Example Sentences

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The self-destroyer is his own enemy: this has ever been my opinion.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

God might pity the self-destroyer, and deal lightly with him at the great audit; but on this earth there was no hope of cure.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)