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  • Adler had helped create a revolving fund for the purpose of buying old houses that were in imminent danger of being razed; the houses were then sold as soon as possible to people who promised to restore them properly.†   (source)
  • I am not here to raze your collections.†   (source)
  • The railroad stretched to Harrisburg in one direction and Philadelphia in the other, and all along it buildings were being razed and old families were moving out and industrial tenants in.†   (source)
  • When I went back to visit Clover and found Main Street razed, it had been a few months since Deborah and I talked.†   (source)
  • They raze their old wood hut.†   (source)
  • In answer, Saphira razed a drift with her tail, clearing it with one powerful stroke.†   (source)
  • The place later got razed to build Locke High School.†   (source)
  • The entire ghetto has been razed by fire.†   (source)
  • So that on a morning when she awoke in high spirits she would raze the clothes closets, empty the trunks, tear apart the attics, and wage a war of separation against the piles of clothing that had been seen once too often, the hats she had never worn because there had been no occasion to wear them while they were still in fashion, the shoes copied by European artists from those used by empresses for their coronations, and which were scorned here by highborn ladies because they were…†   (source)
  • A historical marker faded by weather stated the First Church of the Godly had once stood on the site, but had been destroyed when it had been struck by lightning and razed by fire on July 7, 1652.†   (source)
  • "I'm wondering if you ever think of razing it, just to show mercy?"†   (source)
  • In other words, an old city that was razed, burned to cinders, and crushed into the ground, even the roads disappearing, the earth left to run wild over the wreckage.†   (source)
  • Every cell in my body had been razed to ash.†   (source)
  • The salt water from the sea ruined the crops, and fires razed whole regions of cities and towns.†   (source)
  • The old saying makes this very clear: 'If a daughter doesn't marry out, she's not valuable; if fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.'†   (source)
  • Yes, and within two years, Moctezuma's vast empire was razed to dust.†   (source)
  • They ripped fire from the earth and razed the cities to the ground.†   (source)
  • Just one looked capable of razing Rowan to its foundations and yet thirteen were now advancing upon the citadel fifty yards at a stride.†   (source)
  • And whilst you are razing Yunkai, my sweet, Meereen shall rise behind you.†   (source)
  • In the next half-hour, Boyle's mills were razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • Sherman had razed Columbia during the Civil War.†   (source)
  • The tribes are at war, the Temple's been razed, and Circe has gone to the Winterlands to join with the creatures."†   (source)
  • And then, too, it is a nearly wondrous sensation, between hacks, for just as I've expelled every last ounce of breath, nearly coughed out a whole lung, there's also a feeling of something like purity again, a razing and renewal, as if I might wholly banish all that I was just a moment ago.†   (source)
  • Though it has broken and razed everything that: once stood within me, I've lost nothing.†   (source)
  • In the razing of Targos, the wizard had demonstrated his ability to likewise destroy Bryn Shander, and the halfling had little doubt that Kessell would carry out his vile threat.†   (source)
  • A large portion of New York's posher homes in this area had been condemned and razed.†   (source)
  • Shortly after this, Gordon and Dudorov were in the town of Karachev, which had been razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • By midnight your place will be razed to the cellar.†   (source)
  • The school, hospital and electricity station along the main road were all razed to the ground.   (source)
    razed = flattened
  • Temples were razed, blood spilled on altars.   (source)
    razed = completely destroyed
  • Peeking past the drawn window blinds, they saw razed cities.   (source)
  • Of no use to Japan in razed cities, the POWs had been shipped to Naoetsu to be reenslaved for the empire.   (source)
  • II August 1944 The Fuhrer is to issue a decree that Warsaw is to be razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • When the blood of the last heroes is spilled here, the Acropolis shall be razed.†   (source)
  • Razed, wiped out, not a brick of them left standing.†   (source)
  • Then raze it to the ground and build anew to suit yourself.†   (source)
  • If they should dare attack me, this time I shall raze their Yellow City, to the ground.†   (source)
  • And on another was a giant museum of architecture showcasing life-size replicas of all the grand old buildings that had been razed in the city of Moscow to make way for the new.†   (source)
  • "I understand that there's a little history of dismantling here in Russia; and that the razing of a beautiful old building is bound to engender a little sorrow for what's gone and some excitement for what's to come.†   (source)
  • While at the time, some of the finer buildings had been lifted and set back, most had been razed and replaced with towers, in accordance with a new ordinance that buildings on first-rate streets stand at least ten stories tall.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the most stalwart workers in the urban centers were wearying under the burden of the continuous workweek; artists faced tighter constraints on what they could or could not imagine; churches were shuttered, repurposed, or razed; and when revolutionary hero Sergei Kirov was assassinated, the nation was purged of an array of politically unreliable elements.†   (source)
  • I'll let go of my anger when you forget yours over the Empire's role in the death of your uncle and the razing of your farm.†   (source)
  • Only six months ago, Astaroth's armies had rampaged across the school's sprawling campus, burning its forests, razing its structures, and slaughtering its flocks as they marched upon Rowan's final refuge in the cliffs.†   (source)
  • My farm was razed.†   (source)
  • When he was a boy it had been timber and wattle, but Robert Baratheon had razed that structure to the ground.†   (source)
  • Olympus to preserve or raze.†   (source)
  • We will raze it and salt the earth.†   (source)
  • But he was wholly convinced of the city's corruption and believed that the best thing would be to raze it and rebuild it without the taint of perversity the religion of Helgrind had infected it with.†   (source)
  • It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands of years, was saying back to her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face?†   (source)
  • Olympus to preserve or raze.†   (source)
  • He began to speak in a low monotone, and Eragon listened with growing amazement as he wove an epic of attacks, sieges, and betrayal, of leaving Carvahall, crossing the Spine, and razing the docks of Teirm, of sailing through a monstrous whirlpool.†   (source)
  • As I was checking the state and condition of the mess hall and the latrines and supply dump, ordering men to clean and organize and raze (the secondary rounds of busywork in that long, odd probation from any fighting), I was almost certain that the soldiers were sensing my impatience and discomfort.†   (source)
  • It was dull, tedious work, lying there day after day, but it was necessary in order to maintain the deception that Eragon was still with the Varden, so Saphira did not complain, even if after twelve or more hours spent on the rough-hard-ground dirtying her scales, she felt like fighting a thousand soldiers, or razing a forest with tooth and claw and fire, or leaping up and flying until she could fly no more or until she reached the end of earth, water, and air.†   (source)
  • The streets seemed razed by exhaustion, not by rest, as if the men inside the walls were not asleep, but had collapsed.†   (source)
  • If only you'd had the good sense to raze the castle and carry the two little princelings back to Pyke as hostages, you might have won the war in a stroke."†   (source)
  • For instance, there was a fire at the d'Anconia ore docks in Valparaiso tomorrow morning, a fire that razed them to the ground along with half of the port structures.†   (source)
  • Roark's hand went on razing walls, splitting, rebuilding in furious strokes.†   (source)
  • Don't set out to raze all shrines—you'll frighten men.†   (source)
  • Enshrine mediocrity—and the shrines are razed.†   (source)
  • And the day will come when I shall break all the chains of the earth, and raze the cities of the enslaved, and my home will become the capital of a world where each man will be free to exist for his own sake.†   (source)
  • At the mission, where Mr Tanimoto left the party, Father Kleinsorge was dismayed to see the building razed.†   (source)
  • Razed off.†   (source)
  • Men say, I know, that there will be no happiness until Rome is razed from her hills.†   (source)
  • Nor is that all; my house has been destroyed—razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • 'If I had been shut up in any place to pine and suffer, I should always hate that place and wish to burn it down, or raze it to the ground.†   (source)
  • The fortifying of the Kremlin, for which la Mosquee (as Napoleon termed the church of Basil the Beatified) was to have been razed to the ground, proved quite useless.†   (source)
  • Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw.†   (source)
  • Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.†   (source)
  • It ought to be razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • Still he proceeded like one who bore a charmed life; for, while his rude frontier garments were more than once cut, his skin was not razed.†   (source)
  • The valiant warrior[295] famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.†   (source)
  • And last, though not least, hear Ezra, the second Moses, in his visions of the night, and ask him who is the lion with human voice that says to the eagle—which is Rome—'Thou hast loved liars, and overthrown the cities of the industrious, and razed their walls, though they did thee no harm.†   (source)
  • If Messala were here, he might say, as others have said, that the exact trace of your lineage stopped when the Assyrian took Jerusalem, and razed the Temple, with all its precious stores; but you might plead the pious action of Zerubbabel, and retort that all verity in Roman genealogy ended when the barbarians from the West took Rome, and camped six months upon her desolated site.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding that, Messer Nicolo Vitelli in our times has been seen to demolish two fortresses in Citta di Castello so that he might keep that state; Guido Ubaldo, Duke of Urbino, on returning to his dominion, whence he had been driven by Cesare Borgia, razed to the foundations all the fortresses in that province, and considered that without them it would be more difficult to lose it; the Bentivogli returning to Bologna came to a similar decision.†   (source)
  • Then at last his lady in her soft-belted gown besought him weeping, speaking of all the ills that come to men whose town is taken: soldiers put to the sword; the city razed by fire; alien hands carrying off the children and the women, Hearing these fearful things, his heart was stirred to action: he put on his shining gear and fought off ruin from the Aitolians.†   (source)
  • The power filtered down from His Majesty to the Rases, the Dejazmaches, and the lesser nobility, and then to the vassals and peons.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: Generally, the spelling razes is preferred.
  • Thus they fared two hours or more trasing and rasing either other, where they might hit any bare place.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: Generally, the spelling razing is preferred.
  • Forthwith, form every squadron and each band, The heads and leaders thither haste where stood Their great Commander—godlike Shapes, and Forms Excelling human; princely Dignities; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones, Though on their names in Heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and rased By their rebellion from the Books of Life.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: Generally, the spelling razed is preferred.
  • Thus they fared two hours or more trasing and rasing either other, where they might hit any bare place.†   (source)
  • And then when Sir Gareth was in the field all folks saw him well and plainly that he was in yellow colours; and there he rased off helms and pulled down knights, that King Arthur had marvel what knight he was, for the king saw by his hair that it was the same knight.†   (source)
  • And then when Sir Gareth was in the field all folks saw him well and plainly that he was in yellow colours; and there he rased off helms and pulled down knights, that King Arthur had marvel what knight he was, for the king saw by his hair that it was the same knight.†   (source)
  • …Pricker, hard rider, Pricking, spurring, Prime, A.M., Prise, capture, Puissance, power, Purfle, trimming, Purfled, embroidered, Purvey, provide, Quarrels, arrowheads, Questing, barking, Quick, alive, Quit, repaid,; acquitted, behaved, Raced (rased), tore, Rack (of bulls), herd, Raines, a town in Brittany famous for its cloth, Ramping, raging, Range, rank, station, Ransacked, searched, Rashed, fell headlong, Rashing, rushing, Rasing, rushing, Rasure, Raundon, impetuosity, Rear, raise,…†   (source)
  • And then Beaumains threw his shield from him, and proffered to fight with Sir Launcelot on foot; and so they rushed together like boars, tracing, rasing, and foining to the mountenance of an hour; and Sir Launcelot felt him so big that he marvelled of his strength, for he fought more liker a giant than a knight, and that his fighting was durable and passing perilous.†   (source)
  • And then Beaumains threw his shield from him, and proffered to fight with Sir Launcelot on foot; and so they rushed together like boars, tracing, rasing, and foining to the mountenance of an hour; and Sir Launcelot felt him so big that he marvelled of his strength, for he fought more liker a giant than a knight, and that his fighting was durable and passing perilous.†   (source)
  • With this either knights departed in sunder, and they came together with all their might, and either of their horses fell to the earth, and they avoided their horses, and put their shields afore them and drew their swords, and either gave other sad strokes, now here, now there, rasing, tracing, foining, and hurling like two boars, the space of two hours.†   (source)
  • With this either knights departed in sunder, and they came together with all their might, and either of their horses fell to the earth, and they avoided their horses, and put their shields afore them and drew their swords, and either gave other sad strokes, now here, now there, rasing, tracing, foining, and hurling like two boars, the space of two hours.†   (source)
  • …Purvey, provide, Quarrels, arrowheads, Questing, barking, Quick, alive, Quit, repaid,; acquitted, behaved, Raced (rased), tore, Rack (of bulls), herd, Raines, a town in Brittany famous for its cloth, Ramping, raging, Range, rank, station, Ransacked, searched, Rashed, fell headlong, Rashing, rushing, Rasing, rushing, Rasure, Raundon, impetuosity, Rear, raise, Rechate, note of recall, Recomforted, comforted, cheered, Recounter, rencontre, encounter, Recover, rescue, Rede, advise,; sb.†   (source)
  • Numerous houses are razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.†   (source)
  • Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm; And I did scorn it, and disdain to fly.†   (source)
  • Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary, And pitch our evils there?†   (source)
  • And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you; My father is gone wild into his grave, For in his tomb lie my affections; And with his spirit sadly I survive, To mock the expectation of the world, To frustrate prophecies and to raze out Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down After my seeming.†   (source)
  • — Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me,—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?†   (source)
  • Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?†   (source)
  • Then certifies your lordship that this night He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm: Besides, he says there are two councils held; And that may be determin'd at the one Which may make you and him to rue at the other.†   (source)
  • Ay, that he razed.†   (source)
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