I was once as desperately in love as you are now; and went through all the 'Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul; dear and divine annihilations, A thousand unknown rites Of joys, and rarified delights.
"Hyperion"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
History will have the air of being atheistic, while recounting to posterity these annihilations, rather than deaths, of the celebrated men of the greatest years of France.
"Atheism Among the People"
Alphonse de Lamartine
In the teeth of these persistent and vigorous annihilations, the Huns still continue their atrocities.
"Erik Dorn"
Ben Hecht