half-ruined

The officers, as usual, lived in twos and threes in the roofless, half-ruined houses.

"It seems to me that I can see half-ruined ramparts," said Kennedy.

"Just the same, it's wonderful," Saxon mused, gazing at the big, half-ruined adobe structure.

On the two went, chance leading them toward the broad avenue which lay between the stately piles of the half-ruined edifices and the inner wall of the city.

He wanted water more than any other thing, and so he kept on up a broad avenue toward the great central plaza, where he knew the precious fluid was to be found in a half-ruined building opposite the great palace of the ancient jeddak, who once had ruled this mighty city.

Once a soldier, what would you do with me, a poor orphan, forlorn, without fortune, with nothing but a half-ruined hut and a few ragged nets, the miserable inheritance left by my father to my mother, and by my mother to me?

That girl with a peasant-nun's face had never seen the inside of a house other than some half-ruined caserio in her native hills.

The half-ruined wing on the left (as you approach the house) was once a place of residence standing by itself, and was built in the fourteenth century.

Besides, the monkeys lived there as much as they could be said to live anywhere, and no self-respecting animal would come within eyeshot of it except in times of drought, when the half-ruined tanks and reservoirs held a little water.

"John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide.

Tynt Meadow is the plot of land where monastic life was founded at Mount Saint Bernard, in a half-ruined cottage, in 1835.