1 At last I come behind him and hit him on the cheek to turn him round and get a smashing one at him, when I was seen and seized.
2 Levin took the fragment in his hands and began smashing it up, breaking bits off the stick, not knowing how to begin.
3 The Confederacy had scored a smashing victory, at Fredericksburg and the Yankee dead and wounded were counted in the thousands.
4 A special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured.
5 The only thing not quite agreeable about him was a way he had of constantly raising his hand with care and deliberation to catch the flies on his face, sometimes succeeding in smashing them.
6 Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.
7 The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer's hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood.
8 The glass smashed into a thousand pieces and the fruit rolled about into every corner of the room.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 9 It had been smashed to atoms where it stood.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 10 I fancied at first that it was paraffin wax, and smashed the glass accordingly.
11 I took the axe and smashed in the door.
12 The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.
13 It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar.
14 I wish I hadn't smashed my coral bracelet, for you might have had it, said Jo, who loved to give and lend, but whose possessions were usually too dilapidated to be of much use.
15 The next minute she lay smashed on the pavement.