ruin

• Partly encircled by this ruin was a hideous Victorian mansion. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
• Near the ruin is a geological blowhole, from which a constant wind strong issues. —  Signs of the Times
• Inside the ruin was a recess large enough for his purpose; but it required a good deal of adapting to make it available, and this he could not manage without help. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• Near this ruin is the "Eagle shrine" in which round wooden imitations of eagle eggs are ceremonially deposited, and in the immediate vicinity of which is another shrine near which tracks are cut in the rock, and which were evidently considered by the Indian who pointed them out to me as having been made by some bird. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• The monks would secure his ruin were his cause more righteous than that of Jesus Christ. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)

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