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Meanings of irretrievable ruin in English

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Usage of irretrievable ruin in English
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What tendency could this have but to plunge you into irretrievable ruin?
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
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The families of the convicted were plunged into irretrievable ruin.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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Your signing this check may save me from irretrievable ruin.
Jane Talbot
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The stones must be recovered, or utter and irretrievable ruin stared him in the face.
The Firm of Girdlestone
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At New Plymouth a similar address declared that the settlers were menaced with irretrievable ruin.
The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
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It was thus, with the most generous and undoubting spirit, that I rushed upon irretrievable ruin.
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
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He made Maggie almost feel as if she had brought absolute and irretrievable ruin upon him.
A Daughter of Fife
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The northern kingdom sank into irretrievable ruin.
Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History
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Its consequences extended disastrously through many years, and involved a vast number of innocent persons in irretrievable ruin.
History of King Charles the Second of England
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True it is, that unless Heaven stops us in our mad career, we shall plunge into irretrievable ruin.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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Everything betokened speedy and irretrievable ruin.
Ten Great Events in History
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He considered me as the cause of his overwhelming disgrace, his imminent peril of death, his irretrievable ruin.
The House of the Seven Gables
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But my absence will not spell irretrievable ruin, as it would at a period of greater commercial activity.
Psmith in the City
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And can it be that death shall put the final seal of irretrievable ruin on all this uncompleted effort?
What Peace Means
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Can we expose to utter and irretrievable ruin this countless multitude, without justly incurring the reproach of violating the national faith?
American Eloquence, Volume 4 / Studies In American Political His...
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Each one of the great rivals knew very well that his defeat in one general battle would be his utter and irretrievable ruin.
History of Julius Caesar
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