Train-wrecking continued, and of necessity the running of night trains had to be suspended.
Early in April the trial of Kruitzinger was concluded, and the prisoner was acquitted of the charges of murder or train-wrecking that were brought against him.
Boer husbands and fathers from wrecking the train and destroying the food.
Another case of train-wrecking on the Pretoria-Pietersburg railway.
The wrecking trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad are slowly making their way east to the unfortunate city.
With redoubled force it turned once more to the south and then it went half a mile further, toppling over the houses, wrecking some and adding some to those which it had brought down from other places.
What did he have to gain by wrecking Ben Vickers' boiler?
I'm t-told he's wanted for b-boiler-wrecking and such.
When the wreckingoperations were quite completed another patrol came by.
A most ungodly clank and clatter resulted, wrecking the stillness of the night.
On his return from Flanders in 1340 he became involved in an angry controversy with his ministers, whom he accused, quite unjustly, of wasting his revenue and wrecking his campaign thereby.
It was rocky sending, but after no end of pounding, I got him and gave orders for the wrecking gang, and for one more of Neighbor's rapidly decreasing supply of locomotives.
The strikers were pounding our men, wrecking our trains, and giving us the worst of it generally; that is, when we couldn't give it to them.
The wrecking vessel that goes down to salve her will have steel plates, tools and mechanics aboard, and new plates can be put in temporarily.
The course of safety now was not less intricate; but, in spite of appearances, there was no longer the same risk of incalculable irregular forces wrecking the ship.
Wolsey worked for a master, who was quite capable of wrecking the minister’s schemes for a purely personal end.
But this wholesale wrecking of the social structure would be ruinous for a girl like Palla.
The brakeman will go as fast as he can, but it will take some time to get the wrecking crew here with a new engine, and then it will take some time to get all the cars back on the track.
Let her go, Bill," called the foreman to the engineer of the wrecking crew.
As soon as I learned what a scoundrel Blowitz was, and of the wrecking of the brig, or, at least, the reported wrecking of it, I came here for further news.
Breakfast was served, and there was nothing to do but to wait for the arrival of the wrecking crew.
After breaking all the windows they entered the house and damaged and destroyed his furniture, completely wrecking this beautiful mansion.
Many of the weapons used in wrecking the furniture lay about; among these were the large hammer, and an iron wedge used for splitting wood.
Have sent Doubleday and McGraw to Medicine Bend in my car and am starting with wrecking crew for the Hill.
They had just got the wrecking train made up, and this man, running forward after setting a switch, had flipped the tender of the backing engine and slipped from the footboard.
Tell Bill Dancing to cut in thewrecking instrument and put an operator over there for Glover's orders," directed Blood, turning to Smith Young.
If Major Guilford is wrecking the railroad, why is he spending so much money on improvements?
On the other hand, it is doubtless a condition of the deal that the road shall be turned over whole as to its property values--there is to be no wrecking in the general acceptance of the word.
He had time to yell at his fireman, to fling himself upon the throttle-bar and to set the airbrake before he began to turn Irish handsprings down the embankment; but the wrecking crew camped two whole days at Delhi gathering up the debris.
After awhile a wrecking train came and then a lot of us walked to a village about a mile and a half away and had breakfast and went on to Cincinnati about noon.
I've never seen that boy from the moment the wrecking train reached the scene of the wreck until tonight, and so I've never spoken to him again.
Well, the wrecking train and a hospital train came along about then and I lost sight of that chap, and I didn't see him again.
Was the man going to put up the bluff that he had been robbed, and was therefore wrecking his own safe?
And in the space of one short moment, wrecking all that the toil and agony of years was to have stood for, he had told Millman what Mill-man wanted to know!
No particular incident occurred; and having fine weather, we escaped wrecking or putting back.
Wrecking the ship would serve a double purpose: it would remove the possibility of further spying on Brad and it would warn Tyler that the smugglers meant business.
Wrecking the trawler had shown him they were capable of carrying out any threat.
Is it true Captain Tyler stands to lose his master's license and may be even charged with deliberately wrecking the ship?
The more Rick thought about it, the more he was convinced that his theory of the wrecking of the trawler would hold water.
After the departure of the wrecking train the express pulls out.
A freight was off the track east of Mathews and the wrecking crew was at work," Martha goes on to explain.
Is there a man among you who is living on the distress of his fellows, brought about by his wrecking the bank in which they have hoarded their savings?
It is the radical element that has conceived the idea of wrecking the train.
If they place a pile of rocks on the track, the train may reach that point before the car of destruction, and in this event the obstruction will cause the wrecking of the train.
His bank wrecking scheme was successfully carried out.
I returned to the wrecking operations at the Tortugas doubtful of immediate protection.
Nothing could enable them to avoid the wrecking of the country save the immeasurable impossibility of a common accord for the harmonising of their rival claims.
Was it enthusiasm for the benefits advancing civilisation was bestowing upon them that led the Luddites in their machine-wrecking riots?
They sought, in a blind and blundering fashion, to perform the impossible feat of wrecking at a blow the entire militant movement.
I did one more pass, wrecking anything that looked like it might be a prototype for the next generation or notes that would help them reconstruct the units I'd smashed.
Humming the Small World theme, I produced a short wrecking bar from my cowl's tabbed pocket and set to work.
Debra held my wrecking bar like a weapon, and she brandished it at me.
Besides, I want your advice about this wrecking business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrecking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
