"Smash up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "why half of me is sorry that it let the other half smash up that cast. What claim has a puny person against one flicker ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
... be sure, Ray? It's so different,—so shattering. It seems to smash up all the past into little bits and begin the world all over again—for you and me. It's such a near thing. I've seen the married people and wondered about it. You might get so weary of ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... the old man said to me, "seem' as how ye ain't busy it might be yer wouldn't mind startin' a bit of prayer as how we don't smash up one o' them poor fellows. We jist got ter take some chances, fer I mistrust th' Lord he be wantin' ter save that doctor o' ours an' only needs ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick
... Contractor Darwell will be responsible for this smash up," said John Laning. "Are ...
— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield
... it ought to be the way of every general," growled Forrest. "You cut down a tree by keepin' on cuttin' out chips with an axe, an' you smash up an army by hittin' an' hittin' an' keepin' on hittin'. We ought to charge right out of our works an' jump on the Yankees with ...
— The Guns of Shiloh • Joseph A. Altsheler
... was visibly impressed. "Yes, it is fine and you certainly do put life into anything you say; but that's just it, you put too much life in it and smash up everything you touch. Hurry now and get that pattern, for I want it as ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown
... "Why should you smash up everything in that way, Peacocke? You're comfortable here; why not remain so? I don't want to hurt you. I want to help you;—and I can. Three hundred dollars wouldn't be much to you. You were always a fellow as had a ...
— Dr. Wortle's School • Anthony Trollope
... comes to a hundred thousand pounds in our money. That, as we know, is lying safely in the stern, for we looked the day after the wreck. So long as it is there it is safe enough, but the next storm that comes will certainly smash up the wreck altogether, and the boxes may be swept into the deep water between her and the shore. Now at the present moment we may consider that gold to be common property. If a Spanish ship ever comes here she will, of course, capture it; if, ...
— With Cochrane the Dauntless • George Alfred Henty
... bandboxes under my cloak. The Dragon attacks me in the centre, and drives me off the right, where I smash up the bandbox, which sounds like him crunching my bones. Then I roll the thunder, turn my cloak to the blue side, put on this wideawake, and come on again with a bandbox lid and crunch that, and roll more thunder, ...
— A Great Emergency and Other Tales - A Great Emergency; A Very Ill-Tempered Family; Our Field; Madam Liberality • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
... grapes, I fancy, only that's done by foot. I mean they smash up the pulp with a very heavy ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 • Various
... how the deuce did he get landed on this couch with a world of books about him and a thin muslin curtain blowing into the room, and fanning the cheeks of a lovely rose in a long stemmed clear glass vase? Did he try to start and have a smash up? No, he remembered going down the steps with the intention of starting, but stay! Now it was coming to him. He fell off the porch! He must have had a jag on or he never would have fallen. He did things to his ankle ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... and the rest were drowned? I would starve to death or die of thirst. Then the sun went behind some clouds and I felt cold. How many hundreds or thousands of miles was I from any land? What if another storm should come and smash up even this poor raft on ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... protested one of the bystanders, "you'll smash up this club—you'll have the police shutting it up as a gambling-hell. Besides, you're breaking the rules; you'll have ...
— Prince Fortunatus • William Black
... and bars that narrowed the 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 guns and stores and ...
— The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolf • William Wood
... said. "I never thought of that. 'Smash up London and provide work for unemployed mending it.—GRAYSON,'" he ...
— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse
... did not do so, they cannot plead ignorance of his changed opinion, or deny that, at the very moment he became acquainted with the real state of things at Khartoum, he hastened to convey to them his decided conviction that the only way out of the difficulty was to "smash up the Mahdi." ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger
... grandfather was the regular old-fashioned sporting kind of squire you read about in books. He gambled the whole property away. I suppose it used to be a fine place in his day. I've heard he kept eight hunters, and always had the house full of guests while his money lasted. Then there was a grand smash up, and everything had to be sold—house, horses, furniture, and all. He went abroad and died of a broken heart—never smiled again, and all that sort ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... never answer," Tommy grumbled, "for us to make a trip to Alaska without bunting into a glacier ready to smash up things!" ...
— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman
... creature. I could not, indeed, put it before the mistress that Gerasim's courting Tatiana. But, after all, it's true enough; he's a queer sort of husband. But on the other hand, that devil, God forgive me, has only got to find out they're marrying Tatiana to Kapiton, he'll smash up everything in the house, 'pon my soul! There's no reasoning with him; why, he's such a devil, God forgive my sins, there's no getting over him nohow . . . 'pon ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian • Various |
