bring to ruin
Example Sentences
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Honest, industrious, and self-restraining men will make a very bad social organization prosper; while vicious, idle, and reckless citizens will bring to ruin the best that ever was, or ever will be, invented.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
She had a long “innings,” however, before it came to that: time enough to bring to ruin more than one young swell—among others Frank Scudamore, the “spooney” of the Haymarket supper.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
Nature is insidious and unceasing in her efforts to bring to ruin the achievements of mankind and we need all the weapons we can find to frustrate her destructive determination.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
Here he comes that hath undone many an honest man, And daily seeks to destroy, deface, and bring to ruin, if he can— Now, sir, have you taken possession, as your dear lady will'd you?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
They do not hesitate to magnify the false or to bring to ruin what they find most profitably assailable.
From The Rapids by Alan Sullivan
