Roger gazed in horror, expecting, as he looked, the lean body to crumble into dust before him.
Where marble colonnades now towering stand, Pillars of smoke through crackling flames shall whirl; Then shall the Capitol crumblefrom its heights, And palaces and temples sink to ruin!
Silver indeed is a metal of worth, 'Twill never crumble like autumn hay.
They stand solitary and unsupported, and are always ready to crumbleinto ruin.
When a box containing lime cylinders has been opened, it is best to transfer the cylinders to a wide-mouth stoppered bottle, and keep the same in a dry place, as moisture causes the lime to crumble to dust.
He would have liked to make the pillory crumble into ruins, and if the lightning of his eye could have dealt death, the gypsy would have been reduced to powder before she reached the platform.
Esmeralda began to crumble some bread, which Djali ate gracefully from the hollow of her hand.
With what bitterness did he behold his whole erection of glory and of poetry crumble away bit by bit!
You will not crumble so easily, will you, my good Bastille?
The empire of Alexander did not crumblemore disastrously to pieces after the death of the Macedonian prince than did the empire of the Moguls fall to pieces after the death of Aurungzebe.
The whole alliance was founded on unstable and unwholesome principles; it was sure to crumble and collapse sooner or later.
A strange feature in regard to these pins is that although bright and clean, they crumble and break at almost the slightest touch.
A fever was consuming him; in a few hours he had seen all his dreams crumble away.
The soil is massive and does not crumble like ours and seek the angle of repose; it gives way in masses like a brick wall.
In the climate of the Catskills the rock-masses of the Colorado would crumble much more rapidly than they do here.
They were sincerely convinced that the British Empire would crumble to pieces the moment its ligaments of red tape were in the slightest degree relaxed.
The fact is that three-fourths of the English language would crumble away before a purist analysis, and we should be left without words to express the commonest and most necessary ideas.
I do not mean that it will crumble to-morrow, or the day after, but we should not think it habitable now, even while we should admit that nothing could be more delightful to look at.
Gardens would become wildernesses, terraces and fountains crumble and be overgrown, walls that were to-day leaning would fall with time.
Walls and fences and greenhouses and outbuildings must not be allowed to crumble away.
Those which are strong and do not crumble by exposure are useful for building.
Rocks of volcanic origin defy the hammer under which conglomerates crumble away; and when these last are hurled against granite or flint, they splinter at once.
Travis touched the edge of that box gingerly, half expecting it to crumble into nothingness.
This time they were able to witness disintegration in progress, the crumble of the stone as if its substance was no more than sand lapped by river water.
For a moment Lady Tamworth's chivalric edifice showed cracks and rents; it threatened to crumble like a house of cards; but only for a moment.
A fear, indeed, lest the one single faith he felt as real should crumble to ashes made his resolve almost an instinct of self-preservation.
We may crumble and fall but what we stand for will neither crumble nor fall.
It is a great proof of shyness,' he said, 'to crumble your bread at dinner.
The adobe bricks of which the k'ang is composed crumble if an uneven pressure is made upon them, so that one often finds the k'angs in an inn full of pitfalls.
For a moment the clear song of the water sounded in Pierre's ears like a long-drawn sob, and all seemed to crumble in the terrible shadow which had fallen from the invisible.
Rome had become depopulated; men ceased to repair the ruins left by fire and sword; the edifices which by their very immensity had become useless were utterly neglected, allowed to crumble and fall.
Now, however, a few hours would determine whether all Clay's hopes must crumble into dust.
Reeling before them, with lee deck in the water as she bore away, she opened up the sound, and presently her crew watched the rollers crumble on a boulder-sprinkled point.
Attempts of this kind engender abuses so shocking, that communist establishments are condemned to crumble away in a very short time,[8.
From the desert he was going to lead them to the Mount of Olives, that they might thence behold the walls of Jerusalem crumble at his command.
She looked about her with the wish that the earth might crumble into pieces.
That one truth, Paul felt on Mars Hill, was sure enough to make all the temples and statues by which he was surrounded crumble into nothingness.
Yes; let the universe crumble around me, its wreck shall carry me away still resolute.
I saw our whole edifice crumble to the ground; another hour, and the conspiracy would vanish away, and I should lose you forever.
If Richelieu triumph, the ancient bases of the monarchy will crumble with us.
A tender variety that needs winter protection, good culture, and vigorous pruning; otherwise, the berries are imperfect and crumble badly in picking.
