59 collocations for crashes

Next, flashes of lightning sped swiftly along the skies, and peals of crashing thunder appalled the earth and me likewise.

Both masts were down, and, lifted as the bow was, it was easy to perceive the deck was in splinters, where falling spars and topmasts had crashed their way through.

Down went the roley-poley boy, like a dumpling down a cellar-door; crashing his head against the cruel rocks that stood in stony heartedness in his way, and dashing his brains out against their hard sides.

Rebellowing thunders rock the marble towers, And red-tongued lightnings shoot their arrowy showers; 175 Earth yawns!the crashing ruin sinks!o'er

Flaming houses and crashing timbers were filling all hearts with terror, and the shades of evening were falling upon the general havoc and turmoil, when the Europeans reached the native lines and found that the sepoys had gone, no one knew whither.

A man is at work when his wife calls to tell him she's crashed the car.

Round shot and grape, rifle-balls and canister, come crashing down the causeway into the Mexican ranks from their own battery.

Dark tempests fly above from Rimmon's breath, Who hovers o'er them with the gods of death; The wicked seven winds howl wildly round, And crashing cedars falling shake the ground.

The two reeled back and forth, crashing chairs and tables to the floor, and lunged against the bar.

And with that she crashed a final chord, rose from her seat, and crossed the room.

Louder and louder crash the cymbals; louder rises the chant.

Many of them, like Lehr, gave up their livesthough not in vain, nor without having sent down to crashing death, each one, his share of the flyers of the foe.

Henri joined because it was agreeable to the inclination of his own rollicking, blundering, floundering, crashing disposition, and because he would have joined anything that had been joined by the other two.

The perpetual wranglings, ceaseless distractions, irreconcilable contradictions, disquieting doubts, discouraging outlooks, inharmonious and jangling opinions, unaccountable delusions, clashing and crashing dissonances, cruel hatreds, bitter enmities and stormful convulsions, which so largely enter and deface the course of human history, proceed mainly from his influence.

The band crashed out Dixie and a medley of southern melodies.

It was a wicked, vicious blow, with all the propelling force of the body behind it, and Hobart went down stunned, crashing the door tightly shut as he fell.

Still another and another; twigs and broken boughs fly before it and strew the sward; larger branches that have long been dead fall crashing downwards; leaves are forced right through the thorn-thicket, and strike against the face.

Thus it would seem that while organization of labour may become a real remedy for "sweating" in any industry to which it is vigorously applied, it cannot be relied upon ever entirely to crash out the evil.

Down the lowly chapel crashes 'Neath the branches' fall and weight; Winding now, the pointed flashes To the summit climb elate.

An old horse, standing before an inn, broke his halter and crashed over a fence.

And the thunders crash up with a roar upon roar, And the eddying lightnings flash fire in my face, And the whirlwinds are whirling the dust round and round, And the blasts of the winds universal leap free And blow each upon each with a passion of sound, And aether goes mingling in storm with the sea.

He had crashed his fist into the face of a shrimp-seine hauler once, and the fellow's neck had shifted on his spineand once he had maced a woman up-river in a shantyboat drinking boutTedge had got away both times.

There is a wonderful chandelier from the ceiling centre, made of copper and ormolu, burning seventy-two lights, and of such enormous size that one wonders how many floors it would crash through if it were to give way; then I learn that it is supported by concealed cross-beams hidden away under the ceiling.

He played with a master-touch, and the room was filled with rushing notes and crashing harmonies.

We heard his snort as he went crashing up the hillside.

59 collocations for  crashes