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Crushed in sentence

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Falling into a chair opposite the bed, which he gazed at fixedly, he remained some minutes as though crushed.
She had come in when the door was ajar at the moment of the fray, without any one noticing her; and in her endless narrative the single stone with which Jeanlin had broken one window-pane became a regular cannonade which had crushed through the walls.
They showed each other the bleeding fragment as an evil beast from which each of them had suffered, and which they had at last crushed, and saw before them there, inert, in their power.
Beaten and deceived at every hour, with shoulders bent from morning to night over a ledger, perhaps she was laughing, while the band of women rushed along with that evil beast, that crushed beast, at the end of the stick.
The sentinel was about to be relieved, and he went away, running off to bury himself at Réquillart, his heart crushed once more by the certainty of defeat; while the little scamp who ran beside him was accusing that dirty beast of a trooper of having called out the guard to fire at them.
The closed horizon would not open, and the impossible ideal was turning to poison in the depths of this skull which had been crushed by grief.
A chair was overthrown; their heavy boots crushed the white sand scattered on the floor.
She was crushed, and never stirred again.
Then they put an end to the military occupation of the pits, which were no longer threatened by the crushed strikers.
Silence crushed the low houses.
They crushed madly against each other in order to be taken up at once.
At the surface, the last buildings were tipped over and crushed.
And then a terrible thing was seen; the engine, dislocated from its massive foundation, with broken limbs was struggling against death; it moved, it straightened its crank, its giant's knee, as though to rise; but, crushed and swallowed up, it was dying.
It was thought that it would be crushed to fragments and fly to powder, when suddenly it sank in one block, drunk down by the earth, melted like a colossal candle; and nothing was left, not even the point of the lightning conductor.
The father and mother were crushed, and did not reply.
And they cried out when they saw a gigantic whitish mass coming out of the shadow and trying to rejoin them between the narrow timbering in which it was being crushed.
If it did not stop they would then die like the old horse, crushed against the roof, and their chests filled by the flood.
At the end of the galleries the air, driven back, pressed together and crushed, exploding terribly amid split rocks and overthrown soil.
At first they wished to pull the cable so as to fix one of the carts at the bottom, for if the other should come down during their ascent, they would be crushed.
He fell, his face crushed, his skull broken.
He continually saw it there, swollen, greenish, with the red moustache and the crushed face.
The ringing in her ears had become the murmur of flowing water, the song of birds; she smelled the strong odour of crushed grass, and could see clearly great yellow patches floating before her eyes, so large that she thought she was out of doors, near the canal, in the meadows on a fine summer day.
Several corpses had already been brought up, and placed in a row on the ground: Chaval, who was thought to have been crushed beneath a landslip.
a trammer, and two hewers, also crushed, with brainless skulls and bellies swollen with water.
Work was going on everywhere; he seemed to be able to catch the blows of the pick at the bottom of the earth, striking now from one end of the plain to the other, one blow, and another blow, and yet more blows, beneath the fields and roads and villages which were laughing in the light, all the obscure labour of the underground prison, so crushed by the enormous mass of the rocks that one had to know it was underneath there to distinguish its great painful sigh.
And if you aren't crushed by so much pressure, it's because the air penetrates the interior of your body with equal pressure.
Carried away by its momentum, the ship sometimes mounted on top of these tracts of ice and crushed them with its weight, or at other times, when cooped up beneath the ice fields, it split them with simple pitching movements, creating wide punctures.
Over an extensive area, the soil consisted of that igneous gravel called "tuff," reddish in color as if made from crushed bricks.
We could have been crushed between these masses of ice, or at least imprisoned between them.
Therefore, let's concentrate on our chances of being crushed or asphyxiated."
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