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Meanings of black ruin in English

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Usage of black ruin in English
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Tables and chairs were wantonly smashed and there was black ruin everywhere.
A Minstrel in France
2
There black ruin faced them starkly; here doomed things awaited mutely.
Sir Mortimer: A Novel
3
They do not see the black ruin that lies before them.
The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, Founder of the ...
4
A black ruin, still smoldering, lay where the elevators had been.
The Desert of Wheat
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He felt as if he were collapsing inside, shriveling into a black ruin.
Funland
6
The cannery men shouted black ruin,-butthey girded up their loins to get fish.
Poor Man's Rock
7
There must be no more relapses, or they will end in black ruin to us all.
His Sombre Rivals
8
Above are Fortune's heights, and beneath black ruin.
The Wanderer's Necklace
9
I may have turned pale, for I saw black ruin yawn before me, but I answered steadily:
The Rose of Old St. Louis
10
He had had more time than he had wanted to explore the black ruin that underlay his position.
A Case of Conscience
11
A few hundred yards up the hill the line of green timber ended against the black ruin of the fire.
The Hidden Places
12
Would any of you fine folks at home face black ruin to save a fishing smack's crew from getting drowned?
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
13
The corner toward the road was a black ruin, but the back wall was hardly touched by the marks of the fire.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
14
Black Ruin for the rich, and consequently, of course, Blacker Ruin still for the poor!'
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
15
And then the black ruins, and then again the beleaguered white fastness of the Council.
The sleeper awakes
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Black ruin on one side, and oh!
Muslin
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