The pike whistled over his head, barely missing, and he was up, squashing the big stone into the face of the other.
The truck faltered as it hit the nearly finished obstacle, and Gordon felt his stomach squashing down onto the wheel.
It made me feel queer all over," went on the old chap, in great perturbation, and squashing something in the corner of his eye with the end of a thumb as broad as a spatula.
So in squashing Tom's rebellion he is unconsciously squashing the rebellion in his own soul.
They cross the scene and go on out of sight, and the squashing of their horses' hoofs in the snowy mud dies away.
The distant squashing in the mud of a multitude of hoofs and wheels is succeeded by the appearance of outriders and carriages, horses and horsemen, splashed with sample clays of the districts traversed.
