He said, "At my age, and in my condition of health, 'rest was rust,' and nothing remained, to prevent rust, but to keep in motion".
Give 'em hell!"… A tank had churned its way slowly round behind Springfield and opened fire; a moment later I looked and nothing remained of it but a crumpled heap of iron; it had been hit by a large shell.
All the quayside buildings were completely gutted, and nothing remained of Venizelos Street or the Bazaar but masses of masonry; every shop and hotel had been wiped out, the roads were blocked with smouldering debris, and the whole place was desolation.
After being vandalised and stripped bare, nothing remained of the buildings but their outer shell.
And after two months, nothing remained from the wealth that the couple had initially hoped would enable them to live comfortably for at least two years.
They fought until nothing remained but rock and dust and shattered bone, Troy's walls a waste, the stupendous Meso-American cities abandoned to devouring jungle, tumbling on themselves like children's blocks.
For instance, Karina and Craig had assumed that nothing remained of the medieval fort that originally stood on the site.
The building's collapse left a gaping hole; of the hotel, the furniture store and the book store, almost nothing remained.
But after someone suggested that it might be whale shit, crowds flocked to the beach, carving out chunks of the log with garden tools and taking them home until nothing remained.
I would rip the stage to splinters, mash the tables, smash the chairs, peel back the walls, and tear the roof apart, until nothing remained from which the club could be rebuilt, ever.
While Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Romanians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Italians were all claiming their share of the spoil, nothing remained to Charles, the last emperor and king, but "German" Austria and Hungary proper.
