Once more Ganns struck before I expected him to do so and I was, too late, confronted with the shattering truth.
The facts are familiar, but not the tremendous and shattering emotions I endured on being branded a coward and traitor to my country by these three patriotic idiots.
There is about Yuba Bill this air of a pugnacious calm, a stepping back to get his distance for a shattering blow, which is like that of Dr.
Three, four silence-shattering bursts leaped out from the gun's muzzle, and a bit of the jungle growth in the line of fire promptly looked as if it had been whizzed through a fine meat grinder.
Hardly had his P-Forty started to prop-scream for the sky before the whole of Burma below him exploded in a world-shattering thunder of sound.
This is why, I believe, there is a possibility for tension between ones self and his religious stance upon facing unpleasant or shattering news.
Bedside is a night stand supporting a dial-less telephone with a nerve-shattering ring.
The various additions to blasting gelatine generally have the effect of lowering the strength by reducing the amount of nitro-glycerine, but this is sometimes done in order to change a shattering agent into a propulsive force.
It is intermediate in its shattering properties between nitro-glycerine and fulminate of mercury.
When tested against explosive gelatine, it did very good work in shattering iron plates.
In the high explosives the chemical transformation is very rapid, hence they exert a crushing of shattering effect.
The shattering rattle of the chains of a steam crane, when the monster iron-arm swung round seeking or depositing its burden and the crank ran out in harsh anger, as it seemed, and defiance.
Here, there and yonder, terrific explosions were shattering the echoes, as the Air Trust batteries swept the fog with their aeroplane-destroying missiles.
Some of the giants had been only partially destroyed, the vibratory current having grazed them, in such a manner that the shattering undulations had not acted upon the entire body.
There was danger, however, of arousing attention by shattering holes through the tree tops.
Disaster after disaster marked their perilous track; gale after gale swept them hither and thither, tossing them on sandbanks or shattering them against granite cliffs.
And as Leslie spoke he pulled the trigger of his revolver, and sent a bullet through the man's left arm, shattering the bone above the elbow.
There was a shattering crash, an enormous spurt of flame, a horrid "flurry" on the water; and ship and crew went down.
Their skilful manoeuvres andshattering broadsides deserved to win; and the U.
Whenever any part of the enemy's line showed up through the thickening mist the British guns turned on it with shattering salvoes.
Suddenly, like a volcano, the Good Hope was rent by a shattering explosion.
The leader was shouting orders, his harsh voice resounded in shattering echoes throughout the stone vault, and the horde of blacks surged forward at his command.
Shattering the bronze helmet, the American's bullet struck the Atlantean squarely between the eyes, but nevertheless the stricken officer's grenade rolled forward and burst among the hindermost of Hero Giles' followers.
A great jargon in the tone of ecstasy broke suddenly on the air upon this new entrance, shattering what little composure Nehemiah had been able to muster; a wide-mouthed exaggeration of welcome in superlative phrases and ready chorus.
She stared for a moment as if paralyzed; her spectacles fell to the floor from her nerveless hand, shattering the lenses on the hearth.
It is written that a man must be defeated in order to succeed; and in that moment Desmond bit the dust of the heart's most poignant tragedy and defeat--the shattering of faith in one who is very near to us.
Not until night condemned her to solitude and thought did Honor frankly confront the calamity that had come upon her with the force of a blow, cutting her life in two, shattering her pride, her joy, her inherent hopefulness of heart.
That human nature in its fundaments of thought and feeling, its primary needs, desires and emotions, will not be appreciably changed even by this shattering experience of war must be conceded.
A small beetle, its wings all outspread, struck the surface violently close by, shattering the mirror for a second, then starting a series of tiny ripples.
What an immense, shattering blow that mighty fist could give!
In the dead of night they pass a young couple in a light gig, and the heavy mail-coach just escapesshattering the light gig and perhaps killing the young occupants.
With it came the shattering peal of opposing infantry.
We noticed, however, when we got into the Transvaal that the Transvaalers took pity on their own portion of the line, and studiously refrained from shattering it.
Even as he spoke some current of air stirred the surface of the sea below them, shattering the reflections.
As they got higher she could see over the sand-dunes the beach itself; no ramparts and towers of surf or ruins of shattered billows fringed it now; a child could have played on that zone of shattering and resistless forces.
The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel.
She had conquered her shattering fears, and her face showed the sweetness of her new self confidence.
The mare mule was not less cunning and scheming than her teammate, but the horse had a pounding, hard gait that was difficult for a rider going only a short way and spine-shattering for a long ride.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
The very tread of men As great as those is shattering to the frame Of such a little house.
Exasperating as Bill's wooden failure to play the scene in the spirit in which her imagination had conceived it was to Claire, several excuses may be offered for him: He had opened the evening with a shattering blow at his faith in woman.
Now she was inconsistent enough to boil with rage at the shattering blow which had befallen him.
Percy vanished into the dining-room with a shattering squeal of pleasure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shattering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
