At the crash Mr. Merrick involuntarily shut down the machine, and then they all stood around and looked gloomily at the smash-up and wondered if the damage was irreparable.

We were on the train, but there has been a smash-up, and we" "Land sakes alive!

A smash-up, did you say?" cried the old lady.

That had been too much for Ford, after his car-ride, and his smash-up, and his long walk.

If a man bought a car on thirty days' time, and had a smash-up the day after he received it, there would be little equity left behind the debt.

" "Unfortunately," Bridges remarked, as he sipped the cocktail which the cinema man had ordered, "this chap Romilly was broke, wasn't he?did a scoot to avoid the smash-up?

I thought by your exclamation that something had happened to the carriage or the horses, and that we were on the verge of a smash-up.

Ever since you and he had that smash-up with the automobile, people have kind of got it into their heads that you're keeping company.

And yet we inconsiderately grumble at an occasional smash-up!

There was the affair over in a neighboring town, when yeggmen broke into the bank, and robbed it; and now here you tell me we've had a little smash-up on our own account, with the burglars leaving cards behind them.

A theory is a looking- glass that reflects the past and makes it look like the future, but the glass really hides the future, and when humanity comes to a turn in its course, there is always a smash-up, and a blind groping for the lost path.

"I said I was afraid we'd have a smash-up, and we did.

In many cases, when he had got his wheels locked, he had so excited his mules that they would run down the hill, cripple some of the men, break the wagon, cause a "smash-up" in the train, and perhaps destroy the very rations and clothes on which some poor soldier's life depended.

He was rather a short man, but very heavy, and I could see no signs of his having been hurt by the smash-up he made in falling.

While I was looking for it, out started a freight-train, as if on purpose to meet the cars I was expecting, for a grand smash-up.

How far does the practical bankruptcy of Western civilisation mean a revolutionary smash-up, and a phase that may last for centuries, of disorder and more and more futile conflict?

Hunnicott, at Gaston, was besought to gain time in the hearing by any and all means; and Loring was asked to authorize the risk of a rear-end smash-up.

We have cards for a "Soiree musicale" at Mrs. 's, which is to be a great smash-up.

The Lady President had gone to a Rest Cure, and the Meeting resolved itself into a Good Cry and a general Smash-Up.

I've got her knocked into five thousand pieces nowI'll dream of those confounded smash-ups and Sally in the midst of 'em, if you don't drop that magazine.

In the smash-up a rude chair struck her just south of the belt line and she fears brain fever from the blow.

The Major was spreading himself out in building houses, clearing land, and unconsciously preparing the way to a smash-up; and the immediate care of the family devolved more and more upon the younger brother.

Few drivers know when and how to use the whip to prevent a runaway or a smash-up.

Of course it was dreadfully rash and all that," he went on, as if commenting upon the amusing waywardness of a child; "but the result is the usual smash-up of everything, money, credit, and all!"

I’m going to beat that fellow, Larry, but I want him to show his hand fully before we come to a smash-up.