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  • In the championship game, our boy got annihilated.†   (source)
  • I personally designed the antimatter trap that is keeping that sample from annihilating right now.†   (source)
  • Unable to push her tongue against the word, Briony could only nod, and felt as she did so a sulky thrill of self-annihilating compliance spreading across her skin and ballooning outward from it, darkening the room in throbs.†   (source)
  • Shall we annihilate them?†   (source)
  • An artificial race with enhanced sight, strength, and speed, Glass Eyes were built for hand-to-hand combat, and they patrolled the Crystal Continuum with orders to annihilate anyone suspected of being an Alyssian.†   (source)
  • We had annihilated the enemy.†   (source)
  • Annihilate.†   (source)
  • Annihilate them?†   (source)
  • Sartre uses just such a cafe visit to demonstrate the way we 'annihilate' whatever is irrelevant for us.†   (source)
  • 'If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.'†   (source)
  • We just about annihilated the bird population, too.†   (source)
  • And now they were back as an effective fighting army, launching guerrilla operations against the U.S.-led coalition forces only four years after they'd lost power, been driven into exile, and had nearly been annihilated.†   (source)
  • But one or the other, or both, had annihilated her.†   (source)
  • This could crush her and annihilate us.†   (source)
  • His family had been annihilated last year.†   (source)
  • upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and fear, the pain of his fatigue and the longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary-the sunshine, the memories, the future; which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life.†   (source)
  • Annihilate me.†   (source)
  • For me, a dream or three, annihilated.†   (source)
  • She stared at him, hands on her hips again, as if trying to annihilate him with her death ray vision.†   (source)
  • Annihilate an entire people?†   (source)
  • How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this-smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?†   (source)
  • Knowing his label provided him with both comfort and courage, he believed that to name an evil was to neutralize if not annihilate it.†   (source)
  • If they wanted to annihilate us, why didn't they just go ahead and annihilate us?†   (source)
  • Wouldn't they just annihilate the demon guys?†   (source)
  • Waiting their turn to be withdrawn, they kept busy creating enough of a stir and tending campfires to make it appear the army was still in place, knowing all the while that if the enemy were to become the wiser, they stood an excellent chance of being annihilated.†   (source)
  • I didn't hear what he said as Macon passed us again, the mower annihilating the grass and leaving a smooth, green trail behind him.†   (source)
  • You annihilate him.†   (source)
  • When he had exhausted all possibilities in the letters, he began attacking the names and addresses on the envelopes, obliterating whole homes and streets, annihilating entire metropolises with careless flicks of his wrist as though he were God.†   (source)
  • The demon loosed it just as Prusias annihilated the balcony.†   (source)
  • They remained in action and virtually annihilated the Japanese regiment.†   (source)
  • To state that would annihilate the most basic presumption of all science!†   (source)
  • My brain went from sleep to extreme, annihilating panic in an instant.†   (source)
  • He had expected Carter to blitz and instead the big guard had pulled back and skirted the line, annihilating Jerry from behind.†   (source)
  • Two hundred tons of a metal which was to be harder than steel, running liquid at a temperature of four thousand degrees, had the power to annihilate every wall of the structure and every one of the men who worked by the stream.†   (source)
  • It doesn't comfort me to see other people as annihilated as I am.†   (source)
  • But abolishing liberty because it nourishes faction is as silly as the wish to annihilate air because it gives fire its destructive energy.†   (source)
  • With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!†   (source)
  • In 1861 Jefferson Davis justified secession as an act of self-defense against the Black Republicans, whose purpose to exclude slavery from the territories would make "property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless ...thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars."†   (source)
  • A lot of the citizens of The Shade—lodgers, we call them—escaped from covens that the hunters found and annihilated.†   (source)
  • Now I was struggling to match my eyes to my hands and shoot the same little digital aliens that I'd annihilated so many hundreds of times before.†   (source)
  • If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to he; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger†   (source)
  • But his obsession must have blinded him to many things, and it is an irony that—even if the Poles and other Slavs were not next on the list of people to be annihilated—he should have failed to foresee how such sublime hatred could only gather into its destroying core, like metal splinters sucked toward some almighty magnet, countless thousands of victims who did not wear the yellow badge.†   (source)
  • Annihilating those miles between them—the miles I came along to travel with him, that first time on the train—those miles he knew nearly altogether by heart, he wrote more often than any once a day, and mailed his letters directly onto the mail car—letters that are so ardent, so direct and tender in expression, so urgent, that they seemed to bare, along with his love, the rest of his whole life to me.†   (source)
  • Yet active resistance presented baffling difficulties, for the destruction of the Overlords' ships, even if it could be achieved, would annihilate the cities beneath them.†   (source)
  • There was nothing left for him, except to annihilate himself, except to smash the failure into which he had shaped his life, to throw it away, before the feet of mockingly laughing gods.†   (source)
  • She felt at once calm and annihilating emptiness, and a cold and overwhelming fullness.†   (source)
  • Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.   (source)
    annihilated = completely destroyed
  • You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future.   (source)
  • With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.   (source)
    annihilate = completely destroy
  • War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century.   (source)
    annihilating = complete destruction or defeat
  • Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.   (source)
    annihilated = completely defeated
  • Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind.   (source)
    annihilated = completely destroyed
  • "Yes, if annihilated all at once," Vittoria shot back, "which nobody would ever do!"†   (source)
  • Or would it be all the more annihilatingly delicious?†   (source)
  • If he decided to fight, he would be annihilated.†   (source)
  • Monarchy and aristocracy must be annihilated, and the rights of the people firmly established.†   (source)
  • I glance down at the red peppers I've annihilated while listening to her talk.†   (source)
  • Annihilated in fire and dust, the world is reborn in a hungry rodent digging in the dirt.†   (source)
  • Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense?†   (source)
  • He tried to reconstruct in his imagination the annihilated splendor of the old banana-company town, whose dry swimming pool was filled to the brim with rotting men's and women's shoes, and in the houses of which, destroyed by rye grass, he found the skeleton of a German shepherd dog still tied to a ring by a steel chain and a telephone that was ringing, ringing, ringing until he picked it up and an anguished and distant woman spoke in English, and he said yes, that the strike was over, that three thousand dead people had been thrown into the sea, that the banana company had left, and that Macondo finally had peace after many years.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza would not see the animals of her dreams: the hunters for skins from the tanneries in New Orleans had exterminated the alligators that, with yawning mouths, had played dead for hours on end in the gullies along the shore as they lay in wait for butterflies, the parrots with their shrieking and the monkeys with their lunatic screams had died out as the foliage was destroyed, the manatees with their great breasts that had nursed their young and wept on the banks in a forlorn woman's voice were an extinct species, annihilated by the armored bullets of hunters for sport.†   (source)
  • The E. S. Politovskiy In the Politovskiy's reactor, the runaway fission reaction had virtually annihilated both the incoming seawater and the uranium fuel rods.†   (source)
  • These paths, trodden down for centuries by warring tribesmen, were the very routes taken by the defeated Taliban and al Qaeda after the withering U.S. bombardment had all but annihilated them in 2001.†   (source)
  • It was that, or be annihilated.†   (source)
  • The impact had smashed ten square meters of bow plating, annihilated the sonar dome, knocked a torpedo tube askew, and nearly flooded the torpedo room.†   (source)
  • The antimatter annihilated early!†   (source)
  • If that onager scored a hit on Camp Half-Blood, anything in the blast zone would be annihilated—vaporized by the heat, or disintegrated by the shrapnel.†   (source)
  • Some of the prominent players, several of whom had handed down verdicts in sex-crime trials or participated in the public debate, would be annihilated.†   (source)
  • One Englishman had declared in his presence, "I had rather America had been annihilated, than that she should have carried her point."†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit annihilated the field, breaking the track record while carrying 130 pounds, two more than War Admiral had lugged in the Pimlico Special.†   (source)
  • Instead, he tutored Katherine I. And one session turned into one each week, and then into two each week, and by the next month, she came over to his house with Krazy Keith to watch, with Colin's parents and Hassan, as Colin annihilated a poor sap named Sanjiv Reddy in the first episode of KranialKidz.†   (source)
  • Staring at them, the perspiring entertainer at last understood their silence, for suddenly he knew that these were phantoms, the ghosts of the legally annihilated, the hanged, the gassed, the electrocuted-and in the same instant he realized that he was there to join them, that the gold-painted steps had led to a scaffold, that the platform on which he stood was opening beneath him.†   (source)
  • I annihilated him.†   (source)
  • The 3rd Platoon virtually annihilated the very enemy that had been massing for devastation of its own.†   (source)
  • There is one persuasive explanation for those self-annihilated soldiers, and it speaks to the corruption of Bushido that was wrought by Japan's malignant military regime.†   (source)
  • "Suck" is an especially satisfying word, especially annihilating.†   (source)
  • It gives their guard something to do when they're not out annihilating mavericks.†   (source)
  • Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay?†   (source)
  • Refuse, and I will give the order to annihilate it.†   (source)
  • Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.†   (source)
  • If a single one of those granite giants chose to crumble, it would annihilate this train.†   (source)
  • It was not for them to expel or annihilate it.†   (source)
  • He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Björck.†   (source)
  • That August, the Japanese War Ministry would issue a clarification of this order, sending it to all POW camp commanders: At such time as the situation becomes urgent and it be extremely important, the POWs will be concentrated and confined in their present location and under heavy guard the preparation for the final disposition will be made ....Whether they are destroyed individually or in groups, or however it is done, with mass bombing, poisonous smoke, poisons, drowning, decapitation, or what, dispose of them as the situation dictates ....In any case it is the aim not to allow the escape of a single one, to annihilate them all, and not to leave any traces.†   (source)
  • Of course they did not even remotely suspect that the missile, when it was fired, the one that would annihilate the family's Good Name forever, would come from a completely unexpected quarter.†   (source)
  • But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again.†   (source)
  • I come to annihilate you!†   (source)
  • Her mother had spent ten years at Äppelviken, and it was where she finally died at only forty-six, after one last annihilating cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire.†   (source)
  • In former days I would have said something annihilating to her, some scabby, scalding remark, but I can't think of anything right off the bat.†   (source)
  • Your nose ignites, flameless kerosene (and, some say, Drano) laced with ephedrine you want to cry powdered demons bite through cartilage and sinuses, take dead aim at your brain, jump inside want to scream troops of tapping feet fall into rhythm, marking time, right between your eyes get the urge to dance louder, louder, ultra gray-matter power, shock waves of energy mushroom inside your head you want to let go detonate, annihilate barriers, bring down the walls, unleashing floodwaters, freeing long-captive dreams to ride the current through arteries and capillaries, pulsing, rushing, raging torrents pounding against your heart sweeping you away.†   (source)
  • The Biscuit was a ferocious competitor famous for slowing down to let challengers catch him, then annihilating them with dazzling bursts of speed, even after setting world record fractions.†   (source)
  • Thus the man of productive genius assumed in your world the disguise of a playboy and became a destroyer of wealth, choosing to annihilate his fortune rather than surrender it to guns.†   (source)
  • But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man's deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense.†   (source)
  • He'll annihilate her credibility.†   (source)
  • Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking-that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action-that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise-that a concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality-that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind-that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one's consciousness.†   (source)
  • I want to be able to go on any talk show on TV and present documentation that annihilates the prosecution's game.†   (source)
  • And Joel, with his mouth fallen open, wheeled upon his sister and stared at her; and she avoided his eyes, saying to herself, No, No, and protect her, O God, protect Thy poor child and give her strength; and Andrew, his face locked in a murderer's grimace, continued the furious and annihilating words which were bursting within him to be spoken, groaned within himself, God, if You exist, come here and let me spit in Your face.†   (source)
  • He saw Kamaswami, saw the servants, the orgies, the gamblers with the dice, the musicians, saw Kamala's song-bird in the cage, lived through all this once again, breathed Sansara, was once again old and tired, felt once again disgust, felt once again the wish to annihilate himself, was once again healed by the holy Om.†   (source)
  • So this was how things were with him, so doomed was he, so much he had lost his way and was forsaken by all knowledge, that he had been able to seek death, that this wish, this wish of a child, had been able to grow in him: to find rest by annihilating his body!†   (source)
  • Here the Son and the Father alike are annihilated—as personality-masks over the unnamed.†   (source)
  • They are blown to pieces, annihilated—there are only broken bits of trenches, holes linked by cracks, nests of craters, that is all.†   (source)
  • At the other end of the barbican there was another portcullis, so that they could be trapped between the two and annihilated from above, while the bartizans, or hanging turrets, had holes in their floors through which the defenders could drop things on their heads.†   (source)
  • And when I thought of her doing with another man what she had done with me, that she would forget herself the same, and praise him and kiss him, and kiss in the same places, gone out of her mind with tenderness, eyes wide, hugging his head, opening her legs, it just about annihilated me.†   (source)
  • which he had brought from Mississippi, his overcoat (as thin and vain for what it was as the suit) lying on the floor where he had not even bothered to raise it (—the winter of '64 now, the army retreated across Alabama, into Georgia; now Carolina was just at their backs and Bon, the officer, thinking 'We will either be caught and annihilated or Old Joe will extricate us and we will make contact with Lee in front of Richmond and then we will at least have the privilege of surrender:.†   (source)
  • When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change.†   (source)
  • Ego is not annihilated in them; rather, it is enlarged; instead of thinking only of himself, the individual becomes dedicated to the whole of his society.†   (source)
  • But at the termination of the present period, instead of beginning again immediately to improve (as in the cycle described by the Jains), all is first to be annihilated in a cataclysm of fire and flood, * A divine year is equal to 36o human years.†   (source)
  • The six months were annihilated, and it was the night he had fled.†   (source)
  • Two thundering shots annihilated this silence.†   (source)
  • Pity, wrath, heroism, filled them, but the power of putting two and two together was annihilated.†   (source)
  • Time bent back, progress was annihilated, and he was mazed with futility.†   (source)
  • She was like the stiff-necked unbelievers of Scripture, who must be annihilated to be convinced.†   (source)
  • When I die the world will be annihilated, as far as I'm concerned.†   (source)
  • Juan: you are floored, quelled, annihilated.†   (source)
  • It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was being gradually annihilated.†   (source)
  • All those busy and ingenious speculations were now annihilated by the conduct of his captors.†   (source)
  • There you stood, stammering, stupefied, annihilated.†   (source)
  • All my tactics lay in simply being utterly annihilated and prostrate before her purity.†   (source)
  • An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight!†   (source)
  • Two divisions, the fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated.†   (source)
  • That formidable remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead.†   (source)
  • Within ten short minutes after we had opened fire, armed resistance was totally annihilated, the campaign was ended, we fifty-four were masters of England.†   (source)
  • In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the Heat-Rays.†   (source)
  • If he had thought the regiment was about to be annihilated perhaps he could have amputated himself from it.†   (source)
  • The past could always be annihilated.†   (source)
  • He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them annihilated: he was one of those who, during this awful Reign of Terror, had been the first to utter the historic and ferocious desire "that aristocrats might have but one head between them, so that it might be cut off with a single stroke of the guillotine."†   (source)
  • Do you suppose heaven is like earth, where people persuade themselves that what is done can be undone by repentance; that what is spoken can be unspoken by withdrawing it; that what is true can be annihilated by a general agreement to give it the lie?†   (source)
  • At noon, when lawyers appeared and the tenants were in new flats commandeered by Martin, the wreckers set fire to the lower stories, and in half an hour the buildings had been annihilated.†   (source)
  • All sorrow was annihilated, not only for Indians, but for foreigners, birds, caves, railways, and the stars; all became joy, all laughter; there had never been disease nor doubt, misunderstanding, cruelty, fear.†   (source)
  • At any time the destruction that had already singed the northwestern borders of the metropolis, and had annihilated Ealing and Kilburn, might strike among these houses and leave them smoking ruins.†   (source)
  • As a final effort, the singer rendered some verses which described a vision of Britain being annihilated by America, and Ireland bursting her bonds.†   (source)
  • But of late they have grown, more candid and are ashamed of the expression 'love of country,' and have annihilated the very spirit of the words as something injurious and petty and undignified.†   (source)
  • Had the Martians aimed only at destruction, they might on Monday have annihilated the entire population of London, as it spread itself slowly through the home counties.†   (source)
  • The carpenter created communistic states, while Sondelius, proclaiming that he did not care whether he worked under socialism or an emperor so long as he could bully people into being well, annihilated tuberculosis and by dawn had cancer fleeing.†   (source)
  • They cannot behold the living God without hatred, and they cry out that the God of life should be annihilated, that God should destroy Himself and His own creation.†   (source)
  • "According to that, if my senses are annihilated, if my body is dead, I can have no existence of any sort?" he queried.†   (source)
  • "What do you want?" he shouted, apparently astonished that such a ragged fellow was not annihilated by the majesty of his glance.†   (source)
  • His quality was such that he could have annihilated them both in the heat of action; but to accomplish the deed by oral poison was beyond the nerve of his enmity.†   (source)
  • The Emperor, with the main body, was away at Ligny, where he had utterly annihilated the Prussians, and was now free to bring his whole force to bear upon the allies.†   (source)
  • Annihilated in a moment.†   (source)
  • And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.†   (source)
  • First of all, justice compels us to say that after the departure of poor, annihilated Akakiy Akakievitch he felt something like remorse.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated; oftener the boat's bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which the headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body.†   (source)
  • And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.†   (source)
  • He shook his head and beckoned her to come away, but she was fascinated just then by the freedom of Speculative Philosophy, and kept her seat, trying to find out what the wise gentlemen intended to rely upon after they had annihilated all the old beliefs.†   (source)
  • The happiness of his own chosen English home, the necessity of being always actively employed, the swift changes and troubles of the time which had followed on one another so fast, that the events of this week annihilated the immature plans of last week, and the events of the week following made all new again; he knew very well, that to the force of these circumstances he had yielded:—not without disquiet, but still without continuous and accumulating resistance.†   (source)
  • The mineral crust of the globe threatened to burst up, the granite foundations to come together with a crash, the fissure through which we were helplessly driven would be filled up, the void would be full of crushed fragments of rock, and we poor wretched mortals were to be buried and annihilated in this dreadful consummation.†   (source)
  • I am thinking of the sort of figure I cut the first time I saw you, when you annihilated my poor sketch with your criticism.†   (source)
  • Her body, relieved, no longer thought; another life was beginning; it seemed to her that her being, mounting toward God, would be annihilated in that love like a burning incense that melts into vapour.†   (source)
  • Is it credible that the democracy which has annihilated the feudal system and vanquished kings will respect the citizen and the capitalist?†   (source)
  • The shattering of all her little dream-world, the crushing blow on her new-born passion, afflicted her pleasure-craving nature with an overpowering pain that annihilated all impulse to resistance, and suspended her anger.†   (source)
  • The attendants were not slow to echo the sigh, and Miss Knag was apparently on the eve of favouring them with some further moral reflections, when the voice of Madame Mantalini, conveyed through the speaking-tube, ordered Miss Nickleby upstairs to assist in the arrangement of the show-room; a distinction which caused Miss Knag to toss her head so much, and bite her lips so hard, that her powers of conversation were, for the time, annihilated.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan, however, stupefied, cast down, annihilated by all that happened, stood, with crossed arms, before the Musketeer and Mme. Bonacieux.†   (source)
  • He made several efforts to obey, but his little strength was annihilated for the time, and he fell back again with a moan.†   (source)
  • She was weeping that her dream of her position being made clear and definite had been annihilated forever.†   (source)
  • He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman.†   (source)
  • Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle.†   (source)
  • The demands of life, which had seemed to her annihilated by her father's death, all at once rose before her with a new, previously unknown force and took possession of her.†   (source)
  • So vivid was the expression, or so intense the minister's perception of it, that it seemed still to remain painted on the darkness after the meteor had vanished, with an effect as if the street and all things else were at once annihilated.†   (source)
  • The memory of her lover came back to her with dazzling attractions; she threw her whole soul into it, borne away towards this image with a fresh enthusiasm; and Charles seemed to her as much removed from her life, as absent forever, as impossible and annihilated, as if he had been about to die and were passing under her eyes.†   (source)
  • If all else perished, and HE remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.†   (source)
  • When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for time began with man.†   (source)
  • With a mysterious and terrible Past, which had annihilated his memory, and a blank Future before him, he had only this visionary and impalpable Now, which, if you once look closely at it, is nothing.†   (source)
  • "I am crushed, I am annihilated, I am no longer a man!" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, letting go her hand, but still gazing into her brimming eyes.†   (source)
  • He is crushed, annihilated now!†   (source)
  • All but annihilated!†   (source)
  • There he stood, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the abominable things viewed at such close quarters.†   (source)
  • 'They won't do that,' he replied: 'if they did, you must have me removed secretly; and if you neglect it you shall prove, practically, that the dead are not annihilated!'†   (source)
  • After a short suspense, it was opened by a tall, gaunt man, without neckerchief, and otherwise extremely slovenly; his features were lost in masses of shaggy hair that hung on his shoulders; and HIS eyes, too, were like a ghostly Catherine's with all their beauty annihilated.†   (source)
  • The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock.†   (source)
  • The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance.†   (source)
  • All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly drawing in and around the insurrection.†   (source)
  • It has already annihilated all the tribes who formerly inhabited the sea-coast.†   (source)
  • "Science annihilates distance," said my father disconcertingly.†   (source)
  • He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor.†   (source)
  • Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating Twelve-in-One!†   (source)
  • The adventure itself had given him the capacity to annihilate all opposition.†   (source)
  • With a gesture as simple as the pressing of a button, he annihilates the impressive configuration.†   (source)
  • For them there was no yesterday or tomorrow, only the living moment of today; their only task was to annihilate the enemy that confronted them in any manner possible.†   (source)
  • It was a look that did not simply criticize the lecturer, annihilating the famous man with its delicate but crushing irony.†   (source)
  • He saw himself winning Napoleonic triumphs in battle, falling, with his fierce picked men, like a thunderbolt upon an enemy's flank, trapping, hemming, and annihilating.†   (source)
  • Mammy threw him an annihilating glance.†   (source)
  • A bird streaked across the gray sky and blindly I translated it into an airplane and that airplane into many (against the French sky) annihilating the artillery station with vertical bombs.†   (source)
  • The hero whose attachment to ego is already annihilate passes back and forth across the horizons of the world, in and out of the dragon, as readily as a king through all the rooms of his house.†   (source)
  • They did not know how gallant was their cause: they knew only that they had stood against the will of a priest-ridden community—the most annihilating force in the village.†   (source)
  • I saw at the same time that the root of his pessimism was not world-contempt but self-contempt; for however mercilessly he might annihilate institutions and persons in his talk he never spared himself.†   (source)
  • Often Eliza, in the midst of long, minutely replenished reminiscence, would grow conscious, while she was purse-lipped in revery, of this annihilating mockery, would slap at his hand angrily as he gooched her, and shake a pursed piqued face at him, saying, with a heavy scorn that set him off into fresh "whahwhahs": "I'll declare, boy!†   (source)
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