"Smash-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first, every man seems to fancy that it takes nothing but brute force and determination to run an automobile or a wife; after the smash-up he ...
— A Guide to Men - Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl • Helen Rowland
... attended a lodge meeting that night at the town we showed in, was asleep and talking in his sleep about passwords and grips, and the freaks and trapeze performers in our car had got through kicking about how the show was running into the ground, when suddenly there was a terrific smash-up ahead, an engine boiler exploded, a freight car of dynamite on a side track exploded and there was a grinding and bumping of cars. Then they rolled down a bank, over and over, so the upper berth was the lower berth half the time, and finally the whole ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... "Big smash-up of freight-cyars in de yard; yass, seh. No seh, cayn't 'zac'ly tell jis how long we be kep' here, but 'f you dislikes to wait, Cap, you needn'. You kin teck a street-cyar here what'll lan' you right down 'mongs' ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... as he sipped the cocktail which the cinema man had ordered, "this chap Romilly was broke, wasn't he?—did a scoot to avoid the smash-up? They say that he had a few hundred thousand dollars over here, ostensibly for buying material, and that he has ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Smash-up on the railroad, down in the rocky cut!" answered Charlie. "Two engines smashed together, and the cars are all busted! I saw it from the top of the hill! ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope
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