Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Ruin
Some temple’s mouldering tops between,
With venerable grandeur mark the scene.
Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 109.
We should have been ruin’d if we had not been ruin’d.
Themistocles.—Rollin, Ancient History, Book VII. Sect. 2.