When she at last arrivedshe was a nondescript-looking girl, with a small hat squashed on her head, a serge coat and skirt, black gloves and shoes with spatsEdith greeted her rather reproachfully with: 'You're late, Grace.'

Who squashed the Orsini?

Pa tried to head off Bolivar at the grocery, but Bolivar took half a watermelon and put the red side on top of pa's head, and squashed it down so the seeds and juice and pulp ran down pa's shirt and neck, and he looked as though murder had been committed, but pa wiped his face on his shirt sleeve and showed game, because he kept mauling Bolivar with the hook.

Hope none of them take a notion to knock my poor old stump flat, or I'd be squashed into a pancake.

"Why, if he'd laid hold of me just once, he'd of squashed my muscles like they was rotten fruit!" Of one accord they turned back to the house.

The elongated top of it, which had a fluted, rudder-like adornment, made you think of Siegfried's helmet in the opera; but the bottom, which was squashed out of shape, made you think of a total loss.

It was as though a giant had sat himself down upon each little house in turn and squashed it to the foundation stones.

Under agitating circumstances you are cool, and I verily think that you would have reported the earthquake at Lisbon without missing one squashed hidalgo, one drop of the blue blood spilt, one convent unroofed, or one convent belle damaged.

Sir Walter Scott said of his "Baviad and Mæviad, that "he squashed at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugged the world long enough."

Her white serge costume was mud from head to foot, her hat was squashed out of shape, and even her poor face bore traces of contact with the Red Road.

We must have looked odd going along; I squashed in beside her with a poodle and Fanny at my feet, and poor Mr. Harrington clinging to one side like grim death, so as to try and get the balance more level.

I hugged and kissed them both, and almost squashed Tom's buttonhole into his pink coat, I was so pleased, but he said he didn't mind; and then we all went down together, and no one else was ready, so we looked through the rooms.

Lord Doraine sat between me and Octavia, and I suppose he was afraid of crushing her dress, for he positively squashed me, he sat so close.

Stones came rumbling down from the old square tower, which had stood since the days of Bayazid; the faded gray houses squashed like eggs.

Let me seeit was two chocolate mice I hadI hope they didn't get squashed when we were playing!

Then Harris packed the strawberry jam on top of a tomato and squashed it, and they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.

It is then taken to another apartment, and placed in duly prepared compartments under a strong screw-press, by which operation it is transformed from a loose cylinder to a well squashed parallelogram.

Only conceive the horror of being squashed into such a neighbour for twenty-one long hours, and over a road that necessarily kept jerking the unwashed and polecatty head into your face ten times in a minute!

The cane when brought from the field is placed between two heavy rollers, worked by steam, and the juice falls into a conductor belowthe squashed cane being carried away to dry for fuelwhence

He accomplished his part successfully, and then poor Dudley was hauled and pulled at till purple in the face, and breathless with exertion, he exclaimed, "I'm being squashed to a jelly; let go, I can't do it!"

Being quite dispirited with toil, I lay down and began to bemoan my widow and fatherless children, when one of the reapers came quite near me, and I screamed as loud as I could, fearing I should be squashed to death by his foot.

Among them were two who had been Great Men, Managers signing per and pro, Heads of Departments, almost Tin Gods, and one of them, alas, was at the mercy of a mere boy whom he had detested and frequently "squashed" in the happy days of yore.

" "But that was the reason the pudding came to grief," continued Crayshaw; "they were very large and fierce, and in my terror I let it fall, and it was squashed.

Their skulls squashed like overripe oranges.

When they rode out of the town the wet sand squashed under the feet of their horses and splashed up on their riding boots and their slickers.