Shattered Sentence Examples

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  • His attention was instantly drawn to the shattered cellular phone.

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  • He'll be shattered, ruined.

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  • Let me enjoy the shattered pieces you left.

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  • My ringing cell phone shattered my concentration.

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  • My mind was like a thousand pieces of shattered glass, impossible to make whole.

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  • Successive temples have been shattered by avalanches, and the existing building is modern.

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  • On the 4th, as Pemberton surrendered at Vicksburg, Lee drew off his shattered forces.

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  • His trench and shirt were shredded and his favorite sword shattered, along with the majority of his other weapons.

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  • O'Donnell went to Spain, where he died soon afterwards, and Tyrone with a shattered force made his way once more to the north, where he renewed his policy of ostensibly seeking pardon while warily evading his enemies.

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  • Just after the uprising of1729-1730the French, with the help of the Choctaws, had destroyed the Natchez nation, and the shattered remnants were absorbed by the neighbouring tribes.

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  • The glass shattered into a million tiny, shards on the floor.

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  • Elizabeth of England he wished to restore to the Roman obedience either by conversion or by force; but these projects were shattered by the destruction of the Spanish Armada.

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  • He faces further surgery to repair his shattered skull.

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  • Directly the crust was pierced the whole mass was shattered into minute fragments.

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  • When having limbered up the only two cannon that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill (one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode up to Tushin.

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  • Jule had shattered her carefully built world in a day, and he'd done it without the brutal lessons her father resorted to.

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  • The jaguar launched itself at the child, and Toby.s scream shattered the quiet morning as its jaw clamped on his arm.

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  • It is at this period that Ranke believes Maximilian to have entertained the idea of a universal monarchy; but whatever hopes he may have had were shattered by the death of his son Philip and the rupture of the treaty of Blois.

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  • The monarchical principle was shaken to its foundations by the English revolution of 1688; it was shattered by the French revolution of 1789; and though it survives as a political force, more or less strongly, in most European countries, "monarchists," in the strict sense of the word, are everywhere a small and dwindling minority.

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  • It proved a disastrous failure, and on the return of the shattered remnants (1171) a great constitutional reform seemed necessary.

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  • But this prosperous career came to an end, his health being shattered by an accidental dislocation of the right arm.

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  • In December 1812, while "the last shattered remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army struggled across the ice of the Niemen," the tsar Alexander I.

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  • The significance of this ordinance lay in the fact that it shattered the privileged position of the nobility, by abolishing the exclusive right to the possession of fiefs.

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  • On really bad days Mae would come home absolutely shattered.

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  • Take care to clear up all the shattered pieces - they become very soggy on melting!

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  • The propositions on the circle, forty-six in number (shattered by Wallis in 1662), were omitted by Hobbes when he republished the Dialogues in 1668, in the collected edition of his Latin works from which Molesworth reprints.

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  • So utterly had he shattered the emperors power that he could doubtless have marched straight to Vienna; he preferred, however, to proceed through central into southern Germany, while his Saxon ally, the elector John George, recovered Silesia and Lusatia and invaded Bohemia.

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  • The war was continued by Austria, but her power was so effectually shattered by blow after blow that in 1797 she was forced to conclude the peace of Campo Formio.

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  • In the event of the actual constitution of the Bund being shattered by war, the German states were asked whether they would be prepared to join this new organization.

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  • Turkey's shattered fleets were soon restored, and Sokolli was preparing for a fresh attack on Venice, when the sultan's death on the 12th of December 1574 cut short his plans.

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  • Moreover, to the refusal to revive the Empire - which shattered so many patriotic hopes in Germany - Austria added another decision yet more fateful.

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  • The " Holy Alliance " of the three autocratic northern powers, recemented at Miinchengratz in 1833, which had gained for Austria the decisive intervention of the tsar in 1849, had been hopelessly shattered by her attitude during the Crimean War.

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  • Both were utterly shattered in a brief campaign of four months (1817-18).

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  • The Turin Papyrus preserves many names on its shattered fragments, and the monuments are for ever adding to the list, but it is difficult to assign them accurately to their places.

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  • In 571 the Haiathalah (Ephthalites, q.v.) of the Oxus, who are supposed to be descendants of the Yue-chi, were shattered by an invasion of the Turkish khakan; and in the following century the Chinese pilgrim Hsuen Tsang found the former empire of the Haiathalah broken up into a great number of small states, all acknowledging the supremacy of the Turkish khakan, and several having names identical with those which still exist.

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  • It is worth while to note that while most of the cures which Jesus had performed appear to have belonged to this class, this particular case is described as an exceptionally severe one, and the visible effect of the removal of his tormentors may have greatly helped to restore the man's shattered personality.

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  • Epiphanes led to a war with Rome in which the power of the Seleucid Empire was shattered (190 B.C.), Decayofthe Asia Minor lost, and the king compelled to pay a Seleucid heavy contribution to Rome for a long term of years.

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  • The deep split over the war on Iraq shattered any illusions in a common position on really decisive foreign issues.

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  • Jonathan knocked a lamp off the table and it shattered.

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  • All of them screamed, and a frantic backward glance revealed the back window shattered and ready to fall in.

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  • Morton landed with Warwick at Dartmouth on the 13th of September 1470, but the battle of Tewkesbury finally shattered the Lancastrian hopes, and Morton made his peace with Edward IV., probably through the mediation of Archbishop Bourchier.

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  • Captain Barclay, after a hot engagement - the Battle of Lake Erie - in which Captain Perry's flagship the "Lawrence," a brig, was so severely shattered that he had to leave her, was completely defeated.

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  • But in reorganizing the shattered finances of the state and preparing it for its greater destinies, he had to impose heavy taxes, which led to rioting and involved the minister himself in considerable though temporary unpopularity.

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  • The closing years of the Judaean kingdom and the final destruction of the temple (586 B.C.) shattered the Messianic ideals cherished in the evening of Isaiah's lifetime and again in the opening years of the reign of Josiah.

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  • Bolivar therefore resolved, if possible, to strike a decisive blow; and this accordingly he did at Carabobo, where, encountering Torre, he so completely routed the Spaniards that the shattered remains of their army were forced to take refuge in Puerto Cabello, where two years after they surrendered to Paez.

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  • In that country the Church almost completely lost her possessions; in Germany they were at least considerably curtailed; in both the hierarchical organization was shattered, while the Catholic laity surveyed the catastrophe in complete passivity.

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  • Chilpancingo, in Guerrero, was badly shattered in 1902, and in 1907, and in 1909 was reduced to a mass of ruins.

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  • Huc returned to Europe in shattered health in 1852, visiting India, Egypt and Palestine on his way, and, after a prolonged residence in Paris, died on the 31st of March 1860.

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  • Thanks to the glass-hardness of this face, the projectile is arrested so abruptly that it is shattered, and its energy is delivered piecemeal by its fragments; but as the face is integrally united with the unhardened, ductile and slightly yielding interior and back, the plate, even if it is locally bent backwards somewhat by the blow, neither cracks nor flakes.

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  • Europe had been shattered by the Napoleonic wars.

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  • The framework of society was shattered, communal life and religion were disorganized.

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  • The position of the British camp, its communications with the citadel and the location of the stores were the worst possible; and the general (Elphinstone) was shattered in constitution.

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  • During the Wars of Religion, Caen embraced the reform; in the succeeding century its prosperity was shattered by the revocation of the edict of Nantes (1685).

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  • Internal disturbances of a religious and political character and external disasters had long ago shattered the empire of the Sassanids indeed, but the Iranians had not yet lost their patriotism.

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  • The whole press was clamorous for war; Thiers declared that the alliance with Great Britain was shattered, and pressed on warlike preparations; even Louis Philippe was carried away by the fever.

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  • The popes of the Renaissance were profoundly uninterested in theology; they were far more at home in an art gallery, or in fighting to recover their influence as temporal Italian princes, gravely shattered during the long residence of the papal court at Avignon in the 14th century.

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  • That rediscovery of the classic past restored the confidence in their own faculties to men striving after spiritual freedom; revealed the continuity of history and the identity of human nature in spite of diverse creeds and different customs; held up for emulation masterworks of literature, philosophy and art; provoked inquiry; encouraged criticism; shattered the narrow mental barriers imposed by medieval orthodoxy.

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  • In concert with the American generals, he planned an attack on Newport, preparatory to which he compelled the British to destroy some war vessels that were in the harbour; but before the concerted attack could take place, he put to sea against the English fleet, under Lord Howe, when owing to a violent storm, which arose suddenly and compelled the two fleets to separate before engaging in battle, many of his vessels were so shattered that he found it necessary to put into Boston for repairs.

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  • Throughout the country bridges were shattered, roads were broken up like ploughed fields, and the beds of rivers were dislocated.

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  • Of the states which arose out of the shattered Assyrian Empire (Media, Babylon, Egypt, Cilicia and Lydia), Media was by far the strongest.

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  • Karim reunited his shattered forces at Tehritn, and retired to Ispahan to prepare for a second campaign.

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  • The shore was reached, but the vessel had been miserably shattered in its passage through the rocks.

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  • His health was shattered in 1825, but he continued his lectures until attacked by fever on the 14th of June 1827.

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  • The instantaneous revulsion of public feeling was somewhat unreasonable, for Pitt's health seems now to have been beyond doubt so shattered by his hereditary malady, that he was already in old age though only fifty-eight.

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  • When at length in October 1768 he tendered his resignation on the ground of shattered health, he did not fail to mention the dismissal of Amherst and Shelburne as a personal grievance.

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  • The fortified post of Muselimi fell with little resistance, but on the Great Bardanjolt the attack was shattered at the wire.

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  • On the 15th the village of Aong was captured, and on the 16th the Nana's force was utterly shattered in the battle of Cawnpore.

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  • That brutal assault cost Sumner three years of heroic struggle to restore his shattered health - years during which Massachusetts loyally re-elected him, in the belief that in the Senate chamber his vacant chair was the most eloquent pleader for free speech and resistance to slavery.

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  • The dream of the Habsburgs was shattered.

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  • Alberonis dream was shattered by the treaty of London in 1720.

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  • Finally, all hope of the conduct of affairs being entrusted to him was shattered when the Assembly passed a law forbidding its members to become ministers.

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  • As though shattered by a reverberant echo from the cannon of the Trebbia, the Directory crumbled to pieces, succumbing on the 18th of June 1799 beneath the reprobation showered on Treilhard, Merlin de Douai, and La Rvellire-Lpeaux.

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  • In the first of these campaigns lie swept away the remnants of the old Roman-Germanic empire, and out of its shattered fragments created in southern Germany the vassal states of Bavaria, Baden, Wurttemberg, Hesse1805.

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  • The Mahon1medan Con quest.How utterly weak it was can be seen from the fact that it was shattered by the feeble Moslem invasion of 711.

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  • Such a kingdom as this needed only attack from a more solidly organized power to be shattered.

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  • The last remnants of its maritime power were shattered in the battles of Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar, and the English seized Buenos Aires.

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  • Though to death he was wounded he struck so strong a stroke That from the shattered shield-rim forthwith out there broke Showers of flashing jewels; the shield in fragments lay.2 Then reproaching them for their cowardice and treachery, Siegfried fell dying "amid the flowers," while the knights gathered round lamenting.

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  • The years from 1850 to 1859 were devoted to restoring the shattered finances of Sardinia, reorganizing the army and modernizing the antiquated institutions of the kingdom.

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  • I managed twenty minutes of drinking in sunshine before a call on my cell phone shattered my peace like a car bomb in a Bagdad market.

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  • The building shuddered, one explosion hitting close enough to her room that her windows shattered.

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  • He let out a primordial scream and threw the glass of blood at the painting with so much force, the crystal shattered and blood splattered crimson all over the painting and wall.

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  • All at once the snow shattered into a hard slab avalanche.

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  • And teachers can find their names blazoned across the newspapers, their careers shattered - and all on the basis of a false accusation.

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  • Underneath the abandoned Victorian cast iron canopies Claire Morgan suspended hundreds of pieces of shattered glass to make five separate forms.

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  • An accompanying editorial [3] speaks of " shattered illusions " .

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  • Within months he went from being a popular, vivacious and outgoing young man to a shattered, isolated loner.

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  • The front of the bus was all mangled and the windscreen was totally shattered.

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  • These case studies illustrate the ease with which what appeared to be a relatively stable modus vivendi is easily shattered.

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  • Twelve years later, his carefree life as a bareback rider is shattered by vivid premonitions.

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  • At 023 049, a large fault is observed, trending approximately N-S, which juxtaposes shattered quartzite against shattered quartzite.

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  • Fragments Shattered shards scattered remnants Cut me drew my blood.

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  • With the shattered remnants of the regiment, now broken up into groups, the wild charge continued.

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  • The spider screamed, a long piercing high pitched scream which shattered through The Captain's hearing.

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  • On the 2nd January my little fantasy world of perfect parenthood was rudely shattered.

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  • Other times, they just get off the rink and go home, emotionally shattered.

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  • Crops grow in the fields and tall trees in woods have replaced the shattered stumps of eighty years ago.

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  • Street after street of tall tenements stand empty, their shattered windows open and gaping to the sky.

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  • But the tranquility of this island paradise was shattered on December 26, 2004, when the giant tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean.

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  • The stereotype has been shattered by the market turmoil of the last few years.

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  • The theoretical basis upon which this formula was devised (the corpuscular theory) was shattered early in the 19th century, and in its place there arose the modern wave theory which theoretically invalidates Newton's formula.

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  • A domestic rebellion (1387-1395) prevented him at the outset from executing his design till 1396, and if the hopes of Christendom were shattered at Nicopolis, the failure was due to no fault of his, but to the haughty insubordination of the feudal levies.

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  • In the west the confederacy of Syrian princes headed by Benhadad of Damascus and including Ahab of Israel (see Jews, § io) was shattered in 853 B.C., and twelve years later the forces of Hazael were annihilated and the ambassadors of Jehu of Samaria brought tribute to " the great king."

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  • Archaeological evidence points clearly now to the conclusion that the splendid but overgrown civilization of the Mycenaean or " late Minoan " period of the Aegean Bronze Age collapsed rather suddenly before a rapid succession of assaults by comparatively barbarous invaders from the European mainland north of the Aegean; that these invaders passed partly by way of Thrace and the Hellespont into Asia Minor, partly by Macedon and Thessaly into peninsular Greece and the Aegean islands; that in east Peloponnese and Crete, at all events, a first shock (somewhat later than i soo B.C.) led to the establishment of a cultural, social and political situation which in many respects resembles what is depicted in Homer as the " Achaean " age, with principal centres in Rhodes, Crete, Laconia, Argolis, Attica, Orchomenus and south-east Thessaly; and that this regime was itself shattered by a second shock or series of shocks somewhat earlier than boo B.C. These latter events correspond in character and date with the traditional irruption of the Dorians and their associates.

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  • Again and again, particularly on their left wing, they chased the German infantry before them, but the moment the retreat of the latter downhill uncovered the pursuing French to the Prussian guns, a tornado of shells shattered their order and compelled them to retreat.

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  • Bolivar was eventually defeated by Boves near Cura, in the plains of La Puerta, and compelled to embark for Cumana with the shattered remains of his forces.

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  • He was one of the commanders in the Punic naval expedition which shattered the Carthaginian fleet at Ecnomus, and landed an army on Carthaginian territory (see Punic Wars).

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  • To sovereigns whose nerves had been shattered by the vicissitudes of the revolutionary epoch these symptoms were in the highest degree alarming; and Metternich was at pains to exaggerate their significance.

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  • The cold reception it met with shattered at a blow the dream of Wolfgang's life; henceforth he realized that to the world he was interesting mainly as "Goethe's grandson," that anything he might achieve would be measured by that terrible standard, and he hated the legacy of his name.

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  • As early as 1860 Newcomb communicated an important memoir to the American Academy, 4 On the Secular Variations and Mutual Relation of the Orbits of the Asteroids, in which he discussed the two principal hypotheses to account for the origin of these bodies - one, that they are the shattered fragments of a single planet (Olbers' hypothesis), the other, that they have been formed by the breaking up of a revolving ring of nebulous matter.

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  • He returned in 146 to find Corinth in ruins, the fairest cities of Achaea at the mercy of the Roman soldiery, and the famous Achaean League shattered to pieces (see Achaean League).

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  • Fragments Shattered shards Scattered remnants Cut me drew my blood.

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  • The spider screamed, a long piercing high pitched scream which shattered through The Captain 's hearing.

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  • What peace there was in the Yorkshire Dales was shattered by the arrival of the Norman conquerors.

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  • Even tho diamond is very tough, it can be shattered by a hard blow, especially at an unlucky angle.

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  • The large basalt boulders were split up into sizes the knapper could handle by heating, and shattered into fragments with gun-like reports.

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  • In just 20 days their whole life was shattered into pieces.

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  • Who cares if we are shattered when we get back?

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  • Take care to clear up all the shattered pieces - they become very soggy on melting !

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  • On closer inspection however this idea was shattered by the noisy greetings of some ten or so spaniel type dogs of varying ages.

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  • Voters find the peaceable kingdom in which they have lived for so long shattered by the brutal emergence of yob rule.

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  • Michael Richards shattered his image in 2006 when he made a racist comment during a comedy club appearance.

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  • Her right leg was shattered in multiple places, and she suffered a severe concussion which caused loss of memory, and more importantly to her career, speech problems.

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  • However, that myth is shattered once you take part in a Christian cruise vacation.

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  • It is rare in a wild state, but occurs in the Tyrol and Italy, amid shattered fragments of rock, and sometimes in flaky rocks without soil.

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  • The demo starts you off in a 2nd story room with all the windows being shattered by gunfire.

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  • There's always the chance that you could forget and end up with a dangerous shattered bottle and a big mess.

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  • One day, you will open the microwave to find broken and/or shattered glass inside the unit.

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  • If you decide on looking for this item at any of these places be sure to measure the diameter of your old plate or where the plate used to be if it shattered.

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  • This can be a high point of the game when a nearly completed sequence is shattered by the removal of a key chip.

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  • However, be sure to keep small children and animals away from the tree so that these ornaments are not shattered, and position them high up the tree.

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  • Taurus knows the limitations of relationships so when she meets up with the giving Leo, all of her preconceived ideas are shattered.

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  • The opening day lines may have been longer, but the climax of the movie would have been shattered for all who saw it.

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  • Seeking to imitate the shattered look of those pieces, women took to their sewing baskets and sewed random pieces of fabric together in haphazard ways, decorating all the sewing lines with intricate embroidery.

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  • All three passengers survived, but Padma Lakshmi ended up with a shattered right arm and a fractured hip.

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  • These started out with the bird simply sitting there on the screen, but as the bit went on, the birds were smashed, crushed, shattered, beheaded, or exploded in a flurry of feathers or a splatter of pinkish goo.

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  • The last part of her world shattered with Wynn's confession.

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  • What was mistaken for it was fashioned in the heat of controversy by men whose interests were practical rather than scientific, who could not write correct English, and revealed in their reasoning the usual fallacies of the merely practical man' So the " old Political Economy " lies shattered.

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  • The confidence restored by the lull during the early part of December was destined to be roughly shattered.

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  • At the battle of Corunna he succeeded to the supreme command after Moore's fall, but shortly afterwards his left arm was shattered, and the command passed to Sir John Hope.

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  • Those who escaped capture by Timur fled to the mountains of Kurdistan, and the community that had played so large a part in Mesopotamian history for a thousand years was thus shattered.

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  • Within the period of Japans written history several eruptions are recorded the last having been in 1707, when the whole summit burst into flame, rocks were shattered, ashes fell to a depth of several inches even in Yedo (TOkyO), 60 m.

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  • The Prussians, having seen the cavalry whilst yet at a distance, ceased firing, formed their skirmishers into groups, and the closed supports standing in deployed lines, two deep, shattered the cavalry with volleys and file-firing, as with blown and exhausted horses they endeavoured to close with their adversaries.

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  • Spragge, whose second flagship was shattered by the Dutch fire, was on his way to a third, his boat was sunk by a cannon shot and he was drowned.

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  • At Simbirsk his prestige had been shattered.

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  • Another consequence of revived erosion is seen in the occurrence of great landslides, where the removal of weak (Permian) clays has sapped the face of the Vermilion Cliffs (Triassic sandstone), so that huge slices of the cliff face have slid down and forward a mile or two, all shattered into a confused tumult of forms for a score or more of miles along the cliff base.

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  • However, the deluge which shattered the opposition to Rome in the great national churches submerged for a time the papacy itself.

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  • Retrenchment often cut to the bone; wise reforms shattered on the inexperience or corruption of officials.

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  • That night the whole city was shaken out of sleep by an explosion of gunpowder which shattered to fragments the building in which he should have slept and perished;and the next morning the bodies of Darnley and a page were found strangled in a garden adjoining it, whither they had apparently escaped over a wall, to be despatched by the hands of Bothwell's attendant confederates.

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  • Kirkaldy of Grange, who commanded the regent's cavalry, seized and kept the place of vantage from the beginning, and at the first sign of wavering on the other side shattered at a single charge the forces of the queen with a loss of one man to three hundred.

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  • But the French would not give battle, and though John marched from Calais right through Champagne, Burgundy and Auvergne, it was with disastrous results; only a shattered remnant of the host reached Bordeaux.

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  • Parnell refused to comply with this request, and the Irish party was shattered into fragments by his decision.

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  • It is agreed that the first three years of Disraeli's leadership in Opposition were skilfully employed in reconstructing the shattered Tory party.

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  • A period of quietness now set in, and the condition of the kingdom, its education, its agriculture and its trade and manufactures, began to receive earnest attention, while by frugality, both in public and in private matters, King William helped to repair the shattered finances of the country.

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  • Robespierre, whose jaw had been shattered by a pistol shot, was left in agony for the night.

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  • He remained at Frankfort, holding the post of Austrian envoy, and was the leader of the so-called Great German party until the dissolution of the Austrian parliament showed that the forces of reaction had conquered at Vienna and shattered all hopes of Austria attaining the position he had hoped for her.

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  • The sudden death of Lambert shattered the hopes which this alliance seemed to promise.

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  • He himself was shattered in health by so many years of continuous campaigning and exposure, and by the cares and disappointments which had befallen him.

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  • He escaped with life, though with shattered health, and it was the identification of the man who drove his assailants' car that afterwards led to the discovery of the whole conspiracy.

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  • Like the fiefs, feudal institutions at large had been shattered.

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  • Cervantes was undoubtedly present, and had his left hand shattered by a Turkish bullet.

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  • His cherished schemes were shattered.

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  • Towards the close of the 9th century Arabia was disturbed by the rise of a new movement which during the next hundred years dominated the peninsula, and at its close left it shattered never to be united again.

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  • Maximinus now ordered her to be broken on the wheel; but the wheel was shattered by her touch.

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  • In 1775 the Nantucket fleet numbered 150, and the population was between 5000 and 6000, about 90% being Quakers; but by 1785 the fleet had been shattered, 134 ships being destroyed or captured during the war.

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  • They attempted in 512 to take Bougie from the Spaniards, but were beaten off, and Arouj lost an arm, shattered by an arquebus shot.

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  • Soon afterwards he returned to England to recruit his shattered health, but on learning that Pitt desired him to continue in America he at once offered to return.

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  • The flagship of the duke of York, the "Prince" (loo), was so shattered that he was compelled to leave her, and go to the "St Michael."

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  • The "Royal James" (loo), the flagship of his second in command, the earl of Sandwich, after being much shattered by the Dutch artillery, was set alight by a fire-ship, and destroyed with enormous loss of life.

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  • But Austria and Russia gave him no time for anything but defence, and it was not until the peace of Jassy (1792) that a breathing space was allowed him in Europe, while Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt and Syria soon called for Turkey's strongest efforts and for the time shattered the old-standing French alliance.

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  • The political power of the Empire, indeed, had been shattered; but this left all the more room for the vigorous development of national states, notably of France and England.

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  • The tomb of William I., the founder's father - a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy - and the founder William II.'s tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

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  • Dean rose and began to leave the room, disgusted that Gladys Turnbull would trivialize Edith Shipton's death in fiction, even before the shattered woman was cold in the ground.

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  • But he was 10th to execute judgments upon English Puritans, and modern high churchmen complain of his infirmity of purpose, his opportunism and his failure to give Parker adequate assistance in rebuilding the shattered fabric of the English Church.

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  • To the west the new duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, was steadily piecing together the fragments of his father's shattered duchy.

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  • The unearthly shrill of the telephone shattered the scene, once, twice, three times before Dean clawed at the instrument and grumbled something.

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  • In Shelley's lines, When the lamp is shattered, vv.

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