Shattered

Examples

• Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After Ireland came Scotland, where Cromwell shattered a Royalist army at the Battle of Dunbar (1650). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We pass on now to the story of one futile commencement, one glorious shattered beginning of human unity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Shattered by my miserable health and my family troubles, I am incapable of resistance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I owe it to myself, and I owe it to the shattered image, as also to the circumstances over which I have no control. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• George carried the pompous supplies to his mother and the shattered old widower whom it was now the main business of her life to tend and comfort. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This wound will probably shorten my life, having shattered a frame, weak of itself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was shattered, but he was not afraid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Don't fly from unfortunate man in shattered state of health. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• All through the night the Arabs smote in the name of Allah, and pressed upon the shattered and retreating Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I banged the door after me, and I hope I shattered Mr. Fairlie's nervous system for the rest of the day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am feeling the penalty at laSt. My nervous system is shattered; my nights are nights of horror. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The visit, even in my shattered condition, proved to be a most amusing one--thanks entirely to the presence on the scene of Gabriel Betteredge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Poor shattered invalid. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A shattered graceless fellow, stretched at his length here, and next to nothing for you when you are a young widow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He felt bruised and shattered, and there was a dark line under his eyes which Rosamond had not seen before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• While one fellow creature remains to whom aid can be afforded, stay by and prop your shattered, falling engine! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am shattered by it--I have suffered under it, as nobody else has suffered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All three divisions were, as a matter of course, more or less shattered and depleted in numbers from the terrible battle of the day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then he looked down at the shattered bridge and across to the stretch of road which still was clear. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The figure broke into fragments, and Holmes bent eagerly over the shattered remains. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By which he probably meant that his mind would have been shattered to pieces without this fiction of an occupation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Only one, and he a miserable creature, of a crazed aspect, is so shattered and made drunk by horror, that he sings, and tries to dance. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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