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单词 flinders
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Tiwanaku split into flinders that would not be united for another four centuries, when the Inka swept them up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“Blow out your light and get lost in the black, or leave it bum and blow the whole place to flinders. That’s more frightening than any demon.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
He laughed and fired again, and one last tower, one last chess piece, took fire, ignited, and in blue flinders went up to the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
The infinite threatened to make all motion impossible, while the void threatened to smash the nutshell universe into a thousand flinders. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
A stack of old Washington Post stories on the District’s street nomenclature had been reduced to flinders. Someone should write a white paper on my paper-eating dog. But he’d probably eat it.
After the pillows came the furniture and other household goods, every bit of it either shivered to flinders or carried off. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z
“If that iceberg hit us, it would knock us to flinders,” was Chet’s comment, as he viewed the oncoming mass. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z
Well, when he had his fierce fight with Zack Avery’s game rooster that had beaten everything to flinders, and Robinson actually whipped him, we began to think he deserved a medal. Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds 2012-02-27T03:00:13.497Z
When he came home he said, laughing, “That girl up there took the medicine I gave her and pounded the bottle to flinders before my eyes.” The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z
Then he follered 'em up and knocked Cornwallis all to flinders at Princeton! The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z
So the window flew into flinders and I was free. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z
The flames had enveloped his arms, his sleeves were burned to flinders, and his hands were a fearful sight. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z
That horse coming on the outside like a black devil, with his bit almost crunched into flinders, was Jodan. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z
Oh, I had seen these weak and vainglorious vessels go to Life's Niagara before, thinking to fill themselves at it—and had seen the flinders into which they had been dashed. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z
We were all prepared then to knock their boats to flinders as they got in to about here. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z
Sometimes it was a surprise attack on the march, with cavalry sweeping down on limbered guns, sometimes it was artillery formed in triangles, a muzzle at each apex, blowing the advancing cavalry to flinders. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z
Night contracted and expanded, and the sharp sounds, which were not like thunder, might have been the tumbling flinders of night’s roof. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z
I can cut an apple all to flinders. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z
Someone set a big globe of electric light flaring, when, whisk-whisk, a quartette of bullets tore through the shed and knocked it to flinders. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z
But Marcus, he’s bound to get it, even if he has to take the old boat, and tear her to flinders. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z
What remained on Tuesday was almost unrecognizable save a few two-story buildings that inexplicably remained standing as their neighbors were reduced to flinders. Overwhelmed by Toll, Coastal Town Shifts Focus to Survivors 2011-03-15T20:11:30Z
Here was what was called "rockwork," where some granite rib of a mountain or huge rocky knoll was being blown to flinders with dynamite. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z
"Well, I didn't suppose you'd think it necessary to knock over the whole thing into flinders," said Jasper, and lying back against the pillows. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z
I can talk about them now,” and she laughed, “because they are–as Tommy says–‘busted all to flinders.’ Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway
"You have torn my summer's work to flinders," she said, sullenly, looking down at a bit of charcoal she was grinding into the rug beneath her feet. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop
Then—Pouf!—the false flint falls all to flinders, and you are left with the hammer-handle in your fist, and his teeth in your flank! Rewards and Fairies
Its experience has knocked the bugbear of heredity all to flinders. The Children of the Poor
There’s all those chickens drying to flinders in that oil-stove-oven, and that horrid old man talking Mrs. Calvert into a headache. Dorothy on a House Boat
Them balls give it too much power an' it jest naturally went to flinders. Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son
It covered too much of the charging front, and finally was blown to flinders at an expense of four kegs of rifle powder, borrowed for the occasion from the Indian supplies. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade
I’d torn them all to flinders on that slide, or old botched up sled, and she said I was a sight. Dorothy at Oak Knowe
"How about the last day," inquired Si, "over the river on the left, when we tore you all to flinders with artillery, and run you back over the hill and took your guns?" Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign
But it would worry me a good deal more to know that I was knocking the whole plan to flinders. Doubloons—and the Girl
He doesn’t steal or lie much, I grant you, but he smashes all the other commandments to flinders. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7
The big ranches ’ll all be split up to flinders inside of five years.” The Rustler of Wind River
“That’s right––two weeks; and she met him at the”––– He said to himself that here was a little game that beat any other known sport to flinders. Officer 666
"Please don't excite him too much, Bristles," begged Sid, "for he's likely to strain so he'll smash this beautiful harness all to flinders." Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School
A man, facing Philo Gubb’s trusty weapon, felt that if the gun went off he would be utterly and disastrously blown to flinders. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective
Then, indeed, love and remorse, as if they had been dammed back, break forth like a flood, that bursts the very door, and makes it 'in flinders flee.' The Balladists Famous Scots Series
What Peets calls the 252 'concussion' breaks windows in the Wells-Fargo office, an' shakes up the Red Light to that extent it brings down Monte's picture an' busts it to forty flinders on the bottles. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories
And why are the Germans knocking Belgium to flinders and shooting her citizens? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914
Chips and flinders had been knocked by the same forces from the boulders and the rocks. The Dop Doctor
Mostly it flew to flinders almost before she was come. Anthony Lyveden
We was all property mad, and you and me and Wyker run our bluff same as any of ’em, an’ we busted the spirit of the law to flinders. Winning the Wilderness
He jerks out his pipe an' breaks it in flinders ober my head. Burl
"I wish it had stove his old machine all to flinders and him with it," he said to me, revengefully. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine
An old word for splinters; thus Walter Scott's Borderer— "The tough ash-spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
The silver dream shivered into a million flinders. Anthony Lyveden
The next morning, while he was asleep, I got up and wrote a reply, just "tearing it all to flinders." Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings
I’m not sorry for you one bit, because if you had obeyed me you wouldn’t be coming home now with your hand mashed all to flinders. Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country
I’m blowed to flinders if I wouldn’t set my whole pack of dogs on ’em till they would be torn to pieces. Cruel As The Grave
The moon was clear, the day drew near, The spears in flinders flew; And mony a gallant Englishman Ere day the Scotsmen slew. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
"There's Quite So, now," said Strong, "when a Minie-ball comes ping! and knocks one of his guns to flinders, he merely smiles, and does n't at all see the degradation of the thing." Quite So
All the mid section of the wobbly structure was shattered to flinders. Bloom of Cactus
The former had been reported blown to flinders, and his two carefully matched horses killed by the bandits. Patsy
His heart will snap into ten thousand flinders, if you don’t!” sobbed the poor negro, as he shook hands with his young master and mistress. Cruel As The Grave
I want a nice hard rub- ber ball to smash all into flinders, the great big mirror in the hall an' lots an' lots of winders. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
We've got an option on her, too, and just understand we'll buy her in, challenge your crowd to a race, and beat you to flinders! Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
I understood that McGee was feeling bitter against my dad; but I believe the message I'm carrying him will knock all his animosity to flinders. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
When he rushes toward you in this attitude it looks very much as though he were charging you with the purpose of trampling you to flinders. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
A couple of guns planted there could have knocked this cursed rampart to flinders in twenty minutes, or plumped round shot at leisure among the French huddled within. Fort Amity
You are in a position to stand pat and by just doing nothing smash Sledge Hume's little game all to flinders. The Short Cut
Run into us, and broke one of our outriggers to flinders! Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
The flimsy and treacherous blade went to flinders, and the would-be robber was left staring at the guard suddenly grown light in his hand. The Black Douglas
But for the action of the carter, who had stopped his team dead, the car would have been crushed to flinders. Berry And Co.
You'd 'most thought Valentina would have been fussed to flinders about then; but, beyond actin' a little dazed, she don't show it. Wilt Thou Torchy
"There's Quite So, now," said Strong, "when a Minie-ball comes ping! and knocks one of his guns to flinders, he merely smiles, and doesn't at all see the degradation of the thing." Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
"But since his boat has gone to flinders, isn't he out of the game altogether?" demanded Fred. Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
"Couldn't have him round my place, 'cause my house ain't very steady, and I reckon he'd have it kicked all to flinders inside of a week." The Voyage of the Rattletrap
So well tempered was his helm that the blade flew in flinders, shivered to the handle. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
It took her plump in the stern-works, knocking her wheel and taffrail to flinders and ripping out a fair six feet of her larboard bulwarks. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
Yes, sir, it broke the window all to flinders, and out rushed Grandfather Goosey-Gander! Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
The head and all the fore part of the hog had been blown to flinders, and the brush was just festooned with pork. Bears I Have Met—and Others
He pointed the gun carefully, let fly, and knocked the bit of wood to flinders. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
Never desperandum, as the Congressmen say, fer while the lamp holds out to burn you may beat the blackleg all to flinders and sing and shout forever. The End of the World A Love Story
Every eye sought the face of Francine, who, troubled and confused, fell upon the cutlet placed before her and cut it feverishly into flinders. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
I couldn't tell 'ee for sure about that, for I were hit all to flinders, and for a bit they thought I was done for. North, South and over the Sea
There never was a post-office yet that did not rejoice in knocking a man's Sabbath into flinders. Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
"So that a trifle would reduce it to flinders," said Mrs. Purcell, without minding his interruption. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
The metal good and the walnut wood   Did soon in flinders flee;They tost the orts to south and north,   And grappled knee to knee. Andromeda and Other Poems
Then—Pouf!—-the false flint falls all to flinders, and you are left with the hammer-handle in your fist, and his teeth in your flank! Rewards and Fairies
The other evening I sent an arrow slam-bang into the lantern, and broke it all to flinders. The Magic Egg and Other Stories
"Yes, Paul's got a scheme that'll knock all these wildcat ones just to flinders, see if it don't," remarked Tom Betts, waving his hands to enforce silence. The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island
His thought was, at the ripest moment of her frosty indifference, to make her palace of ice fly in flinders about her. There & Back
Two headlights and two cow-catchers went to flinders, and the two trains stood there with horns locked, but no great damage done, except a shaking up for a lot of panic-stricken passengers. The Face and the Mask
Perhaps it has reached the open Polar Sea, and is butting itself into flinders against the ice-cakes. Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures
The moon was clear, the day drew near,   The spears in flinders flew; And many a gallant Englishman   Ere day the Scotsmen slew. Ballad Book
"I declare, I really expected to hear you knock my idea all to flinders," he remarked. The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island
With this, the giant swung and twirled his club aloft and then brought it down on a poor countryman's cart, smashing it into flinders. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
Who could the man be who could beat an ash stave to flinders at a single blow? Hereward, the Last of the English
It smashes into flinders, the marble dust combines with the sulphuric acid, and forms a neutral liquid, bubbling with carbonic acid. Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures
"It's to swear to stand by one another, and never tell the gang's secrets, even if you're chopped all to flinders, and kill anybody and all his family that hurts one of the gang." The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8.
If he's going to dream about cats going mad, and bust our nice sleep all to flinders in this way, why give him that small tent to himself. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
She would have been glad to have a suit-case full of bombs to blow those snobbish residences into flinders. We Can't Have Everything
And he smote so hard, that the lance-but flew to flinders against Winchester Gate. Hereward, the Last of the English
Mandarin returned blow for blow, until he kicked the waggon all to flinders. Nature and Human Nature
You know we thought once before she had gone to flinders, but it wasn't so. The Motor Boys on the Pacific Or, the Young Derelict Hunters
The waves was dashing on it fearful, and I knew if I tried to land I'd be dashed to flinders. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent
I’d just about reached the stage where I had the girl and boy stove to flinders under that pesky auto. Cap'n Warren's Wards
But that arrow never left the string; it shattered to flinders where it was and fell tinkling to the marble floor. Red Eve
Then they heard a crash loud enough to send a thrill through the Circus, and, quicker than thought, out over the course a spray of shining white and yellow flinders flew. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ
The bonny ship in flinders flew, And drooned was the bonny Queen. New Collected Rhymes
The moon was clear, the day drew near,The spears in flinders flew,But mony a gallant EnglishmanEre day the Scotsmen slew. A Collection of Ballads
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