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He felt a tidal wave of truth crushing him below its cruel weight, as the graveness of what he had done hit him.
They ensured the crushing of a local rebellion slid gradually into genocide.
A bakery worker died instantly when a large industrial trolley filled with burger buns came off the tailboard of a truck, crushing him.
He may have seen this water driven tilt hammer used for crushing metal ore in Yorkshire.
After I stuffed that in, my bag was full and hard to zip up without knowing I was crushing some of the crunchy snacks.
The work includes blasting and crushing rock from a quarry and laying the road metal produced on the track and leveling the surface.
In fact, many men have experienced the crushing setback of reverse discrimination when seeking jobs.
After their crushing victory over Limerick, Tipperary were expected to provide Kerry with a severe test.
Heavy trees fell, damaging homes and in three cases crushing Tampa police cars.
It took a crushing 6-0 victory on the last day of the Group 3 campaign to clinch their berth at the finals.
The Allies faced the dual challenges of crushing the Axis militarily and of considering how best to govern the postwar world.
But Mr Hopwood, a former boilermaker, said the theft of his new silver Peugeot 206 was a crushing blow.
Some fans have spoken in rather distressing language about incidents of crushing that conjured up, in their own minds, memories of Hillsborough.
Then I want to pulverize those rocks by crushing each against the other, and that takes every last ounce of power and strength in my soul.
Lee said they were forced to lift a heavy log until it fell, crushing them.
Mental, crushing, and amazing all in equal doses, the mix is nothing short of perfect.
Shoba's walk-through feels like a crushing defeat, but A.G.'s is a slam dunk.
It thus seems that this is not an apparatus for crushing the food, but for expressing the liquid from the food triturated by the jaws.
In general, all garden shredders have a high watt motor and come with silent crushing system.
A ray eats its prey by grabbing the mollusk in its mouth and crushing the shell with its jaws.
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He had eased his uncle's labours by crushing the wasp, and averted his aunt's displeasure by obliterating the blowfly.
The accusing revelation that had come from Crane in the afternoon had been a crushing blow.
The mother's manner was a crushing rebuke to the young man for his audacity.
With a cry the girl sprang back, crushing the birchbark case with its red flower into shapeless ruin.
The clever application of the Chaucerian verse to his own case was crushing.
Peter slammed its door to, crushing them so that he loosed his grip, with a howl.
Yet she did not know that she was crushing out the germ which might have grown in his heart.
He had leaned back in the chair and gathered his hat close to his breast, crushing it.
And he is quite capable of crushing his heart, just as one might crush a flea.
The gneisses appear to be due in many cases to the crushing and shearing of deep-seated igneous rocks, such as granite and gabbro.
He dived head foremost into a rectangular wooden trough that was used for the disposal of the gangue from a crushing mill above.
Never knew there was such a place,' gillingham put in with crushing emphasis.
Had grouchy done so, Waterloo would not have been the crushing defeat it was for Napoleon.
In quarrying and crushing New Jersey trap rock with gyratory crushers the following was the cost of producing 200 cu.
Used for crushing the haoma, an intoxicating plant, whose juice is used by the faithful.
It haunted him every moment, and added to the weight of sorrow which seemed crushing him.
Is the Sisyphean stone of Home Rule, so laboriously rolled uphill, to again roll down, crushing in its fall the faithful rollers?
Then he sat down in the middle, crushing the slicker deep into the spring bloom.
Where was the sonority in the metallic, crushing blows you dealt in the Liszt Ballade?
In December, 1885, the first stamp mill was erected for the purpose of crushing the gneiss rock in which the gold lay hidden.
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