Overthrown

Examples

• The usual diligence and order of the Counting-house at the Works were overthrown. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The path of scientific progress is strewn with the ruins of overthrown hypotheses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There had been a brief all-German parliament at Frankfort in 1848, which was overthrown in 1849 by the Prussian monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The cables are then passed over towers, on which they are supported in movable saddles, so that the towers are not overthrown by the strain on the cables. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the jar of her whole being, Pity was overthrown. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Becquerel's original hypothesis was thus overthrown. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• His abominations roused his Indian tributary princes to revolt, and he was overthrown (528). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I enjoyed the triumph--the unholy triumph, I fear I must admit--of seeing Mr. Bruff utterly confounded and overthrown by a few plain words from Me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But though her wishes were overthrown, there was no spirit of murmuring within her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Her desires had been blasted, her schemes overthrown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Pressure, however, so far from being overthrown by the discovery, became a greater favourite than ever. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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