Well, every body expected somebody would be squashed to death, and so ladies went, for they always go to executions.
We must have looked odd going along; I squashed in beside her with a poodle and Fanny at my feet, and poor Mr. Harrington clinging to one side like grim death, so as to try and get the balance more level.
Jean and the old Baron went "smoking," and we eight squashed into the same carriage, so as not to be separated.
Lord Doraine sat between me and Octavia, and I suppose he was afraid of crushing her dress, for he positively squashed me, he sat so close.
She kept giggling all the way home, and the Vicomte looked so squashed and uncomfortable.
He whirled around, squashed a dozen tiny creeping things, leaped to a disk that was now not more than a few inches broad.
The thing tried to whirl aside, but Phobar's shoesquashed thickly through, and in a disorder of quivering pieces the metal creature fell, and subsided.
Then the muskrat gnawed open the bag, and Alice came out, her feathers all ruffled up, but she was not much hurt; only the yeast cake was all squashed out of shape, like a piece of putty.
Alice, from inside the bag, where she was trembling so that she squashed the yeast cake all out, as flat as a pancake on a cold winter morning, when you have brown sausage gravy and maple syrup to pour on it.
Old Brother Jerome's face is squashed flat like a prize-fighter's, but I bet he's never had the gloves on in his life.
Nellie steped on my best hen whitch was scraching behine her in the stall and squashed her almost as flat as a doremat.
In order to conserve the happiness of the world every inventor should besquashed in the egg, more particularly those having anything to do with wheels, cogs or levers.
Then, resolutely she squashed her thrills; she must remember that this meeting was for a Christian cause.
But father ruthlessly squashed her hopes with two fell sentences and one terrifying oath.
It is then taken to another apartment, and placed in duly prepared compartments under a strong screw-press, by which operation it is transformed from a loose cylinder to a well squashed parallelogram.
Only conceive the horror of being squashed into such a neighbour for twenty-one long hours, and over a road that necessarily kept jerking the unwashed and polecatty head into your face ten times in a minute!
Luckily there were no blueberries, for whenever we threw ourselves flat we should have squashed more on our clothes than we should have had time to eat.
For forty-five minutes we jolted and squashed over bad roads, and finally bowled along over macadam.
Gedge could not have invented that abominable touch of the squashed hat.
And as for talking, they'd just as soon expect speech from a jellyfish squashedby a steam-roller.
Presently he comes, walking fast, his hat still squashed in all over his ears.
All the shuddering pictures of him rose up before me, the last, that of him standing by the lock gates and suddenly running like a frightened rabbit, with his jaunty soft felt hat squashed shapelessly over his ears.
In the great round central "Place" confusion was worse, animals, carts, and refugee bivouacks being all squashed together on the market place.
She squashed past him; there was a knob at the back of the gun on which she pressed her thumbs, and she immediately wanted another pair with which to stop her ears.
John asserted that the rest and change of scene had done him a world of good and that he was able to steer; but the others squashed his proposals.
You're here rottin' in your cabins, the manhoodsquashed out of you by the yellow-legs.
One giant Austrian had spread himself across the top of a roof near which I passed, with two sandbags to protect his head, and looked in his blue-black sailors clothes like an enormous fly squashed flat up there by the anger of the gods.
Betty jumped up, announcing emphatically: "You may count me out on that; no more squashed lemons for little Betty.
Is it not likely that many a better writer than I am is squashed through want of money?
How completely they must have been squashed unless I had had a little money of my own.
Farewells are exchanged, light laughter, and small cries, while the waiters denude the last tables, and the great stall of the fragolata is covered with squashed strawberries and withered leaves.
A sense of fatality seemed to weigh on the woman’s life, which oppressed and squashed her.
And, in supposin' that the other kind could be squashed in, like the hopera kind, was just where I had made my error.
You ought to havesquashed them for yourselves, as the other gents done.
I say it must be squashedvery tight, and she says it is.
But the remainder of the truth, I suggest, was that the Plot of Plots Garnet had learned, a few days after the aforesaid Michaelmas, was being assuredly squashed by Edward Oldcorne.
And this once more proves that he knew the Plot would be squashed and finally swept away.
I wish some one had stepped on him and squashed him first.
This flattering description they had pinned to Mellor's back, with an intimation that he was to crawl back to his brother Beetles as quickly as possible or he would be "squashed before he could get to his hole again.
As a matter of fact, it was he who squashed my idea of making money by going in for big lotteries.
But Nell squashed her with a guiltily unkind, "What's a jogglefry book?
They stumbled to their feet and stood and surveyed the row of dilapidated candles--bent double, lying full length on the ground, squashed flat, and one only still alight.
The rest all squashed into a big wagon, and sat on the hay.
