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For though he said his mind would be easy, the means which he had taken to secure quiet did not seem to have succeeded as yet, and the events of the past two days had visibly shattered him.
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Hart, who cannot describe the prowler except as a small man probably having a full beard, inclines to the view that all three of the digging incidents have a common source; but police from the Second Station think otherwise on account of the savage nature of teh second incident, where an ancient coffin was removed and its headstone violently shattered.
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Another roseate dream of childhood had been ruthlessly shattered, and he hated himself for having witlessly engendered it in her mind, since it could only be born to die unrealized.
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My paradise was rudely shattered by the sound of a well known, and heartily disliked, voice in the hall.
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Nella looked at his open, friendly face, partly shattered with scars, and was stricken with guilt.
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It shattered quite nicely.
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The head of the deceased, when seen by witness, was entirely separated from the body, and was also greatly shattered.
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But the clean lines of “One Policy, One System, Universal Service” have been shattered, apparently forever.
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In the fore part of the brig, on both sides of the hull, seven or eight feet before the beginning of the stem, the sides were fearfully shattered for at least twenty feet.
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The frame-work of our stern was shattered excessively, and, in almost every respect, we had received considerable injury; but to our extreme Joy we found the pumps unchoked, and that we had made no great shifting of our ballast.
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Never before or since had he seen such instruments or suggestions of instruments as here loomed up on every hand through the burying dust and cobwebs of a century and a half, in many cases evidently shattered as if by the ancient raiders.
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He recognized this with a pang; he had built castles in the air about her, which, like most such edifices, are easily shattered.
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No matter how badly a leg or an arm may be shattered, a quick, clean operation may cause the parts to grow together again, stronger than they were before.
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And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.
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We shall have to tell of a great process of mental growth in Europe, of enlarged horizons and accumulating power, but it was a process that went on independently of, and in spite of, the political forms of the time, until at last it shattered those forms altogether.