Sentence examples for ruins next from inspiring English sources
According to legend, Theseus once slew the Minotaur in the ruins next door, and should the truth out itself, the Bayer family perhaps fear a repeat.
The researcher, Eric Guttschuss, said he had seen a mosque in another village, Maraba Rido, that had been burned down, with anti-Islam graffiti scratched into the ruins, next to inscription reading, "Jesus is Lord".
Judging by the onlookers at the scene, this was curious, not to say remarkable, because the makers were allowed to place their work in the ruins next to the iconic Koutoubia minaret, the city's treasured 12th-century tower, which is regarded as one of the finest Islamic monuments of North Africa.
"When I look at this country of mine, which once was the pearl of the Antilles," he sang in Creole, "I think, Oh, good God, where will we end up?" Living Amid Ruins Next door in Villa Rosa, on a steep hill inaccessible to cars, Terilien Brice built his salmon-color house in stages, starting 35 years ago.
Finally we pull over in front of an adobe ruin next to two creaky windmills.
A photograph of a "Communion Cloth in Ruins," stained and hanging on a devastated wall, is placed above a mental outpatient who is also ruined; next to these is a self-portrait of Hujar above the severed head of a cow.
"One moment I was sitting there on my Bloomsbury sofa, flicking through Time Out, idly wondering whose life to ruin next, and the next moment it was as if a mighty hand had broken - painlessly, patiently, purposefully - a huge jar of ointment over my head," she wrote.
The artifacts are believed to have been looted from Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement whose ruins lie next to Aidone.
For decades archaeologists, magistrates and eventually the Italian government had attempted to convince the museum that the pieces had been illegally excavated 30 years ago from Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement whose ruins lie next to Aidone.
On 3 November, with the whites nearing Bulawayo, Lobengula torched the town and fled; the settlers began rebuilding atop the ruins the next day.
Peter Stone was approaching the end of a long career in the army when he witnessed an event in Croatia in 1995 that was to ruin the next decade of his life.
