins - but most of them were gathered at the Parthenon, watching the ceremony in progress. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I could get them both busted for attacking me...for breaking my camera...for ruining my chance to win the competition. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s a whole city in ruins, and more of his kind willing to take advantage of others’ misery,” he explained. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My journal entry for the day: “Exchange students are ruining our country. ” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked through town, Ellsberg watched villagers stooped over in the remains of their homes, sifting the ruins for anything salvageable. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

These people who had risked their own security to help runaways would be ruined, fined, imprisoned. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at him to see him staring down at the ruins already, as if searching for something. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I tried to impersonate a British person, like that, Libby would tell me I’m working too hard and ruining the scene. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, the burned-out city became a magnet for the curious who clogged the streets to see the ruins and poke through the rubble for souvenirs. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the rivers and rails, the ruins and natural veins of ore, and dozens of escape routes he’d devised in case he was ever pursued by city authorities. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then Volkheimer urges him back and climbs halfway up the ruined staircase and begins whaling away at the edges of the hole with a piece of rebar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Shagga hacked the door apart with three great blows of his axe and kicked his way through the ruins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Got it,” I said to Robbie, who also could not ruin my mood no matter how he was acting. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That was ruined by the sound of a bell. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Apparently, if they did not get the cane into the boiling vat within forty-eight hours—preferably twenty-four hours—their crop would be ruined. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No shortage of accommodation,” Bushra says as we pass yet another abandoned ruin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her dear son Aeneas was all but ruined, she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve ruined everything!” she screeched as we huddled together in the corner of the kitchen closest to the door. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Like us competing alongside each other would somehow ruin the point I was trying to make. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Finally, the ruins of Stalingrad appeared—a dark line of demolished buildings stretching endlessly along the Volga. Then came the first explosions of antiaircraft artillery shells.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“So he’s just going to show up here? This guy doesn’t really live in the ruins, does he?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could ruin any chance she has for new lungs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When he met the Lady, she’d been sitting in her ruined garden, still as a stone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their stomachs were empty since the porridge had been ruined, and Mama would not hear of fixing more. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

If he went to check on her in the prison and found she wasn’t there, her and Ekon’s plan was ruined before it began. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Then we wait” Tally squinted, peering at the ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

What was surely the oldest celebration of all, the sharing of plenty, had fallen to ruin in our hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you walk into another room now so your face doesn’t ruin everything? There’s no reason for your mother to suffer. As you’re walking, please say, ‘Mom, please listen to me.’ Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Little Tilly stood there, her lace dress wet and ruined, but she said nothing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was very angry, but not so angry that I would ruin Chandra’s happiness. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched from the vines and boulders of the giants’ ruin, two miles off. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used to be my friends and they were the only people I could turn to after ruining things with you and Dylan and Samantha. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The chairs, the carpet, the tables—all had rotted away; they sagged in mutual ruin, victims of the despotic force of time. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If she comes, tell her to hide at her castle ruins...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All I could think was, Oh no, is everything going to get ruined? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Dude, we didn’t want to ruin your moment.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"I dunno. He called me a baby and said I ruin everything. And..." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He saw how she flinched when his ruined face got too close. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He said nothing to his mother, indeed he had no power to utter a word, and Venus left him with the happy confidence that he would swiftly bring about Psyche’s ruin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally thought what to say and began to write, I ruined three sheets of paper by crying on them and a fourth because I forgot to misspell words. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to ruin the moment, but she couldn’t stop thinking of Leo and how he would never have a fresh start. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sorry for ruining the ending, but if you didn’t see it coming, you really should read more stories. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The ruins of her belongings lay around her, but she didn’t bother to check them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older man explained that he was in bad health—working in the tobacco factory had ruined his lungs and heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I m not doing nothing, I said, my voice muffled in my ruined shirt. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This woman worked very hard to ruin my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For when the Orsini realized, only too late, that the greatness of the Duke and of the Church spelled their ruin, they called a meeting at Magione in the territory of Perugia. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

One day on course due west, off central Krete, the ship caught a fresh norther, and we ran southward before the wind while Zeus piled ruin ahead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that muffins have to be baked right away, right after they’ve been ladled out, or they’ll be flat and ruined. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its gates lay in ruin; but over the barricade of beams and stones within no enemy as yet had passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They’d left Pax at the head of the access road that led to the ruins of an old rope mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Wick was out there, plotting, sending these dead things to ruin her life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then in rage the old Dragon of Pendor rose up breaking the tower with the writhing of his body, and beating his wings that spanned the whole width of the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tally took one last look around, taking in the ruins splayed out below them, the dark woods, the pearly strip of river stretching toward the glowing sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s an old town, full of Roman artifacts, history, and ruins. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Except when I hear the horn, I look outside my window and it’s raining and JB is jumping into a car with Miss Sweet Tea and her dad, ruining my plan. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

It will only crack and burn, and it’s so beautiful, Set Jorah will call me a fool if I ruin it, and yet, and yet ... A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, Jason had wandered the ruins, crying and alone, calling for his mother and for Thalia - until the wolves came for him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ruins continued under her feet Out here they were almost completely submerged, only a few shapeless masses rising through the grasp of vegetation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“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

At the other end of the Street of the Sisters stood the fire- blackened ruins of the Dragonpit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Grandmother Lucy says, ‘A lady always honors her societal obligations, no matter how it ruins her more pleasant plans.’ Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This could easily ruin what I was convinced would be the best weekend of my life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You really hold on to a grudge, don’t you? Hasn’t it been a millennium since he ruined your outfit?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seeing them now, at night, the ruins felt much more real to Tally. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The name echoed, as if voices were whispering it through the ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You are a terrible, grouchy, horrible person. You are mean to Miss Josie and Mr. Jeet. You are making us move for no reason. And now you are ruining our last Christmas here.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Change myself into a better person that didn’t ruin picnics. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She said now the goats have a taste for them. She’ll never be able to keep them out of the garden. I’ve single-handedly ruined everything.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I toss the ruined ones over my shoulder, not allowing for delays. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The primers would probably fit if he could get them out without ruining them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As a surprise for Harry, they had painted a large banner on one of the sheets Scabbers had ruined. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They stole books, ruined paintings, and broke scientifical equipment stored there by the professors of King’s College. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and Chaol really delight in ruining any fun I might have, don’t you? I like attending parties.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He strolled through the ruined props, platforms, and special effects. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The perfect way to ruin a perfect morning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then I remembered how you ruined it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Nathan was changed, I could see, but he only seemed more devout, and it was hard to name the ruin in that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll ruin your aunt’s life if you don’t. You can’t understand business begun in China. Just do what I say. Go.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he reads that note and passes it to Dallas or Carter, everything will be ruined. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Tristan!” yelled Ms. Rubin, but Tristan didn’t even care about the spilled powder on the floor or that he ruined the experiment. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If it stuck in the plumbing pipes, our plan would be ruined. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I bend down to pick up the ruined bracelet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He can’t immediately make himself detestable—that would ruin everything—but something in his manner must hint at trouble ahead. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Things were so simple at the start, before grammar came along and ruined things. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t even give him his salary, because who was going to pay for all those stupid ruined oranges? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The man goes to sleep in a golden palace and wakes up in a set of ruins, for the man had been the victim of illusions conjured by the demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, I totally ruined another one of your relationships.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

World War II had just ended, and Greece was in ruins. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He performed alchemy experiments in the kitchen, filling the house with fetid smoke and ruining pots and pans with solid substances that stuck to their bottoms and were impossible to remove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In groups of twenty or thirty, tourists swarmed through the ruins, milling around the villas, wandering the cobblestone paths, gawking at the colourful frescoes and mosaics. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To keep these horrible numbers from ruining the Pythagorean doctrine, the irrationals were kept secret. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Leo felt bad about ruining all these ancient inventions, but this was life or death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a bonfire roaring in the ruins of an old house, little more than two crumbling stone walls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Careful,” I warned as we picked our way around the holes in the ruined bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark: gray clouds above black ruin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Before the gas filled the halls of our ruined school, we regularly filled that space with another kind of combustible, invisible poison. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You go all weekend without logging on or calling me and yet you find time to call him in your continuing attempts to ruin my social life through the magic of song?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“A letter like this,” Milo mumbled despondently, “could ruin any mess officer in the world.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It started bleeding again, and I cut off the cleaner pieces of my ruined shirt to fashion a makeshift bandage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wearing masks and goggles, sitting in their rags by the side of the road like ruined aviators. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Is that it?—and almost ruined my lecture. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Backward she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He could see dark shapes moving through die charred ruins of the riverfront wharfs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Much of Russia lay in ruins that summer. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"And if I were to contest the case, my whole story would come out and one of the most valuable aspects of the incident would be ruined." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The smoking, ruined villages, the broken pieces of brick in the street, the frozen corpses, the shattered walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the scurrying rats and lice: how can they live like that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He roared and shook to be free, to crawl away, to escape into the ruins of the night. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And you managed to ruin the clothes I made for you, which were impossible to ruin.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t gotten permission to leave the temple, so this was probably going to ruin the second chance Kamau had given him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the year that had passed, not much had changed, except that the building had fallen into even greater ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Together isn’t quite the word for an evil and beautiful team, ruining people and enjoying it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He and Smith talked about whether or not to run Seabiscuit, and Howard stressed that he didn’t want to ruin another day for Santa Anita and the horse’s fans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he believed that the quickest way to ruin a horse was to overwork him, Smith resorted to creative solutions to overcome Seabiscuit’s weight problem. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to give you any clues, or provide you with any information to help you reach the egg. That would ruin all the fun, wouldn’t it?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin your road trip—but for five hundred American dollars a week, I will.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he thought I ruined the picture. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There’s room for everyone, I said to myself, in this beloved country, if only apartheid weren’t ruining it for everybody. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter- gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A row of trees hid the ruins from view. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She got me up too early and said we were going to IHOP, just the two of us like we used to do before Sekani came along and ruined everything. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was lopping off its head with a cleaver — ruining the meat! the servants yelled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay,” he mumbled, nursing a beer. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Remove this foul addition at once! Remove it, I say! You are ruining a great work of art! Where am I? What is going on?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And when I say that her hand brushes up against mine, and I just grab hers because it feels like there is less to ruin now. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Are you on the brink of rack and ruin, or wrack and ruin? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew better than to ruin it with chatter. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

His lips were too ruined, too swollen, and his tongue too blistered for him to be given fluid by mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wished Clement would go away; he was on his way to ruining everything. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d hate it, and I hated my dad for all his plans to rip me out of Greenwood and ruin my life. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s your legal right. His cattle ruined your crop. He owes you the money for it.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the eye of the dying gull, who knew that everything was ruined forever, because that's how it always is. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They mustn’t meddle with the system and bring it all clanging down to ruin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went straight to the boys at the butcher shop ruins. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She winked at Lord Garnel, and he paled, knocking over his goblet of hot cocoa and ruining the papers before him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This afternoon he had eaten lunch there with some of the Tizerkane, including Ruza, who taught him the phrase “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was ruins—a few stones in a square, a slight depression for the basement, and trees growing right up through what had once been the living room. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight. Before it goes any further. Before we are completely ruined.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metallic greyhounds materialized from the ruins, racing towards her from different directions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Riptide out of my ruined jeans, told Tyson, “Come on!” and jumped through the gaping hole in the side of the building. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel them course their way down my cheek, exposing the ugly, ruined skin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We were having so much fun, and now he’s ruining it. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

What if she’d ruined everything tonight, and Peris would always see her like this—squinty eyes and frizzy hair—even after she had the operation? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They cut to what is supposed to be live footage of a female reporter, encased in a protective suit, standing in front of the ruins of the Justice Building in 13. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Said he wouldn’t let me ruin his tryout.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Getting “reamed out” by Ted can ruin their whole day; a morsel of praise will be savored for weeks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie switched off the torch and stared out the window, her night vision ruined by trying to read the map. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

You could get caught up in the ruin or you could escape it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I did not know I was ruining the taste,” Ranofer said humbly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Percy led them right to it, on an abandoned stretch of hillside overlooking the ruined Forum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But there had been no king for nearly a thousand years, and even the ruins of Kings’ Norbury were covered with grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Bringing Maisie would ruin everything even worse than it was already ruined. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On the river there had been wonders to behold: giant turtles, ruined cities, stone men, naked septas. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not only was my year in ruins, but my name was mud at C Average. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The last three pages of the album were devoted to boys in Greek tunics, crowned with laurel, playing among false Hellenic ruins, with chubby bottoms and heavy eyelashes—repulsive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew how to spring traps and ruin a hunter’s aim, but we had no idea if we’d need our skills this time. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fun’s fun, but the man was wet as a pond, he was ruining my dress, and I was already dressed for company. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, the scholars stumbled up a steep hillside of old, ruined goblin houses. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers, and then the town proper in a line of ruined structures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Cars were honking, a passerby with a ruined bag of groceries was cursing at the sky. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But it still has power; like a mirror that shows you only the ruined half of your face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But for Claire, who stood on the path weeping, the sunrise, perhaps all sunrises to come, was ruined by memory and loss. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We have said above that a prince must have laid firm foundations; otherwise he will necessarily come to ruin. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an old mirror in the kitchen, spotted with rusty stains and freckled with black specks, so ruined it’s almost impossible to see myself in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I made this beautiful dinner, and you’re trying to ruin it with your negativity.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But unlike most ruins, the railroads were actually useful, and not just for hoverboarding. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once a woman is with a woman, she’s ruined for a man. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay around her in ruins, burning and captured. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The fear in his voice caught me tight between hating him for ruining such a good feeling and wanting to say something nice so he wasn’t so scared. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grin big and take off the ribbon and the paper real slow, making sure not to ruin the littlest piece. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Westmoreland was standing in the ruins and saying everything was great.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Winterfell might be ruined, but its granite walls would still keep the worst of the wind and weather at bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

First a house with no damage, next a house still bearing black streaks of soot and smoke, then a field of ruin, with makeshift hovels crafted from tent, brick, and scorched timbers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t really want him to be there. He’ll ruin everything. He’s gotten so weird, and loud about it too.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A number of them left Ireland for religious reasons, but most were victims of disastrous British policies that brought economic ruin to Ireland’s wool and linen industries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ruin filled with rocks and vultures. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It crackled to full strength in the silence of the ruins, casting flickering shadows through the interior of the ruin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They’d been out to the ruins a few more times, and Shay always insisted on setting off a sparkler, but David had never showed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were back in the heart of the ruins, in the shadow of the tallest building around. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If I ruin this as well, it will be a small thing as far as the world is concerned.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of creepy how well preserved it is. Of all the ruins I’ve seen, it looks the most recent.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the appetite for sophisticated ruin was already there. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I try and pretend everything is okay because I don’t want to ruin our slumber party. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I was fine. Now I feel like I’m ruining your night.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the road swung away from the stream course heading back toward the north-south highway, the ruins tailed away to the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper and Scipio never found out whether Renzo and his sister disappeared the same night the merry-go-round was ruined. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was his idiot brother doing here, ruining this perfectly amazing moment? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I raised my sword, but before I could strike, Tyson ripped the monster’s grading machine out of the floor and threw it at the Sphinx’s head, ruining her hair bun. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We drifted away from the ruins of their house, and were upon the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He’d just felt his eyelids droop when Chuck ruined his peace and quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I yanked all the ruined books out of my bag, piled them beside me, and started my homework. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He was back in Vancouver, standing in front of the ruins of the Zhang mansion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the ruin, prowling where long-dead giants prowled, my heart aching to know what the strangers were doing now, up at the meadhall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his feet as he walked because the wind was bitter, and eventually Hugo found himself, quite by accident, in front of the ruins of the burned-down museum. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Rome was in ruins, he saw, when the plane was down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Does nothing have value in your horrible ruin of a brain?” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may put your wildlings in these ruined forts, Lord Snow, but how will you make them stay? What is there to stop them moving south to fairer, warmer lands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or is it that I’m now ruined as he is? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I approached cautiously, aware that all my hopes could be ruined at this critical moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And his round eye told you he knew that everything was ruined forever. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sunlight was still shining in the sky, but long shadows reached over Isengard: grey ruins falling into darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

‘I was delayed,’ said Gandalf, ‘and that nearly proved our ruin. And yet I am not sure: it may have been better so.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another student said his teacher had deliberately ruined his students’ eyesight by making them read a lot, so they could not join the Liberation Army. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grand Trunk Station, now a ruin of spectacular dimensions, was then the city’s attempt to one-up New York. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I expected that somebody at the cottage had flipped out and ruined the day for everyone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t want to ruin that for them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hunters were screaming with delight Simon's effort fell about him in ruins; the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My sister wanted to look at every single stall in the bazaar that sprawled between the ticket office and the entrance to the ruins, but Babou managed to maneuver her away from them all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maddy worked on the brain cure, using materials salvaged from the ruins or brought by city uglies willing to borrow from hospitals and chem classes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was rather ruining the whole business of authorial genius for me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He, remembered Rhaegar's infant son, the red ruin of his skull, and the way the king had turned away, as he had turned away in Darry's audience hall not so long ago. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only once, in the weeks since her return, had Nhamo gone to the ruined village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in it looks so luxurious that I feel like I’m ruining it just by sitting here. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard about TJ and the fight and your pageant dress being ruined. All on your birthday too. I’m so, so sorry, Vanessa.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“When I was very young. Though they wouldn’t let me explore—the Master Scholars were too afraid I’d ruin some valuable manuscript.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The new one is on Mission. That old building, it’s disintegrating; it’s a ruin. Nobody’s used that for years. Has it been that long since you last got booked?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Strider” I am to one fat man who lives within a day’s march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down on the ruined platform and closed his eyes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I used to hate rain in the summer because it ruined vacation time. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

A new smith tower had risen from the ruins of the old, its stone a paler shade of grey, and as yet unmarred by patches of lichen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see before you resign yourself to calling it all “ruin”? “We’re almost at the fringe,” George calls from the middle of the truck. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The mountains had not crumbled nor the earth fallen into ruin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But she flicked it on anyway, playing the beam over the ruins of the kitchen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But looking out upon the ruins of America, my heart was cold. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The chivalry of the Old Ones fought their way from the ruined encampment, hand to hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Da-A-Fu, Amah, A-Gong, and the villagers saw them and ran out of their stone hut, flapping their ruined sleeves in greeting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide. The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The ruins are much bigger than they let on,” Shay said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sad truth of this story is that Abbas was truly and completely ruined. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Farther down the sloping meadow he found a ruined ox yoke left by a careless peasant which would burn long and well. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She was going to ruin her fake face, and Park's mom was going to go back to hating her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

‘Yes,’ said Johnny, thinking of how he had ruined it upon a Lord’s Day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The station was located in Sophiatown, or rather, what was left of it, for the once bustling township was now a ruin of bulldozed buildings and vacant lots. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was as still as a sleeper but his eyes were open in the dark, and Sarai thought again how he was as much a ruin as he was a man. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I eye the front door, tempted to ruin the clean floors anyway. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Let them hear how all this talk of God ruined my life and took my family.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One morning while we were sitting there eating breakfast, my dad showed up at the door, his face looking like it had caved in, like it was in ruins or something. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was far too focused and excited to be competing in my first games to let anything ruin a once in a lifetime experience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing "Just One of Those Things" and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be sure that no one else would discover it and ruin everything. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You know. Like the Maginot Line. She’s ruined. Mama said so.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was she doing all alone in her ruined house? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Werfel said, “This must be...the ruins of Gargax, one of the Six Kingdoms.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Tom, Tom, if I knew I couldn’t tell you,” said Slughorn, wagging a reproving, sugar-covered finger at Riddle, though ruining the effect slightly by winking. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They could see Anna’s jewelry and blankets and pictures, the accumulated treasures of her life, now resembling the ruins of a lost city. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Below, ruins stretched out for maybe a quarter of a mile: limestone blocks, a few broken walls and some tiled holes in the ground like wells. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And there was a log of every trip the now ruined ship had taken. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If what the boy was saying was true, her plan was ruined before it had even begun. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I hear you ruined my surprise,” he says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he had ruined it with a ratty belt tied into a bow rather than a proper knot. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In a hole beneath the ruins of the Hotel of Bees, Werner sleeps too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

People had begun leaving in 1913, when the phylloxera blight ruined the currants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Snappy start to a sentence, Bozo — we just need to find a story to fit it —” “Trying to ruin someone else’s life?” said Harry loudly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A brand-new world no one’s had the chance to ruin yet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a ruin now. It’s in the middle of the street outside the Palace of Justice.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Therefore, having made himself hated, and since to this hatred was added contempt for his old age, Pertinax came to ruin at the very outset of his rule. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe I shouldn’t have told you. I hope I haven’t ruined a surprise.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at him questioningly, then followed his gaze down toward the ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She saw ruins—a few crumbling walls, a single column, a stone floor covered with moss and dead vines—all clustered on a grassy hillside dotted with pine trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I messed everything up for you. I ruined everything.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z