Some partial encounters seem to have taken place; but the consul could not prevent Hannibal's junction with his Bruttian levies, nor could Hannibal gain an opportunity of surprising and crushing the consul.
Crushing defeat of the Romans by Hannibal at Cannae.
After a long struggle, it is said that they first gave way at the point where Pyrrhus was urging on his soldiers in person, though the defeat was chiefly due to the weight and crushing charge of the elephants.
Sulla becomes dictator at Rome, after crushing the Marian party; he inflicts a bloody vengeance on his enemies.
Not content with crushing her, he took care that she never should revive; for he founded Alexandria as her substitute, and changed forever the track of the commerce of the world.
Lysias, the general of Antiochus, at Bethzur, where a large Syrian force gathered in the expectation of crushing the patriotic army of Judas.
It is there said that the king of Assyria, aftercrushing the revolt of Manasseh, carried him away captive to Babylon.
All the strength of Assyria was spent incrushing it; and Egypt, which had revolted through the help of Gyges of Lydia, was never reconquered.
His weakness and the inner erosion produced by the crushing struggle of two years showed themselves suddenly.
And now this inhuman old man, who was the master here, though he did not know how to pick up a hoe and had never bent his back in toil in his whole life, was putting the screws on him and crushing him with all his "reminders.
Russians inflict crushingdefeat on Austrians on Galician frontier; Germans announce defeat of three Russian army corps near Allenstein.
The butt of that rifle was beaten down, crushing in her baby's chest.
An irresistible--a crushing sense of the littleness and brief life of our most ardent and sagacious achievements seems to me to float like a voice over the place!
The problems of life offered themselves to my mother and sisters with a terrible and crushing reality.
He had, moreover, in crushingthe Phocians, destroyed a formidable power of resistance to his plans.
He had borne thiscrushing public rebuke without change of countenance.
Under the crushing weight of his suffering, his senses left him, and he found such peace as to-day is won by those who are about to pass beneath the surgeon's knife; the peace that but too often wakes to a livelier agony.
For the love of Heaven, Foy," interrupted Adrian, "stop crushing my fingers and shaking me as though I were a rat.
For some time his course was unimpeded, till, at length, a vast chasm yawned before him: the whole wall had fallen down, crushing all beneath it.
I said, and went on dressing a very serious injury he had received to one hand, caused by his crushing it between a large piece of coal and the edge of the furnace door.
With Germany freed from the monster of blood and iron that was crushing out her soul, with Russia awakened to life, we would build the United States of Europe.
The daily struggle for bare existence, the ever-shadowing menace of unemployment, of illness, leaving them helpless amid the grinding forces crushing them down on every side.
But it was not the crushing of Transvaal independence in which the army was employed that formed the only argument against enlisting.
The processes are not unlike the mechanical concentration of ores by crushing and water sorting.
The crushing strength of a rock has an obvious relation to its structural uses.
Paul had been working at the tannery assisting a negro crushing bark for the vats, and was starting home to get his dinner when he saw her.
An indescribable pain, which was at once physical and mental, had his whole young being in a crushing grasp.
When she heard the crushing of the sand by Sulpice's footsteps as he approached her with timid haste, she turned abruptly.
Rosas, terribly, while Marianne, terrified, felt stifled under the crushing weight of that name: Duchesse de Rosas!
And with it all, a hatred of genuine talent, bitter selfishness and the crushing narrowness of ideas!
He heard from the lips of a keeper who had the appearance of a very honest man, the information, crushing as a verdict: "You are in close confinement, as it is called!
If the footing of a foundation is made as it should be, the upper part may be much thinner, since there is no danger of crushing it by any probable weight of building.
Above the footing the imperfect bearings of the larger stones are of less consequence, since there is little danger of their crushing one another.
It put it in their power to dispense with the necessity of pursuing and crushing their scattered adversaries; and the French saw a revolution effected in their system, and that by military force, in which not a drop of blood was spilt.
But the decisive battles of Rivoli and La Favorita having ruined these armies, Napoleon was at leisure to execute his purpose of crushing the power, such as it was, of the Holy See.
As for that other very generous offer--we had no time to give it a thought, as it came to us simultaneously with the crushing news from France.
She also saw that nothing would do her good save an escape from the crushing daily oppression of Philip's coldness and stiff courtesy.
Napoleon, conscious that his brother was not by nature a warrior, and also wishing to save him from the unpopularity of military acts in crushing sedition, left him as much as possible to the administration of civil affairs in Madrid.
That prince had rendered to that beautiful country services which, long after his departure, conferred blessings upon the realm, which had been surrendered until then to the sad regime of a feudalism crushing to the people.
The utter crushing of Prussia on the fields of Jena and Auerstadt literally frightened Spain out of her wits.
He went to the bare narrow little room he had occupied ever since his wife died; and, taking off his boots, walked up and down, with a feeling of almost crushing loneliness.
She felt not the faintest compunction for the recklessness of her love--it was her only comfort against the crushing loneliness of the night.
That was gone now as if it had never been; and she had no defence, nothing between her and this crushing humiliation and chagrin.
She pulled the flower from his buttonhole and, crushing it in her hand, held her face up.
