The brute collapsed, on its face, and kicked, slightly.

A little to my left, the side of the Pit appeared to have collapsed altogether, forming a deep V-shaped cleft in the face of the rocky cliff.

Nor was this fancy, on my part; for, all at once, the bookshelf, along the sidewall, collapsed, with a cracking and rending of rotten wood, precipitating its contents upon the floor, and filling the room with a smother of dusty atoms.

Slowly, I began to grow bewildered, as the thought came to me that it lay just about where I must have fallen when the chair collapsed.

Now, I saw that the elongated mound had sunk, collapsed, level with the rest of the spreading dust.

It had a collapsed look.

"Och, yes; them burruds was foine!" Potts pulled something out of his trousers pocketa strange collapsed object.

But when, an hour later, Company K's whole street was aroused by peal on peal of Abderian laughter, Jack and Nick were found helpless in their bunks, and Barney was engaged in presenting a potion to settle their collapsed nerves!

He sank upon his knees: another blow struck his head, and Donnegan collapsed on the body of big George.

He collapsed on the floor, and was convinced for a couple of minutes that he had been hit, and for some time after that he was suffering from shell shock.

James stared at him an instant, and then suddenly collapsed and fell back inert upon the bed.

Namur finally collapsed but clever strategy enabled the French to fall back upon their main lines.

The first was the very large number of Belgian soldiers wounded only in the legs, and, secondly, many of the soldiers seem to have collapsed through sheer exhaustion.

He had been sitting quietly over the fire, and spoke so suddenly that Kalitan collapsed into silence.

First time in my life: announce!" Heywood suddenly collapsed on a sack, and laughed himself into abject silence.

At the foot of the companionway steps, Popinot, no phantom but the veritable Apache himself, was writhing and heaving convulsively; and even as Lanyard looked, the huge body of the creature lifted from the floor in one last, heroic spasm, then collapsed, and moved no more.

The Manchu dynasty has collapsed, though the "Emperor" still remains as a quasi-sacred, priestly personage, and the princes have been pensioned off.

And the still sad face blazed out radiant with pleasure, and then collapsed as suddenly into deep melancholy.

At that instant she was minded to take the letter and fling it in Stafford's face, and with it fling back the pledge which he had given her the night before; then she collapsed, as it were, and sank into a chair, dropping the letter and covering her face with her hands.

For a space they stood aghast and unhelpful from fright, then Jason tried to lift his master from the heap into which he had collapsed.

Bubble's dignity collapsed with his attitude.

People perceived, it is true, that the clothes that were made for giants, were too wide for you pigmies; they hung round your figures like collapsed balloons; but you, cunning that you were, you said, "We have been wasted by persecution."

Has market capitalism collapsed?

This snow-white figure was allowed to sink very, very slowly, the dark curtains uniting above it as it gradually sank, until only the oval white head-dress around what should have been a face rested for a few seconds on the very floor, and then suddenly collapsed.

The place collapsed and I got pinned inside.