house-wrecker

We fared further, having a mind to revisit the old Eastern Hotel, down by the South Ferry, of whose cool and dusky bar-room we had pleasant memories in times gone by; but we found to our distress that this also, like many more of our familiar landmarks, is a prey to the house-wrecker, and is on its way to become an office building.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Lamb glanced at the desk, at the kitchen chair before it, at the telephone, and at the partition walls built of old boards, some covered with ancient paint and some merely weatherbeaten, the salvage of a house-wrecker; and he smiled broadly.

Alice Adams 1921

Lamb glanced at the desk, at the kitchen chair before it, at the telephone, and at the partition walls built of old boards, some covered with ancient paint and some merely weatherbeaten, the salvage of a house-wrecker; and he smiled broadly.

Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

Somehow, and most unreasonably, he had always believed the place would go to the hands of the house-wrecker unchanged.

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

But he went to work at "Success" with the abandon of a house-wrecker, pulling it to the foundation.

Bambi Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Porte de Namur Quarter, old buildings are constantly falling victims to the house-wrecker, and new, in the shape of handsome mansions and lofty blocks of flats, are arising from their ashes.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

TORONTO - As Canadians contemplate the trashed core of their largest city like teenagers after a house-wrecker, the summit question on everyone's lips is the same: Was it worth it?

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