Crushed

Examples

• Think twice, you, Micawber, if you don't want to be crushed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He wondered if she did not begin to see what a powerful engine it was, and how nearly it had crushed her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A lovely evening, but late for you to be out alone, he said, as he crushed the snowy heads of the closed flowers with his foot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I neither was crushed nor elated by her lands and gold; I thought not of them, cared not for them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• These pieces were then crushed by power directly applied. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To every gallon of juice to be filtered there is placed in the filter 2 ounces of charcoal, 2 scruples of crushed mustard seed, and 6 drachms of ground sassafras root. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Spirit broken and gone--pulverised--crushed out of him, sir, completely! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The grass was long; but it was trodden down nowhere, save where their own feet had crushed it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle's, she had rows of round heavy collars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Yes, sir, and Jo nearly crushed the small flowerpot with the sudden squeeze she gave it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Crushed at first by his imprisonment, he had soon found a dull relief in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Blow after blow had fallen on him until he was almost crushed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Misfortune crushed him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As he did so he was hit by the Rocket, an engine coming up on the other track, was knocked down, and had one leg crushed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This and fresh-cut clover, the crushed sage as you ride after cattle, wood-smoke and the burning leaves of autumn. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had his foot crushed while laying the foundation of one of the stone piers, and died of lockjaw. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She was as if crushed, powerless in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• McFarlane turned to us with a gesture of despair, and sank into his chair once more like one who is crushed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Centuries of oppression have crushed the creative faculty out of her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Editor: Rosanne