The phrase "and ruin in the" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in a context where you are discussing destruction or decay, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The storm left devastation and ruin in the once-thriving town."
Alternatives: "and destruction in the" or "and devastation in the".
"Rain on Roke may be drouth in Osskil," teaches the Master Summoner, "and a calm in the East Reach may be storm and ruin in the West, unless you know what you are about".
But only after reading Gerald Nissenbaum's gossip-filled exposé, Love Sex and Money: Revenge and Ruin in the World of High-Stakes Divorce, did I realize there might be another universally acknowledged truth: There are two sides to every book written by a divorce lawyer.
Others came before them: Anasazi sites and ruins in the valley date from before 1300.
In literary terms the Italian journey had not been a particularly successful time: Egmont had been completed, though with a shift of focus that blurred its political point, and some minor plays had been rewritten and ruined in the process.
With startlingly beautiful capes and bays greeting us around every winding corner, we knew the waterfront was a bribe we could dangle against the castles, museums, and ruins in the area we desperately wanted to see.
"Disaster and Ruin in Falling Market" was the lead headline on May 10.
Just as the Romantics turned to previously shunned mountains and ruins in search of the sublime, the two poets promise strange beauty in mobile masts and business parks.
"I always said, Jeff is totally ready to ruin himself, ruin me, and ruin everyone in the world for the work to be perfect," Antonio Homem told me in February.
Shouldn't we use a film like "The Help" to talk about how racism can engulf an entire culture and ruin lives in the process?
The mansion, Foxcroft, was built in 1910 and fell into ruin in the late 1950s.
