The hard ground was softened by water, and legendary accounts of Mahomet's powers in pulverising the rocks are numerous.

For, should Democritus Junior prove to be what he professes, even a kinsman of his elder namesake, or be ever so little of the same kidney, it is all over with you: he will become both accuser and judge of you in your spleen, will dissipate you in jests, pulverise you into salt, and sacrifice you, I can promise you, to the God of Mirth.

The land is worked and pulverised, and reploughed, and harrowed, and cleaned, till not a lump the size of a pigeon's egg is to be seen.

She had planned a pulverising surprise for the house-party; and in due time, she intended to explode it, and subsequently Billy was to apologise for his conduct, and then they were to live happily ever afterward.

There had been no rain for a month, but just where the stumps were stuck a bucket or two of water had been dashed hastily on to the arid soil; while, to crown all, a chain or rib rollera ghastly instrument used by agriculturists for scrunching up the lumps and bumps on the ploughed fields, and pulverising the soilhad been used with such effect that the surface of the pitch to the depth of about an inch had been reduced to dust.

High explosive of the kind the Germans use will pulverise the parapet of a trench and kill every one within reach.

In the debating society Hill knew quite clearly that, to a thunderous accompaniment of banged desks, he could have pulverised Wedderburn.

Only Wedderburn never attended the debating society to be pulverised, becausenauseous affectation!he "dined late.

They grow best in a sandy loam, with a little peat, mixed with pulverised brick rubbish.

For their successful growth Heaths require a well-drained soil, composed of three parts finely pulverised peat and one part silver sand, free ventilation, and a careful supply of water, so that the soil is always damp.

For the production of heavy summer and autumn crops a rich and deeply-stirred soil is essential, one of the best fertilisers being well-decayed farmyard manure; but for the earliest crop a poorer soil, if deep and well pulverised, will give the best results.

If this is done in the autumn or early winter to a new garden, it is best to dig it deep, say about 2 ft, and leave it in large clods to the pulverising action of the frost, after which it is easily raked level for spring planting.

It pulverises as easily in dry weather, and makes the same inky and sticky composition in wet.

Here they are fed twice daily, with five pounds of beef's liver pulverised.

"By these great words of the ancient fatherSecurus judicat orbis terrarum"the theory of the Via Media was "absolutely pulverised."

It isn't everyone who needs itonly those self-willed, devilish, stand-off, proud people, who have to be braised in a mortar and pulverised to atoms.

At the first streak of dawn the bombardment was switched off, as if by a tap; the curtain fire was redoubled in volume; and a massed attack swept across the disintegrated wire into the shattered and pulverised Redoubt.

SNOWFLAKES Grate a large cocoanut into a fruit dish, and mix it thoroughly and lightly with pulverised sugar.

Such was the gossip when the scene was once more set in Belgium, and the great Skoda mortars pulverised forts which on paper were impregnable.

If men in the twelfth century had been told that the lightning had been driven for leagues underground, and had dragged at its destroying tail loads of laughing human beings, and if they had then been told that the people alluded to this pulverising portent chirpily as 'The Twopenny Tube,' they would have called down the fire of Heaven on us as a race of half-witted atheists.