"Smash up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I've done it before and I'll do it now—smash up the place! Gimme! You're getting me crazy! This time you got ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... entrance for ships to only three cables, or a little more than six hundred yards. Wolfe saw that the north point, where the lighthouse stood, was undefended, and might be seized and used as a British battery to smash up the French batteries on Goat Island at the harbour mouth. Acting on this idea, he marched with twelve hundred men across the stretch of country between the British camp and the lighthouse. The fleet brought round his ...
— The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolf • William Wood
... put into Loando. Understand, this was the first time we went into Loando. I have learned that wretched hole well enough since. And it was as we were running out of Loando, that, in reversing the engine too suddenly, lest we should smash up an old Portuguese woman's bum-boat, that the slides or supports of the piston-rod just shot out of the grooves they run in on the top, came cleverly down on the outside of the carriage, gave that odious g-r-r-r, which I can hear now, and then, dump,—down came the whole ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale
... 2nd-3rd May, they have been hard at work. Already their lines cover quite half the ground between the Aegean and the Straits; whilst, in rear again, we can see wired patches which we guess to be enfilading machine gun redoubts. We must resolutely and at all cost make progress and smash up these new spiders' webs of steel before they connect into elastic but ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... is no longer my father," replied No-cha. "I gave him back my substance; why did he burn my temple and smash up ...
— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner |
