wrack and ruin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Where the glen lies a’ in wrack, wi’ the houses toom and black. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Things People Say] Reference
This rack is however a variant of the now defunct word wrack, more usually known to us now as wreck. From Wordnik.com. [pojken Diary Entry] Reference
BTW, in this case I mean "wrack" literally -- a lot of the seaweed was bladder wrack. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I racked my brain (Though the phrase wrack your brain is in common usage, rack is the original form. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Our faces were concealed by the "wrack" that covered the stones; and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
But hard blew the winds, and his ship was a wrack. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
What a signal of wrack is the wrinkle's dull track. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The woe and the wrack-journey, he whom the Wielder's. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Bromine may come from sponges, or sea-wrack, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
I ween that for pride-sake, no wise for wrack-wending. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Alonzo's feelings were on the wrack until she returned. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
And we 'll lose the wrack, too, for the matter of that. From Wordnik.com. [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference
Need-wrack and grim nithing, of night-bales the greatest. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Point -- wrack-grown now, and only to be seen at low tide. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
But whether in calm or wrack-wreath, whether by dark or day. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
You know that Howard Stern is going to wrack (ph) back at it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Kathie Lee Discusses Life After Regis - October 23, 2000] Reference
I ` ve been trying to wrack my brain trying to figure that out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference
Mickle wrack was it soothly for the friend of the Scyldings, 170. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
"Them men ain't on that wrack -- an 'I told the skipper so, see?". From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
And the smitten wood-side roareth 'neath the driving thunder-wrack?. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Come storm, come wrack, at least he'll die with harness on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890] Reference
Take a wrack of Mutton, and a Knuckle of Veal, put them a boiling in. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
He finished with a cough that seemed to wrack him from head to feet. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
In days to come, Rob well knew, dopesickness would wrack him. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Sweet Song] Reference
Not that I was one who craved for wrack and bilge at my nose all the time. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
There would have been moon, but a black wrack of clouds filled the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Even so, Ross got to his feet, moving over to the drifts of storm wrack to gather more. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
And, of course, he had never found time to wrack his brains for the passages that eluded him. From Wordnik.com. [The Worshippers] Reference
We started to wrack up more and more credit card debt just paying hospital co-pays at the time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2009] Reference
"It hath its tempests like the sea, and as violent, and men are ship-wrack't upon pillars like great rocks.". From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
So now that Allen Iverson is in Denver with him, he gets a 15-day head start to wrack up some scoring numbers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2006] Reference
The Marchaunt lesyng his marchaundise by ship - wrack, shall thei impute the daunger and losse, to their wife at home?. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
He is going to be looking at what effect I'm having on the environment by the choices I'm making, the miles that I wrack up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2006] Reference
The Trojans allowed Hawaii to wrack up 459 passing yards and tally three passing touchdowns in their season-opening 49-36 road win. From Wordnik.com. [Mike London on USC secondary: 'They're young and they're fast'] Reference
If these were not to be "the unsubstantial fabric of a vision," he implied, the official builders had better leave the wrack behind. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919] Reference
I often wonder if my artistic impulses (impotence; cataclysms wrack my mind like earthquakes) overrule my other intellectual capacities. From Wordnik.com. [VII] Reference
Pampiniform it writhes, bladder-wrack or kelp, a heavy swell that slops about rustily in the basalt trough, breaking through the sea rush. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
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