29 Verbs to Use for the Word collapses

They were the most powerful instruments of victory, and if not the essential cause, certainly not the least important among the causes which brought about the collapse of the Central Empires.

In a word Mr. Hepplewhite was subpoenaed and the nervous excitement attendant upon that operation nearly caused his collapse.

Before the third year closed, at the end of July, however, Russia's offensive suffered a collapse.

We see this in the years immediately following Fu Chien's collapse: the Tibetan ethnical group to which he himself belonged disappeared entirely from the historical scene.

We had almost gained the conviction that his aims were really pure, and here we are called on to witness his utter collapse, in which he almost whines for pardon for his sins, and, like all worthless fellows without character seems actually to soften in gratitude to the man who sent him to his death.

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Not only did many civil officials, voicing public opinion in their island communities, urge that the supply of negro slaves be greatly increased as a means of preventing industrial collapse, but a delegation of Jeronimite friars and the famous Bartholomeo de las Casas, who had formerly been a Cuban encomendero and was now a Dominican priest, appeared in Spain to press the same or kindred causes.

"My dear sir," said Tom, "allow me to remind you, after this excitement comes a collapse; and that is not to be trifled with just now.

After existing twenty years in a sunless world hardly three acres wide, she one day suddenly saw the only sky which she knew collapse at one point!

It is humiliating to acknowledge the complete collapse of that which for so many decades has been the keystone of our ruling with regard to our Eastern Empire, but the arch has collapsed; Germany pulled the keystone out, and all our efforts to exclude Russia from free access to the Mediterranean have only resulted in letting Germany in.

The flight of Dom Manuel meant the collapse of his cause.

This failure at one moment menaced the total collapse of the Montenegrin campaign, from which the ability of Bozo saved it.

He pointed out the utter collapse to this and to all the rest of the mine's connections which a strike would entail.

Yet when he cast his eye on America, where perhaps the greatest progress had been made in the world's history within fifty years, he saw nothing but melancholy signs of anarchy and decay,signs portending the collapse of liberty and the triumph of ignorance and crime.

The patient was not a young man; the shock had been very severeit was a case, a very slight one, of cerebral congestionand Mr. Ireland's reason, if not his life, might be gravely jeopardised by any attempt to recall before his enfeebled mind the circumstances which had preceded his collapse.

And he came to his office every morning with a little smile on his face, in such wise that nothing in this man of regular methodical life revealed the collapse within him, all the ashes and smoldering fire which disaster had left in his heart.

Jane, seeing Dean collapse, had turned to aid him and for some time had been bending over him, trying to revive him.

" She made a gesture to stay him, and by an effort seemed to shake off the threatening collapse.

The course of events has shown the temporary collapse of economic individualism in the face of the European crisis.

It isn't soif one collapses, it only means that one has been living an artificial and parasitical life.

His Grace took the maid in his strong arms, and though his legs threatened collapse, bore her toward the door.

But his departure left me rather depressed, for his visit marked the final collapse of my scheme.

Chaffery admitted the collapse of his image in very complimentary terms, and Lewisham could not avoid a glance across the table at Ethel.

He presided over the undertaking, and it was thought that after spending a great deal less than he had received he had then purposely contrived the collapse, in order that his villainy might go undetected.]

Reassured by the magnificent attitude of America's womanhood, business discounted the collapse of the go-cart trust and began to recover from the check very quickly.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  collapses