| 单词 | ruinously |
| 例句 | A prying charm will be met with a stronger charm, subtle devices will fail, devious inquiries will be deviously thwarted, and force will be turned ruinously back upon itself. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When Lane saw Look Back in Anger early in its run at the Royal Court theatre in 1956, her marriage had ended ruinously two years previously, after three years. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z And, going by the evidence Morris himself provides, Jones was running a one-man psy-op on vulnerable people who would end up ruinously entrusting him with their lives. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “Reality” turns on a fishmonger who ruinously upends his life when he becomes obsessed with appearing on a reality television show. ‘Amour,’ by Michael Haneke Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2012-05-27T19:54:54Z Capitalizing on that chance, however, proved ferociously competitive and often ruinously expensive. Film: Huge Film, Small Film: Big Stakes 2010-03-06T09:54:00Z Both films also offer similarly serious, investigative postmortems on McFarland’s ruinously deceptive tactics. Review | Yes, it takes two Fyre Festival documentaries to fully convey how easily we’re all scammed 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z If you want to accelerate it, my advice would be to ignore the ruinously expensive shampoos a Google search will recommend, and buy a brand called Mane’n’Tail. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z A British TV exec finds his old gambling addiction ruinously reignited. Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-12T17:31:11Z Many would crash and burn; the decade would end with Michael Cimino literally shooting the grass grow for his ruinously expensive epic Heaven's Gate. Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows 2012-06-21T14:30:15Z Male self-aggrandizement is baked into the story’s foundation but not ruinously. Review: The Gorgeous Heartbreak of ‘A Star Is Born’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z She’s ruinously articulate and has all of the book’s funniest lines. A Debut Novel Mixes Lust With the Directionlessness of Youth 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z She finds that we are ruinously protective of our children, and speaks for the “rogue advantages” for kids of “the unbalanced and unhealthy environment.” Books of The Times: ‘In Praise of Messy Lives,’ Essays by Katie Roiphe 2012-11-27T16:27:18Z One man reflects that each day in “this ruinously mad city” is “another exercise in despair,” fearing the bomb blast will define Karachi’s identity. Katy Simpson Smith’s ‘The Story of Land and Sea,’ and More 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z He also knew how quickly and ruinously a joke might go wrong, how comedy can in an instant turn its face to tragedy. Review: ‘The Shadow of a Gunman’ Is a Comedy That Goes Bang 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z His stuffiness and commitment to “tradition, discipline and rules” is presented as ruinously inflexible. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Babb has a similar sequence when Cleopatra leads her navy into battle alongside Antony, who ruinously follows her when she bails for Egypt. Review | ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ amps up the glamour at Folger 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Even before we got to dinner at the ruinously expensive Miramar, I knew I loved Marseille. | Is Marseille France's Next Great Food City? 2010-07-07T21:32:00Z The "Tea" in "Tea Party" was supposed to stand for "taxed enough already," with the claim that Obama's stimulus — and the Bush bank bailouts he expanded — would ruinously drive up taxes. From Bush to Trump to Jan. 6: The rise and fall of "constitutional conservatism" 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Truss and Kwarteng surely knew that their policy would be ineffective and ruinously expensive. Column: Britain's prime minister followed the GOP's economic plan. She lost her job in record time. 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Would it have made a difference if I had known what was to slowly, ruinously become of my old neighborhood? Has it become too depressing to stay in the downtown neighborhood I love? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Over the next 14 hours, the cleavage between Black and white Tulsa split wider and more ruinously than ever. 100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes ideas are so ruinously stupid, greedy and ill-conceived that what’s needed is a united front of opposition.” Uefa’s Ceferin says Super League sides will ‘suffer consequences’ – live updates! 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade built its spot from it having been a “lemon of a year,” with lemons falling ruinously from the sky, but the actors remembering that year are all socializing in pre-pandemic fashion. It's time we stop caring about Super Bowl ads. But at least we have Cookie Monster 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Does that sound like a ruinously revolutionary idea, the end of academia? Perspective | Colleges should offer a major in sports. It could solve some problems. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Sure, Sanders’s rivals ultimately grilled him on his math, suggesting that his particular plans were ruinously lavish. Opinion | Bernie Sanders Has Already Won the Democratic Primary 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Robert Mugabe, who as Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader ruinously took his country down a path of economic and democratic destruction before being driven from power, has died, it was confirmed Friday. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime president ruled through fear, has died 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Extreme nationalism, ruinously protectionist economic policies and international anarchy had led to the world’s greatest bloodletting. Brave new world: the search for peace after the second world war 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Either way, the Johnson regime will not last long: the only question is whether he brings down the country as he goes, leaving us ruinously Brexited with no deal. Boris Johnson’s crew will repel voters – there’s no need to fear him | Polly Toynbee 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The farmers of Asia, Africa and South America were forced to raise the crops that the empire’s companies wanted, to work the crops in abject conditions, and to part with them at ruinously low prices. Is fair trade finished? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Brexit negotiations remain ruinously divisive, threatening to rip Great Britain apart. Wall Street, banks, and angry citizens 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z In those regions, intense rainfall from hurricanes can be ruinously costly. More Floods and More Droughts: Climate Change Delivers Both 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z And coincidentally, even though massive “heavy lift” rockets such as the SLS remain ruinously expensive, the midsize rockets that could support orbital assembly with multiple launches are getting cheaper all the time. Finding Alien Life May Require Giant Telescopes Built in Orbit 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But what good is that right if a citizen risks getting ensnared by the government in a ruinously expensive legal battle for exercising it? Florida editorial roundup 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Not only is it annoying but also ruinously distracting. Review: Network starring Bryan Cranston ★★★☆☆ 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z He holds some mainstream views, such as favouring gradual reform of the ruinously expensive pension system. Jair Bolsonaro hopes to be Brazil’s Donald Trump 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Critics reply that it would be ruinously expensive. Opinion | The biggest thing single-payer has going for it 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It was a poor decision, a referee interfering needlessly, and indeed ruinously in the flow of a match. Zlatan Ibrahimovic on target as Manchester United beat West Ham 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z And his tax plan is ruinously expensive, costing almost $7trn over a decade, or around half of America’s outstanding national debt. Strap up 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z If a rich and powerful individual or organisation threatens a journalist with a libel writ then arbitration offers a low-cost escape route from a ruinously expensive court case. Divisions persist about who should regulate UK press - BBC News 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The system is ruinously costly and riddled with corruption. Of bread, bribes and fungus 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z After days of ruinously heavy storms in southern Louisiana, rain-swollen rivers and creeks continued wreaking damage across the state, inundating neighborhoods and submerging roads and highways. Thousands Displaced in Storm-Drenched Louisiana 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The presidential nominating process, with its long and ruinously expensive campaigns, is tougher on nonconventional candidates than the parliamentary system is in many countries. A Glass Ceiling Now Broken, Is U.S. Ready for a Madam President? 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z There have been protests that the excavations are now ruinously thorough. Demolishing Michelangelo's mountain - BBC News 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z I have ruinously stained more white shirts than I can count; I now wear gray tank tops instead because at least the gray offers some camouflage. Will these Pryma headphones make me feel more like Beyoncé? 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Delaying until the middle of the century would be ruinously expensive. UN climate science chief: it's not too late to avoid dangerous temperature rise 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Even if Trump’s presidential run ends ruinously in November, Trumpism will remain, along with the GOP’s profound vulnerability to the forces Trump has unleashed. They’re still not telling the real story: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the analysis you won’t hear on cable news 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z By which stage Pato looked almost a parody of the ruinously overpriced celebrity signing. The strange case of Alexandre Pato and Chelsea’s duck-shaped hole 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Most notably, showing me a photo of my "book boyfriend" is a ruinously terrible idea. Crave is a terrible new app that brings your romance novel boyfriend to life 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Government medicine would be ruinously expensive and destructive of the quality of care, but Mr. Sanders is sincere in wanting everyone to experience this utopia. Honest and Dishonest Socialism 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The moment when attitude, melody, ego, style, anger, hedonism and funny headwear – factors often ruinously unbalanced in hard rock in the 80s and beyond – cohered immaculately and vindicated an era. So Guns N’ Roses will reunite for Coachella – let's hope they're not too reformed 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z They don’t have to be ruinously expensive, though. 13 wines for the holiday table at $25 or under 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Nor did he mention the ruinously foolish budget caps that have shortchanged defense and domestic spending, nor the seemingly constant threat of government shutdown over hot-button side issues. Making the House Republicans behave 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z "Footing the bill is ruinously expensive," Ricker said of the practice of inviting people in to eat for free when a restaurant is opening. You can make reservations for Andy Ricker's Pok Pok LA on Monday 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Dismantling it now would be ruinously expensive and destroy what has become a tiny oasis for birds and wildlife, they said. Family Pond Boils at Center of a ‘Regulatory War’ in Wyoming 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Other Republicans recoiled, convinced that Trump’s nativist turn would taint the Party’s image as ruinously as Mitt Romney’s “self-deportation” comments in his race against Barack Obama. Donald Trump and the White Nationalists 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Orbital flight was the by-product of a ruinously expensive arms buildup that took the world to the brink of nuclear war. China Makes Its Move to the Moon [Excerpt] 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z That quake ruinously rattled mountains mainly in the Langtang valley, where entire villages were buried under avalanches and landslides and debris killed nearly 200 people including foreign trekkers. Quake-hit Nepal seeks experts’ advice on tourism - BBC News 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Stores are likely to complain that the rules would increase costs ruinously. See No Junk, Buy No Junk 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It is also ruinously expensive to maintain and operate. An ambassador to Neptune’s kingdom 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In Brazil, where entire states count as single constituencies, campaigns are ruinously expensive. Democracy to the rescue? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The PT’s expansive industrial policy was ruinously expensive for Brazil. Whose oil in Brazil? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But many migrants who make the ruinously expensive and risky attempt to enter Europe illegally aren't so lucky, and die in the attempt. Europe's ethical dilemma over migrants 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z When President Obama signed the measure in 2010, he pledged that it would protect Americans from ruinously high medical bills by guaranteeing them access to comprehensive — and affordable — coverage. Is the Affordable Care Act Working? 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z This, locals said, smelled of the Mafia - money ruinously diverted from one budget elsewhere, corners being cut, jobs done badly, if at all. The Sicilians who can't escape the Mafia 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Successive Egyptian governments have shied from tackling ruinously large energy subsidies. Al-Sisi Ascendant 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z America’s prisons are overcrowded—with less than a 20th of the world’s population, it locks up nearly a quarter of prisoners—and ruinously expensive. Parole and technology: Prison breakthrough 2014-04-16T14:55:18Z The fossil-fuel industry and its allies in Congress are certain to argue that the president’s plan will be ruinously expensive and require the shutdown of numerous coal-burning power plants. News Analysis: Clean Air Act, Reinterpreted, Would Focus on Flexibility and State-Level Efforts 2013-06-26T02:21:47Z And for that there’s nothing and nobody to blame but the ruinously expensive policy known in Australia as the “Pacific Solution.” Australia's Costly Asylum-Seeker Policy Contributes to Nation's Deficit Woes 2013-05-15T04:35:25Z But doubts continue to linger, not only about powerful titles setting up secessionist self-regulators but also about fears of ruinously punitive damages for publications prospectively outside the system, such as Private Eye. Politicians and press regulation: a good deal on paper … 2013-03-18T22:35:17Z Etherington will make his 400th career league appearance, an impressive tally for a man who spent years playing through the stress of a ruinously expensive and secret gambling addiction. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2012-12-21T09:00:09Z His first book, Dark Carnival, appeared in 1947, and three years later he began to establish his reputation with The Martian Chronicles, a collection of stories about materialistic Earthmen colonising and ruinously exploiting Mars. Author Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91 2012-06-06T14:54:24Z Not much would suggest, in other words, a portal to some of New York City’s most ethereal croissants, exquisite napoleons and a ruinously buttery rarity called a gâteau Breton. | East Elmhurst: At Cannelle Patisserie, Serving a Wide Mix of Cultures 2012-04-06T02:35:55Z If Lord Brougham did not live to see that complete downfall of the great Whig houses which he had predicted, he lived to see their power ruinously curtailed. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z These morbid fears which suggestion relieves may be ruinously degrading to a man's character. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The vice told still more ruinously on his art than on his character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z But she did not for a moment believe his cheerful tale that "things were all right again now"; poor old boy, ten to one he had borrowed pretty ruinously elsewhere in order to pay her. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z "He's a good man, Miss Mavis," she answered, clutching the gowns to her, ruinously—my careful Sarah! Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z We specialize in giant, cumbersome, ruinously expensive fixes. Essay: Small Fixes: The Simplest Health Solutions? It?s Complicated 2011-09-26T22:14:50Z He was not only wild, but wicked; and what, perhaps, grieved his father far more, he had of late years become ruinously expensive. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z The public begins to rebel against irregularity of supply and ruinously high prices. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z I got some, though prices were ruinously high, and at midnight we hid beside the track, waiting for a freight train to pull out. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Euripides, hearing of the plot, persuades his elderly father-in-law to go in disguise to the forbidden celebration and defend him—which he does in a ruinously tactless way. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z She suffered ruinously for her secession folly, and for nearly twenty years her White population was practically stationary; in 1870 she had only twenty-nine myriads, and even in 1880 only thirty-nine against sixty of Blacks. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z If I were a Ziegfeld scout I assure you I’d be burbling your praises in a ruinously verbose telegram, and the devil take the expense. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z The number of taxis at the station bewildered Alex, who had only seen one or two crawling about the streets in Rome, and had heard of them, besides, as ruinously expensive. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z He said infrastructure spending continued, but without the "ruinously expensive" private finance schemes favoured by the business lobby. Row over business chiefs' calls 2010-12-29T00:32:05Z It was euro membership, with ruinously low interest rates for more than a decade, that plunged Ireland into the economic abyss. Don't bail out Ireland, free it 2010-11-23T21:30:00Z They argue that the chemical has been demonized, and that adopting the precautionary principle would lead to needless and ruinously expensive bans on safe and useful products. Despite Feast of BPA Data, a Hunger for Answers 2010-09-06T20:01:00Z Compared with what the U.S. national interest requires, gasoline is ruinously cheap for Americans. Shrinking the Middle East 2010-08-12T05:15:00Z There is, however, ample evidence of underestimated costs - countries left with underused stadiums and facilities which are ruinously expensive to maintain. Footing the bill 2010-06-04T07:18:00Z There is, however, ample evidence of the costs being overambitious; countries left with underused stadiums and facilities which are ruinously expensive to maintain. Footing the bill 2010-06-04T07:18:00Z The assumption is that the US is too big to fail because the dollar is the world's reserve currency, even though it faces ruinously expensive long-term health costs. The UK isn't so far from Greece: a financial crisis could happen here too 2010-04-18T23:05:00Z "And does her best," Sophy joined in, "to protect you against your ruinously extravagant habits!" The Hillman These excursions among the French peasantry, who, as Jefferson well knew, were ruinously taxed in order to support an extravagant court and an idle and insolent nobility, made him a fierce Republican. Thomas Jefferson The new teacher recoiled in such haste as to set his foot ruinously into one of the immaculate flower-beds. Black Forest Village Stories For many years it has been a ruinously, wasteful custom with farmers, to allow their crops of corn, grain and hay, to stand in the fields while curing. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century “Sir Jeffrie’s Ale-tub” alludes to two knights who were ruinously fined, and hardly escaped with life, for their patronage of Martin. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The house has been uninhabited for a great many years, and is, of course, ruinously out of repair. Records of Later Life He did not think of his eldest daughter, except to think that the impending disaster could not affect her so ruinously. The Quality of Mercy “And most English people never think of traveling first-class except on a long journey; for it really is very little better, and the price is so ruinously dear!” John and Betty's History Visit Homes were thrown on the market and sold at ruinously low prices. Negro Migration during the War In spite of the ruinously low prices which sometimes prevailed, the amount of tobacco shipped overseas continued to increase. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 "The Henrys will think I have indulged thee ruinously." A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The plain truth is, that the man so completely destroyed himself, and was so ruinously exposed by his competitor, Col. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors Sagan was a bad tool, at once stubborn and secretive, cunning enough to recognise and to resent handling, thickheaded and vain enough to blunder ruinously. A Modern Mercenary She had used coal ruinously in order to heat the oven for a special sort of tea-biscuit of which Grandmother was very fond. Master of the Vineyard Prices on the boats are always high, and the native voluptuary pays extravagantly and the foreigner ruinously whenever he devotes an evening to the floral fleet. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan In a very self-restrained man love works ruinously; and it burnt James now, this invisible, unconscious fire, till he was consumed utterly—till he was mad with passion. The Hero When she jettisoned cargo that had already shifted ruinously, there is reason to think that she averted disaster and saved the ship. Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses Owing to irreversible currents of trade, neither British nor island shipping can carry this traffic at a profit to themselves, except by ruinously overcharging the planter. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 Land ceased to be bought at the ruinously high rates, and goods returned to their former prices. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 If my theory is incorrect—and no doubt it is ruinously wrong—will she consent to omit the last trick and come to the front with wrists bound as she entered the cabinet? Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis When James ascended the throne, a proclamation of tolerance somewhat allayed the fears of the settlers; but the administration of temporal affairs became ruinously oppressive. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) They were wonderful feats of penmanship, for postage from Australia was ruinously expensive, and they filled sheets of paper with writing that could hardly be read without a microscope. Old Times at Otterbourne War is always ruinously expensive, and that party generally is successful which can the longer furnish resources. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges She and Delia were discussing the price of butter in the most intimate fashion possible, and Nan snorted audibly as she heard them agree that it was ruinously high. The Governess A price ruinously high; higher beyond comparison than could ever have arisen under a temperate restriction of competition; that is, in other words, under a British corn-law. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Raleigh at last abandoned the scheme of settlement that had proved ruinously disastrous to him and all concerned, and the brave Sir Richard Greenville was soon after slain. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) More than that proportion of her great estates are ruinously mortgaged. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 The mystical monarchy glorified in Richard II. was soon to be dethroned much more ruinously than in Richard II. A Short History of England Ships traveling between the stars by light-drive were rare and ruinously expensive. The Colors of Space Now, we pause not to ask, why, if the law already makes the prices of corn ruinously low, any association can be needed to make it lower? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Owners rarely study their woodlands to be sure that the trees are thick enough, or to find out whether the saplings are ruinously crowding one another. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition He added, that "the apprehension which exists, that if power is given to the Secretary to retire legal-tender notes the circulation will be ruinously contracted, is without any special foundation." Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 But this in many ways was sure to operate ruinously for the sepoy interests, and could therefore have found a sufficient motive only with the native princes. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The book has been rebound in leather, the old embroidered back quite done away with, and the worked sides pulled away from their original boards and ruinously flattened out on the new ones. English Embroidered Bookbindings In their anxiety to preserve their existence as an isolated and privileged order the clergy flung away a power which, had they retained it, would have ruinously hampered the healthy developement of the state. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 But when, by a blind concourse, particular occupations are ruinously overcharged, and others left in want of hands, the national authorities can do much towards restoring the equilibrium. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 We have been very happy and found rooms swimming all day in sunshine, when there is any sun, and yet not ruinously dear. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II The successes of the British in the southern States, though undeniable, and seemingly substantial, were involving them ever more deeply in a ruinously ex-centric movement. The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence But he was wrong, and, we are convinced, ruinously wrong, by most extravagantly overrating that one advantage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 England very falsely, and ruinously for herself, infers, that because she had the advantage of France, while France had the smaller navy, that for that reason it is always to be so. A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up Distribute the type!'—though in her capacity as the great publisher she has been all too prodigal of her issues, and ruinously guilty of innumerable remainders. Prose Fancies For those four weeks, he had no doubt, Rickets had been gloriously, ruinously, on the loose. The Divine Fire But it is a ruinously long while since we have heard a word from each other;—a state of matters that ought immediately to cease. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Against the former, adult man, in whom reason is developed, may battle, though ignobly, and, for himself, ruinously; and against the latter oftentimes he must struggle, to escape ignominious shipwreck. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Poor Scotland! how ruinously overwhelmed beneath the briny waters of adversity. Sketches of the Covenanters There is no deed which is not an attempt to realize an ideal; whenever man acts he seeks a good, however ruinously he may misunderstand its nature. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher He was first of all possessed, recklessly, ruinously, by a passion for immaculate shirts. The Divine Fire In 1846 prices were ruinously high, as the alcalde was free to confess—he being a citizen of the United States and a clergyman into the bargain. In the Footprints of the Padres The bag limit in British East Africa is ruinously extravagant. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation B. was unfortunate in his latter years; a speculation turned out ruinously; he had to sell his copyrights, and he sustained a paralytic seizure, from the effects of which he d. in a few months. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature There is the ruinously extravagant Pollia, whose passion for jewels and fine clothes runs her deeply into debt, for which, fortunately, her husband is not responsible. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul My uncle, Sir Arthur Tyrrell, was a gay and extravagant man, and, among other vices, was ruinously addicted to gaming. Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin During my sojourn in Stockton I mixed freely with the returning and disgusted miners from whom I learned that they were selling their mining implements at ruinously low prices. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado He lost all his family by smallpox, and the priest made him burn his clothes, and ruinously fit himself with new. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World Absolutism, on its side, seems to hold that 'some' is a category ruinously infected with self-contradictoriness, and that the only categories inwardly consistent and therefore pertinent to reality are 'all' and 'none.' A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Gambling, the besetting sin of the indolent in many countries, is ruinously general throughout South America. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 On the long lines, where it had to be as thick as a lead pencil, the expense seemed to be ruinously great. The History of the Telephone The proprietor, who suffered not only in his mind but in his pocket, had sold the building at a ruinously small price, to get rid of all future annoyance. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Houses and lands were offered for sale at ruinously low prices, or assigned in payment of bargains made at the tulip-mart. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 She was being educated at a ruinously expensive school with a number of other inordinately rich little girls, who were all too wonderfully dressed and too lavishly supplied with pocket money. The Shuttle The other tends to miseducate the shallow and unthinking, to give them a ruinously false notion of the delights of vice. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise This is a ruinously large number, from a profit-making point of view; but the inexorable fact is that in a telephone system nothing is insignificant. The History of the Telephone Commercial enterprise was paralyzed by prohibitive legislation; public credit was shaken to its base; the prime necessaries of life were ruinously dear. The Grand Old Man Cécile drew his head down and showed it to me, in a transport of reproaches, as though my false report had wronged no one else so ruinously as her. The Cavalier "An' it's no good smelling of my breath, because I'm strictly an' ruinously sober." Traffics and Discoveries They claimed that their industry was ruinously hampered by unwise taxation. Outline of Universal History Nine-tenths of the railroads, which in the old times had ruinously competed, and then, in the hands of the Accumulation, had been united to impoverish and oppress the people, fell into disuse. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance If not so finely ground the flour was whiter, but the large percentage of middlings made the yield per bushel ruinously small. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Law was but like a poor conjurer in the hands of a potent spirit that he has evoked, and that obliges him to go on, desperately and ruinously, with his conjurations. The Crayon Papers His own taste was good; he appreciated and copied the style of the republican age; but he encouraged the pedantic Fronto, whose taste was corrupt and ruinously influential. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius She found it a ruinously small capital to begin life as a Marchioness on—she that had had only two dollars to begin life in New York on! We Can't Have Everything The only thing was that her mother was, thank goodness, still so much prettier, still so assertively, so publicly, so trashily, so ruinously pretty. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 The one he could obtain on conditions; the other he could dispose of at a discount which, though ruinously heavy, still left him enough to frolic on. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore “The superstition is that on any man who kills a leopard will fall a curse or evil disease, curable only by ruinously expensive process of three weeks’ duration under the direction of Ukuku. Travels in West Africa For to teach speculation instead of devotion, mysticism instead of love, word instead of deed, is surely ruinously repressive to the nature that is meant for sunbright activity both of heart and hand. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood We found ourselves faced with more agricultural products than we could possibly consume ourselves and surpluses which other nations did not have the cash to buy from us except at prices ruinously low. The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt On the other hill, two hundred yards across a sombre precipice, I saw a line of high blackened stakes, showing here and there ruinously—the remnants of Sherif Ali's impregnable camp. Lord Jim All that had driven me with such passionate haste to an improvident and premature marriage, all that had consequently weighed on me so ruinously, now seemed set at rest, leaving peace in its stead. My Life — Volume 1 Yes, that very important letter, ruinously compromising two ladies and a nobleman. Frederick the Great and His Court She thought that Raoul was too shrewd to be acting in this shameful way, ruinously to his own interests, if there were not some secret motive at the bottom of it all. File No. 113 They shirked open-air exercise altogether because their boots wore out ruinously and pinched and hurt them if they took it. In the Days of the Comet Flour became ruinously dear, and the poor could not get enough to eat. This Country of Ours The head of it had suddenly died in circumstances and surroundings of a ruinously disgraceful character. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories And, by Jove, the fact is that if you keep off gluttony it is not at all ruinously expensive to entertain a number of people to the fare you have yourself. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 I must tell her the truth, or she may in her ignorance commit herself to some course or other that may be ruinously compromising. A Changed Man; and other tales But offsetting this, customs went up ruinously; a great lump sum must go annually to the King; the leaf must enter only at the port of London; so forth and so on. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings You can scarcely overestimate the pleasure it would give me to oblige you, but nothing is operating so ruinously upon us everywhere as "absenteeism." The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 Simply, because the expense of contesting popular places, under the present system, is ruinously great. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Most, Christian Majesty is ruinously short of money; Britannic Majesty has still credit, and a voting Parliament, but, owing to French influence on the Continent, can get no recruits to hire. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Unless this feeling is checked in time it degenerates into "panic," when prices fall to a ruinously low figure. Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein No person living would be capable of so certainly extracting the correspondence from him, on such ruinously cheap terms as his old master. Man and Wife |
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