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• They regarded the British Army as practically crushed, and almost useless as a fighting force Relying upon this, they had no hesitation in leaving what they thought were the remnants of the Allied forces immediately north and east of the Paris fortifications to be dealt with by such of their own forces as were operating through Amiens and on their extreme right. —  1914
• If we do not rise in our might and crush this rebellion root and branch, we shall be crushed--and no honest, observant man can deny it. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• The Whisky Rebels of Western Pennsylvania intensely hated the rule of George Washington; but their rebellion being crushed, all trace of the bitterness it engendered soon faded away As to the aristocracy of the South, it understands the case far better, though individuals among its members are misled. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• La Vendιe is crushed, the Austrians beaten, the Army of the Rhine has forced the lines of Lautern and of Wissembourg. —  Dieux ont soif. English
• In almost a single instant the ship which had borne me through what had seemed great perils was, so far as appeared to me, swallowed up in the sea,--crushed and broken into fragments by the falling ice, and every one of my companions was swallowed up with it. —  Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner

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