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  • So hard, her head twisted on her neck, and the bottle of linement, flung from her hand, smithereened on the tile floor — where I, scampering out of the tub to enrich the fray, stepped on it and all but severed both big toes.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • That work was positively smithereened by its absorption into the 19th-century art market, so that its various parts must now be sought in cities as far afield as Milan, New York and Lisbon.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Just when you think they've already smithereened the silly barrier, what the world needs most swiftly turns up:

    NME Features 2010

  • It can hardly get any worse after an awful autumn during which they were smithereened by the southern-hemisphere three, and they start with the aperitif of Italy at Twickenham.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • It can hardly get any worse after an awful autumn during which they were smithereened by the southern-hemisphere three, and they start with the aperitif of Italy at Twickenham.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • So hard, her head twisted on her neck, and the bottle of linement, flung from her hand, smithereened on the tile floor " where I, scampering out of the tub to enrich the fray, stepped on it and all but severed both big toes.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

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