But Owen's share in the undertaking miscarried through his own defeat near Carmarthen on the 12th of July, and Percy was crushed at Shrewsbury ten days later.
They would have poured vinegar into my nostrils, overwhelmed and crushed me with bricks, and if I had died under the agony, my body would already he food for the jackals of the burning plains.
Meanwhile, Seso lay flat upon her belly on the table in a pile of crushed fruit.
Stewart’s hot hands drew the covering up between his fingers and crushed it with a sudden strength, born of a terrible agony.
After Trevelyan had come and gone, each day seemed to Cary like the one before; and they all stretched out, crushed and dead and lifeless, as a string of pearls from which the luster has disappeared.
Then a sudden pressure came against his throat and breast as though the strength was being crushed from him.
He could have crushed it, white and radiant as it was, between his hands; he could have kissed and kissed and kissed it!
The self-assurance had gone from the courage, and had been crushed beyond restoration when he had broken the clay; but the courage was there—born afresh—unyielding and enduring and deep as the sea.
Then she crushed them down, impatiently and half timorously.
The result was the discovery of three more beads, one entire bugle and the crushed remains of another, which had apparently been trodden on.
There are also pitchers of various drinks that have rather mysterious ingredients, but are all very much iced and embellished with crushed fruits and mint leaves.
The baby in the first place looks much prettier in a dress that has not been crushed by having a coat put over it and taken off and put on and off again.
I had been too crushed and dazed by the ill news to think before of my imprudence; but now I realized how very unwisely I had acted.
I thought I should be crushed in the narrow space, and the idea of being thus suddenly torn away from my betrothed filled me with terror.
Then a strong, sweet odour of crushed blossoms turned me faint.
He had the mortification to perceive that he had not crushed the rebellion so completely as he had wished--by driving all the malcontents off the face of the earth.
Was he also crushed in spirit, as weary of the world as she; wandering in search of peace?
Anything which might rouse the hapless patriot from the grinding weight which crushed him now, as prone on his face he lay sobbing on a form.
The wretched Doreen was crushed by an overwhelming sense of her own littleness and failure.
Such were the gloomy thoughts which crushed the leader of the patriots.
It tends to choke the soul, to crush it by the weight of worldly things, as Tarpeia was crushed by the Sabine shields.
But none can count the potential reformers, the men of new insight, of individual moral judgment, who have been crushed by the weight of group-opposition.
Gray's nature, Gray's powers of production, would have been far more liable to be crushed into extinction by the consciousness of the existence of a superior artist, fluent and sublime.
This mental consciousness probably kept their passions in order, and crushedall the impulses by which hope or fear is excited.
Any class of wooden moulding wiring, however, is not sufficiently impervious to moisture to render it suitable for use in damp places, and it is liable to be crushed or punctured.
He took the pretty, scented flowers from the box, where loving hands had so gently laid them, and crushed them into a shapeless, dead heap.
I gave her my genius--she has blighted it, she has crushed it.
Nothing was said of the crushed bridal wreath or the torn wedding-dress.
Why did you tell me to say 'yes,' and get my hair rumpled, and my dress all crushed up that way?
And his manly, noble heart must then be crushed and flung away like that ruined rose?
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
Vitriol Bob was now alone, in the gloomy, cheerless place, with the crushed and disfigured corpse of him whom he had literally trampled to death.
Nor less acute was the sorrow of the husband who survived that fair but prematurelycrushed flower of Israel;--for immense was thy love for her, Tom Rain!
Marchioness, inwardly shocked, and with her heart bleeding as she asked the question: for she divined too well to what her husband did allude--and she was almost crushed with a devouring sense of shame.
I enlisted, my lord, in order to obtain an honest livelihood, and to stifle in the bustle of a new state of existence the painful reminiscences of blighted hopes and crushed affections.
But these tidings as to another lover crushedhim altogether.
The curtsey and the bow together were sufficient to havecrushed the heart of any young man who had not been comforted and exalted by such words as Isadore had heard from Lucy's lips not five minutes since.
You find me crushed to the ground," the painter said.
The Chinese hadcrushed the Tungani, and were in possession of the mountain passes.
The Chinese lamented and were crushed by his death.
Such an overwhelming disaster would have crushed any ordinary commander, particularly when coming so soon after such a rude defeat as that at Kintang.
His recovery crushed their ambitious hopes, but might not have prevented a civil war between the factions of the two aspirants, had not Don Juan de Lara and his nephew been suddenly carried off by the prevailing epidemic.
He removed import duties from articles which, so far from stimulating the power of production at home, absolutely crushed that power, by bringing in foreign to supersede British labour.
It is interesting to read of the exploits of a handful of English soldiers on the very ground where, four hundred and forty-six years later, an army of that nation crushed the hosts of France.
Then Balin's horse, wearied to death, rolled back over his rider and crushed him inward and both men fell and swooned away.
But he was too manly to kill anyone in sleep, so he just laid his sword across their throats and passed out to his horse, crushed his saddle with his thighs, clenched his hands together and groaned.
The young man pretended to laugh, but he really looked annoyed, as he crushedhis scorned money back into his pocket, and took up the reins.
Had this corps been crushed while thus isolated, as it ought, Lee's invasion must have ended then and there.
If the Confederates could not be crushed when everything conspired against them, and in favor of the Union army, when would they be?
The old Germans must have possessed this stalwart force, who, with their naked arms, overthrew and crushed the mail-clad Romans.
It shall live within my own bosom only, within myself, within my crushed and shattered heart.
They were hurled, against each other, turned over, crushed into fragments, brought together again, and floated on.
She evidently desired to let Herr Sonnenkamp know that a man of Eric's rank and position was not to be crushed on account of a trifling act of neglect.
Be firm, do not suffer yourself to be cleft in twain and crushed to atoms through this mistake.
Out from her heart, crushed and trampled under foot, there must have come a shriek of agony.
Was it for this that she had so long crushed every impulse of her heart?
He closed his eyes, opened them again, and lay there paralyzed as in an awful void, everything crushed and shattered within him.
It was a strange creaking and clattering, as the wagon swayed upon its axle, and the wheels grated upon and crushed the stones.
You have crushed my remaining hope of emancipation," he exclaimed bitterly.
Luckily for me and the driver, we were flung right over the smash into the gutter, for the big, heavy van ran into the fallen hansom, crushed it like a matchbox, and killed the horse.
For it is war again, war to the death between the tribes, until, two centuries later, both shall alike be crushed by the white man.
He struggled with disease; he crushed down his sufferings; he fought death with the same silent, indomitable tenacity with which he had overthrown the obstacles of life.
Swift and merciless had the vengeance of Multnomah fallen, and the insurrection had been crushed at a blow.
