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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
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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
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Just when you think they've already smithereened the silly barrier, what the world needs most swiftly turns up:
NME Features 2010
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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.
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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.
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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
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