The Free Dictionary. He was as thick as my leg, and looked as if millstones couldn't crush the disgusting vitality out of him. When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it. It falls by no rule at all; sometimes it leaps, sometimes it tumbles; there it skips; here it shoots; in one place 'tis white as snow, and in another 'tis green as grass; hereabouts, it pitches into deep hollows, that rumble and crush the 'arth; and thereaways, it ripples and sings like a brook, fashioning whirlpools and gullies in the old stone, as if 'twas no harder than trodden clay. Yet the laughter of her sister in advance with the Kearney brothers seemed to make the reserve with which she tried to crush further familiarity only ridiculous. What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself - -boots in hand, and hat on - -under the bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots. Crush (krŭsh) v. crushed, crush·ing, crush·es v.tr. 1. a. To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure: The falling rock crushed the car. b. THE 3638323 TO 1605548 A 1450464 OF 14434154 Dimanche 13 déc 2015.
When two large, loaded Indiamen chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the sailors do? Dover line twelve o'clock train - - that's it," and without waiting for another word Jerry wheeled me round to make room for other cabs that were dashing up at the last minute, and drew up on one side till the crush was past. We don't make them,- -we don't consent to them,- -we have nothing to do with them; all they do for us is to crush us, and keep us down. Whole ages of abuse and oppression cannot crush the manhood clear out of him. He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head - - three verses - - kind of sweet and saddish - - the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart" - - and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it. Drag him down, and crush him to atoms, that the place which knows him may know him no more.
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