They said the bombardment was so terrible that it disrupted their plans so that they could not be carried out and that they could not resist the attack.

The old party lines were violently disrupted, and President Wilson was elected as the leader of a new era seeking new ideals of universal equality.

Awake, I glared upon a page where the words ran crazily about like a disrupted colony of ants.

If General Meade could cross suddenly, and by a rapid march interpose between Ewell and the scattered divisions of Hill far in rear, it appeared not unreasonable to conclude that Lee's army would be completely disrupted, and that the two corps, one after another, might be crushed by the Federal army.

Such was the excellent success of the Federal movement, and the Southern line seemed to be hopelessly disrupted.

There flamed before his eyes the terrible spectacle which he had witnessed a few hours beforethe holocaust of fire and smoke and thunder that had disrupted a mountain, a chaos of writhing, twisting fury, and in that moment his heart seemed to cease its beating.

At the time of the adoption of the constitution, business was terribly depressed, and the bitterness of feeling among the states would probably soon have disrupted the Union.

But in the destabilised atmosphere of disrupted narrative, it spread faster, wider and with greater effect than it otherwise would have.

I confess to knowledge of a large book bearing the above title,a title which is no less appropriate for this brief, disrupted biographical memorandum.

And then they came to a place where it seemed as if a volcano had disrupted the bowels of a mountain.

I've got a camera here that I bought special, thinking it would be fun later to show round my album in the States an' point out this man being skewered on a bayonet an' that one being disrupted by a bomb an' the next lot charging a trench.

It was one of those insignificant trifles that before now have disrupted the mightiest plans of nations and of men.

Yet try as we may we cannot live upon a totally disrupted planet without bringing a common disaster upon us all.

That hush was disrupted.

The Charleston Convention had been disrupted on the 30th of April, and adjourned on May 3; the nomination of John Bell by the Constitutional Union party occurred on May 10.

The disunionists were his partisans, his friends, and confidential counselors; they constituted a remnant of the once proud and successful party which, by his compliance and coöperation in their interest, he had disrupted and defeated.

Mrs. Croly said: "It does not matter; if anything happens that the General Federation should be disrupted, another will be formed at once."

"Suddenly, as light swept chaos, this peaceful fancy was disrupted,her heart ravished from its rest, its calm torn from it.

The great houses of the aristocracy and the gentry, scattered villages, towns and walled cities were preoccupied and disrupted by endless feuding and between-seasons warfare.

Ordinarily, such challenges will coincide with the inter-imperial wars which have periodically disrupted every civilization known to history.

Despite several attempts to unify the continent politically, Europe was disrupted, fragmented and weakened by two general wars in a single generation.

The normalcy on which Spengler based his assumption was disrupted around 1750 when a series of new dynamic factors entered the stream of modern social history: I. Mankind gained access to immense stores of energy which supplemented human energy, the energies of domesticated animals and a miniscule use of water power and air power.

If casualties in the 1914-18 war had been numbered in dozens, or scores or even in hundreds, the communities from which they came could have gone on without themhandicapped perhaps but not seriously disrupted.

Anon the columns movethey shake, Totter, and vacillate, and shake, And wrenched by giant force, come down Like a disrupted mountain's crown, With cornice, frieze, and chapiter, Girder, and spangled dome, and wall, Ceiling of gold, and roof of fir, Crumbled in mighty ruin all.

As he did so his quick eye caught sight of a woman's handkerchief lying at the foot of the disrupted root.