A most ruinous state of things for a morbid, spoilt girl like Rose," said Mrs. Jane, severely.

The Tower of Ghosts was the most ruinous of Harrenhal's five immense towers.

One of the most ruinous new pests, the ash whitefly, apparently hitchhiked to the suburban San Fernando Valley from Europe or the Middle East.

But most couples don't realize that divorce can also be among the most ruinous financial moves anyone can make.

After the most ruinous winter of racing in memory, some of the senior stars of the sport staged a roaring return to spring yesterday in the Westchester Handicap at Aqueduct.

It begins with the most ruinous episode in its subject's life, the May 1940 run-in with German troops that led to Wodehouse's incarceration and all but destroyed his career.

And, critically, he attempts to soften the edges on some of the most ruinous mistakes he committed during the trial.

We cannot, without the most ruinous, universal, and desperate confusion.

He commissioned a survey of all aspects of the colony including its buildings which he found to be in a "most ruinous state of decay".

Neild wrote that it was in "a most ruinous and insecure state, and the habitations of the debtors wretched in the extreme."