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Familiar Quotations

Crushings

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.–Milan Kundera

Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.–Homer Simpson

Use in Literature

Crushings

That the expense of crushing and milling might be almost prohibitive.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.

Five hundred added now would come nigh to crushing me.–T.S. Arthur in The Two Wives.

The native method of crushing is exceedingly rude and ineffective.–Samuel White Baker in Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879.

The shot was succeeded by the hiss of the cannon's priming; then the blaze and the crushing thunder of the monstrous gun burst upon the savages with such deafening roar that it seemed as if their very mountains had been rent asunder.–R.M. Ballantyne in The Coral Island (A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean).

Krag suddenly bent over and snatched off Gangnet's hat, crushing it together in his hairy fist and throwing it far out into the stream.–Honoré de Balzac in The Village Rector.

Your persecutor, whoever he is, seems to me so powerful that it would be well to take no decisive measures until you are sure of some way of confounding and crushing him.–Honoré de Balzac in Ferragus.

That can be due only to the strain of crushing produced by the stress of compression.–H. Barber in The Aeroplane Speaks.

So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects.–L. Frank Baum in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

It was an age when the love of truth was almost dead, extinguished partly by the crushing tyranny of omnipotent Emperors, partly by the intellectual and moral degeneration of pagan society.–Norman Bentwich in Josephus.

• Prefacev
• Familiar Quotations1
• Crushings1
• Use in Literature2
• Crushings2
• Crushings – "Arms"11
• Crushings – "Being"12
• Crushings – "Blow"12
• Crushings – "Body"14
• Crushings – "Burden"15
• Crushings – "Danger"16
• Crushings – "Defeat"16
• Crushings – "Foot"17
• Crushings – "Feeling"18
• Crushings – "Few"19
• Crushings – "Fire"19
• Crushings – "Force"20
• Crushings – "Forward"21
• Crushings – "Great"22
• Crushings – "Hand"23
• Crushings – "Head"24
• Crushings – "Heard"25
• Crushings – "Heart"25
• Crushings – "Heavy"26
• Crushings – "Houses"26
• Crushings – "Life"27
• Crushings – "Lips"28
• Crushings – "Little"28
• Crushings – "Make"29
• Crushings – "Man"30
• Crushings – "Means"31
• Crushings – "Nothing"32
• Crushings – "Once"32
• Crushings – "Power"33
• Crushings – "Pressure"34
• Crushings – "Sense"34
• Crushings – "Strength"35
• Crushings – "Thing"35
• Crushings – "Thought"36
• Crushings – "Thus"37
• Crushings – "Weight"38
• Crushings – "World"39
• Crushings – "Years"40
• Nonfiction Usage42
• Bibliographic Usage42
• Encyclopedic Usage43
• Lexicographic Usage50
• Index77