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  • Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

    Moby Dick: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Reader and Other Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • Like those who had hastily and unwisely propounded it, the all-destroying plague had long since consumed itself, leaving in its wake only empty skies gazing forlornly down on dead worlds.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Like those who had hastily and unwisely propounded it, the all-destroying plague had long since consumed itself, leaving in its wake only empty skies gazing forlornly down on dead worlds.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Like those who had hastily and unwisely propounded it, the all-destroying plague had long since consumed itself, leaving in its wake only empty skies gazing forlornly down on dead worlds.

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Like those who had hastily and unwisely propounded it, the all-destroying plague had long since consumed itself, leaving in its wake only empty skies gazing forlornly down on dead worlds.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • No puny obstacle could thwart the all-destroying, infernal flame which is eating into my exhausted breast!

    Poor Folk 2003

  • The mysterious, all-destroying reaper, called Death, made up his mind to finish the terrible work quickly, as if insulted by the presence of this drunken man at the dark and solemn struggle.

    Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

  • Even the fires that leaped from building to building in the town below were devoid of brilliance, the dancing flames no longer blushing red and orange, but only an all-consuming, all-destroying gray.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • He opposed HUME for developing an all-destroying skepticism inherent in the EMPIRICIST notion of ideas and offered an alternative EPISTEMOLOGY which seeks to defend common-sense.

    Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

  • Today, less than ever can we defend ourselves by force, for there is no effective defense against the all-destroying effect of nuclear missile weapons.

    Lester Bowles Pearson - Nobel Lecture 1957

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