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Examples
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Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin,
Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum 2010
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Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin,
Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum 2010
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Sam Adams admits to having a fling with a teenage staffer and now faces political ruin,
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009
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Cavendishes, Hawkinses and Frobishers, who had dared to violate that hidden sanctuary of just half the globe, which the pope had bestowed on the defender of the true faith, — a shameful ruin,
Westward Ho! 2007
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Should bury your lauded corpse Behind some ancient ruin,
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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Even as the prow of his battleship plunged in smoky ruin,
Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999
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Most of the Orange Free State faces a major agricultural disaster, with many commercial and subsistence farmers on the brink of ruin,
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When false worship had prevailed in the church of old unto its ruin,
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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And herein lies no small share of the deceitfulness of sin, by which it prevails to the hardening of men, and so to their ruin,
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967
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Likewise, if we can at one effort doom the two countries to ruin,
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