"Crushing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lady Harcourt. The world has changed with both of us. But Fortune, while she has been crushing me, has been very ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... pasteboard, edge to edge, and press them down with your hand, and you will see them bend out at the sides. Therefore, if you can keep the arch from starting out at the points p, p, it cannot curve in at the top, put what weight on it you will, unless by sheer crushing of ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin
... never seen a bulb in his life, Larry unblushingly asserted that he had set out thousands for Sir Lucius O'Grady of O'Grady Castle, "an illegant place intirely, wid tin miles o' garden-walks," added Mr. O'Rourke, crushing Mr. Bilkins, who boasted only ...
— A Rivermouth Romance • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... Domingo as an example before them, how long will it be before they try to raise themselves into independent states? And if they should succeed in crushing us in these our last remaining tenements, I would bet ten to one that none of the new Governments will put on mourning for our departure out of the new world. We must well remember that our own Government was taxed with injustice ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton
... pulled up. OLD MORALITY says he's never seen "the publication;" has asked friends near him, and everyone says he has neither seen, heard, nor read of it. "The House," says the SPEAKER, by way of crushing ignominy, "has no control over the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 16, 1890 • Various
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