...Theflower of the army and the emperor himself would have been destroyed, ifbut one of the brands that flew over our heads had alighted on one ofthe powder-wagons...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Napoleon remained till the last moment on these melancholy banks, nearthe ruins of Brilowa, unsheltered and at the head of his guard,one-third of which was destroyed by the storm...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
..."I promised you three hundred gold marks if the Vengador andhis band were destroyed, and I shall pay you the full amount...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
..." She was more afraid now than in the first yearsof her married life, when the bull-fights and the fearful suspenseseemed to her conditions of existence that destroyed her peace of mind...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...She thought ofthe ravenous beasts—in human shape—who lay in wait for their prey,and destroyed them, as mercilessly as any hungry wolf, for the satisfaction oftheir own appetite of hate...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...And now he is lost—back at his outlawry and piracy, in which ultimately he will be taken and destroyed...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...We consolidated it as best wecould, started to replace the wiring that had been destroyed, found touch withthe division on our right, and established outposts...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...You would never forgive me for having destroyed your illusion, as people say in love affairs...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...A grand National fete, semi-religious in character, but of the new religion which destroyed and desecrated and never knelt in worship...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...If all went well in the day that had now dawned, by the evening of it the letter would be destroyed, the queen’s peril past, and Rudolf once more far away from Strelsau...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...Lerimo's party had taken some of this Masiko's subjects prisoners, and destroyed several villages of the Balonda, to whom we were going...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...If destroyed to-morrow, no one could tell where it and most Portuguese interior villages stood, any more than we can do those of the Balonda...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...At one of the villages we were entreated to attack some buffaloes which grazed in the gardens every night and destroyed the manioc...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
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