"Smash up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sure, Ray? It's so different,—so shattering. It seems to smash up all the past into little bits and begin the world all over again—for you and me. It's such a near thing. I've seen the married people and wondered about it. You might get so weary of always ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... speechless creature. I could not, indeed, put it before the mistress that Gerasim's courting Tatiana. But, after all, it's true enough; he's a queer sort of husband. But on the other hand, that devil, God forgive me, has only got to find out they're marrying Tatiana to Kapiton, he'll smash up everything in the house, 'pon my soul! There's no reasoning with him; why, he's such a devil, God forgive my sins, there's no getting over him no how ... 'pon ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... smash up within a few yards of us. A brilliant young Officer (Captain Collet of the R.F.C.) killed outright and three men ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton |
