Crumble the butter into the flour as finely as possible, add the sugar, and work the whole up to a smooth paste with the boiling milk.

I tell thee seriously that I felt my heart crumble away from me when I saw my shaft so miss its aim, and those great beasts of thine coming straight at me.

On one side are the rich folk with "only" sons, who continually increase their fortunes; on the other, the poor folk, who, by reason of their unrestrained prolificness, see the little they possess crumble yet more and more.

An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must perish, for false prophets in the present as in the past stumble onward to their doom; while their tabernacles crumble with dry rot.

The popes may exalt Saint Peter as the founder of their spiritual empire, but when their empire as an institution shall crumble away, as all institutions must which are not founded on the "Rock" which it was the mission of apostles to proclaim, Paul will stand out the most illustrious of all Christian teachers.

While the tide of new life that was kindled by the torch of revolution seems destined to crumble into dust.

Let them only say this, and do nothing, and the whole fabric of slavery would instantly crumble and fall.

I had been in a besieged and captured city; I had mixed with homeless and starving people; I had seen houses crumble and burn; and ghastly human figures with their insides oozing away and the eyes staring vacantly.

Whether he be republican, flying from the oppression of thronesor whether he be monarch or monarchist, flying from thrones that crumble and fall under or around him,he feels equal assurance, that if he get foothold on our soil, his person is safe, and his rights will be respected.

While the foundations are firm, there need be no fears of the superstructure, which may be renewed again and again; but touch the foundations, and the superstructure must crumble at once.

His mortar stuck, and his bricks did not crumble, and his lumber did not crack.

The great banker stood, a colossus of wealth and stability to the eye, though ready to crumble at a touch, and, indeed, self-doomed; for bankruptcy was now his game.

The subtlest oligarchy of modern times was about to crumble.

If he had his way society would crumble down again.

She was getting used to having everything she touched crumble to dust, and besides, she felt too tired to care which way things went any more.

We all pass away, but the sea remains the same; and all our empires and literatures, arts and towns, crumble and decay, and are proved toys.

There is something so pitifully mean in the inverted Ambition of that Man who can hope for Annihilation, and please himself to think that his whole Fabrick shall one Day crumble into Dust, and mix with the Mass of inanimate Beings, that it equally deserves our Admiration and Pity.

Allowing things that crumble, waste, Our whole attention claim, We cause sweet Innocence in haste To leave our homes to shame.

Monuments may crumble, but a name endures as long as the world.

Unlike the other rags it did not crumble, and when he lifted it he found that it was a small bag, made of buckskin, tied at the endand heavy!

The latter will crumble away very soon, while the former will retain its form for hours, reminding one of its condition in the stomach, "as hard as a bullet," for a long time resisting the action of the gastric juice, although, meanwhile, the yeast germs which have not been killed in the oven are converting the mass into a lump of yeast, by which the whole contents of the stomach are soured.

I understand things which, when you have made the bitter effort and admitted to be true and certain, you put into your mind to keep (so to speak); and hardly a day has passed, when a soft, quiet hand seems to begin to crumble them down and to wear them away to nothing.

When fame and fortune you attain, And more than royal sway is sure, 'Twill be the majesty of brain, A majesty that must endure, Till thrones of kings and queens shall tumble, And monuments of stone and brass, Shall into shapeless ruin crumble, And blow away like withered grass.

Towards the end of the dry season, the grass, when not burnt off by the natives, presents a most uninviting, withered appearance, being so dry as almost to crumble into dust if rubbed between the palms of the hand.

#écrouler; s'#, fall in ruin, crumble.