1 Their connection could not last long without ruining both.
2 It is woman who has ruined us, still ruins us, and will ruin us, as long as the world stands.
3 It is woman who has ruined us, still ruins us, and will ruin us, as long as the world stands.
4 It is woman who has ruined us, still ruins us, and will ruin us, as long as the world stands.
5 La Rochelle, which had derived a new importance from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was, then, the focus of dissensions and ambition.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 6 On the left was an old abandoned mill, with its motionless wings, from the ruins of which an owl threw out its shrill, periodical, and monotonous cry.
7 I then swore that this woman who had ruined him, who was more than his accomplice, since she had urged him to the crime, should at least share his punishment.
8 You see very plainly that there is still danger for you, since a single word makes you tremble; and you confess that if that word were heard you would be ruined.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 9 And as we are prevented from going down there, we are forced to refuse food and drink to the travelers who come to the house; so that our hostelry is daily going to ruin.
10 He has deceived her in her love, humbled her in her pride, thwarted her in her ambition; and now he ruins her fortune, deprives her of liberty, and even threatens her life.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 11 No doubt some invisible witness had seen me draw the water from that fountain, and had taken advantage of my confidence in it, the better to assure my ruin, so coolly resolved upon, so cruelly pursued.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 12 Spanish policy and Austrian policy would have their representatives in the cabinet of the Louvre, where they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu--the French minister, the national minister--would be ruined.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 13 I am not willing that a compatriot, a handsome cavalier, a brave youth, quite fit to make his way, should become the dupe of all these artifices and fall into the snare after the example of so many others who have been ruined by it.
14 She did not invoke God, we very well know, but she had faith in the genius of evil--that immense sovereignty which reigns in all the details of human life, and by which, as in the Arabian fable, a single pomegranate seed is sufficient to reconstruct a ruined world.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 15 So much the better for me, sir, if you speak to me, as you say, with frankness--for then you will do me the honor to esteem the resemblance of our opinions; but if you have entertained any doubt, as naturally you may, I feel that I am ruining myself by speaking the truth.