She had brought about the downfall of Austria as a great political Power.

Take friendly counsel with them, as to incur their displeasure will mean thy downfall.

If she sincerely believed that the Entente was plotting her downfall, she was justified in attacking instead of waiting to be attacked.

Up to now Germany has given all she could; any further payment will cause a downfall without changing the actual monetary position.

Soon he prophesied the downfall of the Medici, against whom he arrayed a considerable part of the Florentine people.

You might by one single chance-word place me within the power of those who seek my downfall.

The three centuries which follow the downfall of the empire of Charlemagne laid the foundations of modern Europe, and made of it a world wholly different, politically, socially, and religiously, from that which had preceded it.

Again I thought it unlikely that, if we succeeded, the President would survive his downfall.

"Los mismos perros, con nuevos cuellos"said Sarrion to any who sought to convince him that Spain owed her downfall to other causes, and that the Jesuits were no longer what they had been.

The Riverside Magazine has just come and completed my downfall, as it has a syllable left out of one of my verses, as has been the case with a hymn in the hymn-book at Cincinnati and one in the Association Monthly.

Forsaken by friends, hopeless as to their future, deserted even by those who wrought their downfall, these poor girls sink lower and lower, and lead lives of shame and misery.

" Then Great Smash gave such a laugh, and such a swing of her unwieldy body, that one might well have apprehended her downfall.

Where with growing civilization and increasing material prosperity war ceases, military efficiency diminishes, and the resolution to maintain independence under all circumstances fails, there the nations are approaching their downfall, and cannot hold their own politically or racially.

Indeed, he hated bloodshed, injustice, and strife, and beheld the downfall of liberty with indescribable sorrow.

[-59-] Marcellus at once directed all his efforts to compass the downfall of Caesar,for he was of Pompey's party,and among the many measures against him that he proposed was one to the effect that a successor to him should be sent before the appointed time.

From that celebrated day dates the downfall of Turkey, and the growth of Russia.

It describes the downfall of a rich and powerful family from the highest rank of the gentry, and the decadent son's love of a young and emotional lady of the highest circles.

Meanwhile Harley pursued his intrigues to effect the downfall of the Duchess.

The Romance of the Round Table, which in the opinion of prepossessed or thoughtless critics appears so profoundly chivalrous, may be considered one of the works which hastened the downfall of chivalry.

And are there none to lament the downfall of time-honored, hoary-headed slavery?

Elaine Steinbeck (W) Thom Steinbeck & John Steinbeck IV (C); 6May71; R505656. <pb id='220.png' n='1971h1/A/1614' /> Steinbeck tells how ship talk magnified Mussolini's downfall.

He was as enthusiastic as Sir Walter Raleigh a century later, and made promises as rash as he, and created the same exalted hopes, to be followed by bitter disappointments; and consequently he incurred the same hostilities and met the same downfall.

If the light of heaven were ever to descend upon that continent, it would directly occasion its downfall.

In order to demonstrate the fallacy of a reasoning which is so fond of predicting the downfall of our own liberal system, supported by examples drawn from transatlantic states of the middle ages, it is necessary only to recount here a little in detail the forms in which power was obtained and exercised in the most important of them all.

If I live a few years longer, I may have the satisfaction of seeing the downfall of some of the prevailing systems of superstition.'