He was not made for any form of government that crushes out his intellect and his religious capabilities.

I know your heart, it alarms me, crushes me.

None of them have the power to relieve you from a wearisome monotony which crushes you and makes you an object of pity.

This king causes the earthquakes when he struggles or stirs himself, and he is so strong that in shaking hands with him it is necessary to extend to him a bone, which he crushes in his grasp.

She has a very affectionate nature, and gets tremendous crushes on the people she likes.

All the girls get violent crushes on her," she continued, looking the Winnebagos over with a quizzical eye, as if to say that it would only be a short time before they, too, would be lying at Pom-pom's feet, another band of adoring slaves.

The car of destiny goes on unrestrained, and the weight of its wheels often crushes the happiness of generations; floods of tears and of blood often mark its track.

Some have friends who would rescue them, if they could; others have no friend, no home, no nationality even, the pariahs of the sea, sullen, stupid, and broken-down, burnt-out shells of men, which the belaying-pin of some brutal or passionate mate crushes into sudden collapse, or which the hospital duly consigns to the potter's field.

In sum, he is a bladder blown up with wind, which the least flaw crushes to nothing.

" "Then it is justice," she cried, "that crushes the individual for the happiness of the race, that destroys an enfeebled species to fatten the victorious species.

The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces.

He may, if we like, symbolize the new generation that is always deriving sustenance from the old, without care or thought of what the old has to suffer; he crushes his head against his mother's breast in a very passion of vigorous dependence.

"We who have so far kept our heads above the gloomy surface, what are we to do in face of the implacable universe, where the stronger eternally crushes the weaker, and is crushed by a stronger yet, in his turn?

Your heart would swell with pride if you could see the way she puts down men who are not quite good style; and the ease with which she crushes those odious American girls, with their fine complexions and loud manners.

Butsuch is the fatalism of cynical fable-lorethe shepherd, still in a stupor, crushes the gnat that has saved his life.

So far, again, from regarding the abstract intellect as a vast Juggernaut machine which absorbs and crushes the individual thinker, it treats him individually as having his own constitution, raison d'être, and intrinsic interest, and credits him with a power to make new truths and to enrich the resources of thought.

And then life crushes them, politely but firmly crushes them.

And then life crushes them, politely but firmly crushes them.

Now, in my view of the matter, the two most dangerous of all parties in a state, are that which sets up conservatism as its standard, and that which sets up progress: the one is for preserving things of which it would be better to be rid, while the other crushes all that is necessary and useful in its headlong course.

It is the despotism of American slaverywhich crushes the very life of humanity out of its victims, and transforms them to cattle!

Law is to him all exaction and no protection: instead of lightening his natural burdens, it crushes him under a multitude of artificial ones; instead of a friend to succor him, it is his deadliest foe, transfixing him at every step from the cradle to the grave.

It is the despotism of American slaverywhich crushes the very life of humanity out of its victims, and transforms them to cattle!

It may well be that a man is at times horribly threshed by misfortunes, public and private: but the reckless flail of Fate, when it beats the rich sheaves, crushes only the straw; and the corn feels nothing of it and dances merrily on the floor, careless whether its way is to the mill or the furrow.

Jug is the juggernaut that crushes his hard earnings in the dust, or, without the figure, distils them into drink.

To stay in a new house crushes me with fatigueand even a little party like this, which seems, I daresay, to some of you, a negligible, even a tedious thing, is to me rich in far-flung experience.