| 单词 | go to pieces |
| 例句 | He was pleased with himself for thinking things out, and not going to pieces, like Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z An old memory surfaced of the doctor telling Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If her mother ever found out who the real bomber was, she'd really go to pieces. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She would make a little gain and then go to pieces. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe, but you have the advantage that no one can see you’re embarrassed. You don’t blush or go to pieces.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Presently he stood in front of her door, rapping with the edge of the wine bottle, his heart going to pieces inside his chest. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z And then everything seemed to go to pieces. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie went to pieces and remorse rose in her like bitter flood waters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I am afraid that’s true,’ said Merry, ‘though I don’t know what I said. I had an ugly dream, which I can’t remember. I went to pieces. I don’t know what came over me.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Kaz had sworn he could get her off this island, but Kaz’s first plan had gone to pieces—maybe this one would, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The doctor once told Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They had kept it too long and it had gone to pieces and lost its quality and color. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Neville regularly went to pieces in Potions lessons; it was his worst subject, and his great fear of Professor Snape made things ten times worse. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z And if she goes to pieces, his neck's in danger! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z But she’s not sorry at all, I’m sure of it, and I don’t want to go to pieces in front of her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Words he’d overheard from the doctor came back to him: Clones go to pieces when they get older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But I would have gone to pieces had they laughed or even smiled, I thought, for they couldn't laugh at him without laughing at me as well . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "Civilization's going to pieces," broke out Tom violently. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “I do miss them. They were good people. Not huggers or the types to go to pieces over loving someone. But good people.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Why had he gone to pieces like that, when no one else had? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When she cried her whole face went to pieces. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a Friday when it all went to pieces very quickly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When things get beyond him he throws up the sponge altogether; he just goes to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked to my room and shut the door, slammed it really, so I could be free to go to pieces privately. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The younger bakers – remember Ruby Tandoh last year? – sometimes go to pieces when the pressure mounts. 'The Great British Bake Off': Five Early Contenders Emerge After Episode 2 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z “Our world goes to pieces,” Anni Albers would write in her notebooks. The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He goes to pieces and has a drink. TV review: Bad Santas 2012-12-17T22:10:01Z It was like watching an old friend, whom you hadn't seen in a long time, slowly going to pieces. The king is dead: a classic Elvis Presley tribute from the vaults 2012-08-15T09:57:29Z That emotion with the person you love, that butterfly feeling in your stomach, that beating heart, that feeling of going to pieces or of being so strong. This is what being in love looks like – in pictures 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z I don't know if you would call it a breakdown, I don't like to call it a breakdown, but I went to pieces after it and have only recently got my confidence back. Julie Myerson: a life in writing 2013-03-22T17:17:00Z The weekend became a vicious, drunken nightmare, Mr. Steadman recalls, and he and Thompson went to pieces. Ralph Steadman and His Art Star in ‘For No Good Reason’ 2014-04-18T20:58:38Z Macdonald, a scholar at Cambridge University, went to pieces after her father died, and in her mourning she did something unexpected: she purchased a goshawk. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,” the German theologian Martin Luther said, “I would still plant my apple tree.” Now you seafood, now you don’t: 10 foods climate change could soon eradicate 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Quartet is not bleakly comic like Ending Up, Kingsley Amis's bitter tale of a tight group of old folk going to pieces in one another's isolated company. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z He longs to be a comedian, but goes to pieces on stage. Joker review – Joaquin Phoenix’s villain has last laugh in twisted tale 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree and it all goes to pieces. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z The miracle is their ability to function at all, and to not go to pieces when every move hangs between life and death. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge”: Religious Pomp Laced with Pornographic Violence 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Fatalism set in as the Alexandrians, lionhearted as always, mostly went to pieces. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 5: Be Patient and Tough 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The night’s offering was “Bookworms,” a new comedy by the homegrown playwright Bernard Farrell about a women’s book club that goes to pieces when the assorted husbands are invited along one night. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z Meat pies are more familiar, colonial descendants of Cornish pasties, flaking and caving without going to pieces. Meals for (Mostly) Everyone at Divine Flavored Nigerian Food Truck 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “Boiling Point,” written and directed by Philip Barantini, tells the story of a rising London chef’s worst night — a night when his life is going to pieces as his restaurant is coming to ruin. ‘Boiling Point’ Review: The Worst Night in the Life of a Restaurant 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z You sit there saying nothing while the world is going to pieces. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z “To let the baby out,” she writes, prefiguring Christle’s riff on decomposition, and also making it painfully literal, “you have to be willing to go to pieces.” “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z But when he's faced with his own emotions, he goes to pieces. The Love and Death of Caterina by Andrew Nicoll ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:07Z Someday, however, the church will go to pieces. 6 European Countries, 9 Days, 0 Planes 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The first day of filming we were up near Sandy on the A1, and I came face to face with his mother and she just burst into tears and went to pieces. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z I freely admit that despite having an analytical mind and a difficult character, in that sort of situation I go to pieces. The Birthday Party and the Airman by ?ukasz D?bski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2011-04-08T10:22:00Z It’s simultaneously uptight and gone to pieces, lakeside and volcanic. ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Review: A Tangled Web of Human Impulse 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z He recalled Ms. Howland, in the musical, “going to pieces in front of the audience’s eyes.” Beth Howland, Accident-Prone Waitress From the Sitcom ‘Alice,’ Dies at 74 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z It's got Russell Crowe as a disreputable mayor, gulping neat scotch at his desk and complaining that "civilsation's gone to pieces". Broken City – review 2013-02-28T21:40:01Z “To let the baby out, you have to be willing to go to pieces,” she writes of childbirth. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Life Stories 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z A brilliant bunch, they’re nonetheless going to pieces, and pulling them back together has become Winter’s task — as well as the primary tension of this 600-page novel. A shattered family seeks rebirth in Jess Row's magnificent new novel, 'The New Earth' 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z "You might go to pieces afterwards. But on the scene, you've got to be calm and collected, to get on and do the job that you're there to do." Queen’s funeral: Community volunteers get ‘surprise’ invitations 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z After opening a 24-0 lead barely 19 minutes into the game, the Chargers went to pieces with three turnovers in allowing the Bengals to score 22 consecutive points. Chargers start fast, unravel, and then get it together on defense to beat Bengals 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z "I went to pieces, I was hysterical. I wrote my funeral plan. It's been really hard," Ms Morrison said. Isle of Man woman hit with £24,000 bill for UK NHS care 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z What do you do while stuck at home during a pandemic and the world outside seems to be going to pieces? Two new wine clubs give diversity and inclusion the same attention as what’s in the bottle 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z He said, his mother, once a happy go lucky woman, "went to pieces" and was never the same after losing her son. Ballymurphy shootings: Who were the victims? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z But according to my father, "Everything is falling into ruin. It's all going to pieces, nobody is living there and it's just becoming desolate." Why my ancestral home could be lost to climate change 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Everything went to pieces after David Bowie died. Opinion | What Would David Bowie Do? 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z A quiet flying officer, whose last assignment with the R.A.F. was to train navy pilots—“We’d get them started out right, and then they’d go to pieces”—doesn’t bustle about very much. Quite possibly the rudest club in the world? - Golf Digest 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “After they killed him, everything went to pieces.” The Making of Lebanon’s October Revolution 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z "My mummy went to pieces, we all went to pieces, it was like a nightmare you were never wakening from, we just found it so hard to cope," Ms McCarry said. Ballymurphy shootings: Who were the victims? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z A few months later, though, when a guy he’d met on Tinder broke things off, Brown, as he put it, “totally went to pieces.” How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “Civilization’s going to pieces,” broke out Tom violently. When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z And then: “I’m afraid this book is going to pieces. If it does, I do too.” 'My nerves are going fast': The Grapes of Wrath’s hard road to publication 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z I’ve been a human cataract plunging through a noose and going to pieces on the rocks. “Visiting San Francisco” 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z While Roosevelt campaigned in 1912 to return to the presidency, prominent US historian Henry Adams said: "His mind has gone to pieces… his neurosis may end in a nervous collapse, or acute mania." The mental rigours of being US president 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The freedom to act freely means the freedom to screw up royally, a theme that Rosebrock touches on in the play’s second half, when things, somewhat predictably, go to pieces. Rage and Recovery in “Blue Ridge” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z After the Rothko room, the exhibition goes to pieces. The Inflation of Abstraction 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The idea that fruitful research relations built over decades might go to pieces is “dismaying and heartbreaking”, says James Conroy, vice-principal for internationalization at the University of Glasgow, which hopes to establish such partnerships. British universities set up European outposts as Brexit looms 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z “Yes, I know that the world is going to pieces, and that the prowess of three gifted players doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world,” Krauthammer wrote. Charles Krauthammer found sweet relief away from politics: With the Washington Nationals 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The alternative, he writes, is to remain “an adult two-year old” who goes to pieces in the face of any adversity and for whom “softness and harmlessness become the only consciously acceptable virtues.” Jordan Peterson and Conservatism’s Rebirth 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Nick Tropeano's start went to pieces in the third, when the Rays sent all nine hitters to the plate. Angels' slump continues with another loss to the Rays 8-3 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for the home team and its fans, everything eventually went to pieces because of one decision that turned sour. Angels can't hold off Twins, give up three runs in ninth and lose 5-4 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z For two years, Ms. Ortega thrived at the job, but then, in April 2012, she began to go to pieces emotionally, her family members testified. ‘It Was Not Herself That Killed Them,’ Sister Testifies in Nanny Trial 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “I would just go to pieces,” the Southern Methodist University junior told The Dallas Morning News . Special keyboards at SMU help musicians with small hands 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “I would just go to pieces,” the Southern Methodist University junior told The Dallas Morning News . Special keyboards at SMU help musicians with small hands 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z They had poured billions into rebuilding the Iraqi army after 2003, only to see much of it go to pieces under pressure because so much was wrong with its foundations. Islamic State group: The full story 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But when temperatures reach into triple digits, people go to pieces. Heat wave hits Portland, and a laid-back city withers. Welcome to 'Hotlandia' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “There was no way the goalkeeper was going to try to stick one on me, and after that Barcelona just went to pieces,” McNaught later explained. How England's first wave of heavy metal football conquered Europe | Paul Doyle 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z AUGUSTA, Ga. — Eleven holes into his round at the Masters on Friday, the first-round leader Charley Hoffman seemed to be going to pieces. 2017 Masters: Sergio García Shares Lead After Scoring Mishap 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “Hope laughs harder than anyone — he goes to pieces when i hit him. But Carson’s a great slave and he never gets mad.” A 1967 interview with Don Rickles, the ever-busy insult comic who never writes anything down 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “He went to pieces,” said fellow local artist Jacob Kainen, according to an essay in the show’s catalogue by onetime National Gallery of Art curator E.A. Enter a universe of dappled color in Howard Mehring show at AU museum 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?” Lincoln asked a special session of Congress, that July. When Presidents Think About Defying the Courts 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z We all know about the seventies: the system went to pieces, ridership and revenue plunged, and the Warriors came out to play. The Second Avenue Subway Is Here! 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “If you are absolutely raw, are going to pieces, don’t trust your family and don’t trust yourself, maybe this isn’t a good time to gamble with your family relationships,” said conflict resolution specialist Andra Medea. Can family trump Trump? How to survive political disagreements with relatives this Thanksgiving 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z For the record, a picture of an ape holding a kitten is all it takes for me to go to pieces; that is my bias. 'Koko, the Gorilla Who Talks,' still controversial, still intriguing 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z But on Friday, the plan went to pieces. Even Deontay Wilder, an Untainted Boxer, Loses Out in a Doping Scandal 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Faces in a crowd terrify me - they jump out, familiar for an instant, and I go to pieces. Shandra Woworuntu: My life as a sex-trafficking victim - BBC News 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z "Every time I hear it I go to pieces," she gushes. Why Sergei Rachmaninoff continues to enthral - BBC News 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Martin Luther, the great Protestant reformer, once said: “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Faith and science can find common ground 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Pinot famously went to pieces on the descent off the Col de Pailhères during the 2013 Tour, later admitting that he was terrified of racing downhill the way some people feared spiders. Chills, Spills as Tour Hits Col d’Allos Descent 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Deep in Hell, in the ninth ring of the eighth circle, Dante encounters a group of souls who have gone to pieces. A Papal Message That Spares No One 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z "I was working at the time and I just went to pieces basically, it was so shocking. "I just couldn't believe what I was hearing," she said. " North West 200: Spectator Violet McAfee injured in 'freak accident' - BBC News 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z One day, a meter maid approached him and he went to pieces. Still haunted by our racist past 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z They shot lights-out in the first half in building a 41-30 lead, then went to pieces in the second half, as the Cowboys outscored them 37-31 en route to a 67-62 victory. Jayhawks in search of consistency as they enter stretch run 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Ladd continues: “It looked wicked to see such splendid furniture go to pieces. … Crash followed crash, and all of the comforts and luxuries of a splendid home were soon in ruins.” 150 years on, Sherman’s March to Sea still vivid 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Gravity soon brought it to ground, and it slowly went to pieces on the way down, almost as if it were re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. IIT's Pumpkin Launch doesn't put any fruit into orbit 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The girls just went to pieces, and I just felt as a mum, this was the time I couldn't do anything to help them. The deaths uniting women across the world 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z They policed it and kept the peace there when the rest of the country was going to pieces. Quora Question: Who Is Responsible for the Mess in Iraq? And the scrolls tended to go to pieces. Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum 2013-12-20T01:06:52Z Take him out and they go to pieces. MLS week eleven: Previews and reviews 2013-05-10T13:00:00Z And so when José is in the room we all go to pieces. Only surprise about Mourinho's return is people think it's a good idea 2013-05-03T13:00:01Z The team's defence went to pieces that day, without the considerable presence and competitive courage of their captain. Premier League preview No8: Manchester United 2012-08-09T12:00:01Z "It turned my stomach right over, and I really went to pieces." Bomber Command in their own words 2012-06-27T08:08:28Z Some players respond well if you talk calmly to them privately, but will go to pieces if confronted in an aggressive, public manner. Advice for the sports captain, advice for the captain of industry 2012-06-22T21:00:01Z The problem is highlighted, in a baseball context, by Chad Harbach's recent novel The Art of Fielding, about a talented young shortstop whose game goes to pieces. Anthony Quinn: cricket and the novel 2012-05-25T21:55:14Z By an adherence to these simple principles, the Empire has held together for thousands of years, while every other nation has gone to pieces. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The existence of evil in a world created by a perfect God is the rock upon which all religions go to pieces. Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z I suppose you know that he has gone to pieces?' I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z And I'm not one to go to pieces, either. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The party went to pieces at Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas, but its members reached Oregon somewhat in driblets during that year, and the one following. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z More than one large ship went to pieces on the wild coast; and fragments of wrecks were washed ashore at Brent and in Edge Bay. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Under this unaccustomed mode of life, Lola's health went to pieces. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Previously to the vessel striking on the rock which rent her asunder, and upon which she went to pieces, passengers and seamen all ran up for self-preservation on the quarter-deck. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z And if she by her own deliberate act went to pieces morally, could she play up? Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The first struck on a ledge of rocks off Nova Zembla, and Wood had scarcely time to get the bread and carpenter’s tools ashore before she went to pieces. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z This building went to pieces about six o'clock. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z According to the papers, poor Mrs. Maillard has gone to pieces. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z At the time of her going up she did not appear to make more resistance than a bag of feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered egg-shell.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z And now, at the sight of you, prince—a man from Miroslav—I seem to be going to pieces altogether. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z It was over the vol au vent that he began to go to pieces. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z I am the one who picks up the remnants of all the ministers and favorites who go to pieces in the Queen's palace. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z The pier has gone to pieces, and the old locomotive could be seen partly buried in the sand not far from the head of the ruined pier. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z So circumstanced, a violent gale, together with the tide, drove the vessel into the Bristol Channel, and she struck upon the above sands, and in the space of two or three hours went to pieces. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z I was told they were going to pieces for want of correction. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Was his heart in the right place, or, under the tremendous strain of a critical game, would he go to pieces? Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z The spars were either bent or carried away; and, as they attempted to hoist the mainsail, it went to pieces. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z After the whaler went to pieces, another vessel came along—a small ship bound for Nova Scotia, the Evans, and she took six of the crew with her, and among those was your father.” First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z The channels are intricate among these islands, and must be hit with the nicest precision, or a strong vessel would go to pieces at the first blow on the sharp rocks. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Later it was purchased by a farmer, who set it upon wheels and conveyed it to his farm some miles distant, where it has decayed and gone to pieces. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z Both the infield and outfield seemed to go to pieces all at once. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z “Sure!” his mates assured him, and it did seem possible, for Morningside appeared to have gone to pieces. Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z Yes, I left here eight days ago, after I had heard of a whaler that had gone to pieces in the ice. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z In time, they passed Tobago, and in their clumsy, ignorant navigation, while it was blowing hard, ran on an uninhabited cay on which the ship went to pieces, and only two lives were saved. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z He told her horrible stories about how women went to pieces in the sweat-shops, how they got "bad lungs," or went blind, or had things happen to them inside. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The way things had turned out, he couldn't go to the major's any more, and now his railroad organization was beginning to go to pieces on him. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z My ship has gone to pieces; all my creditors are urgent, and will not hear of delay; my whole happiness depends on this one day; do just lend me ten thousand sequins for a time. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z One more had gone to pieces, and the parts had been used for mending purposes, as before. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Instantly there came on a terrific storm, the ship went to pieces, and nearly all who were on board perished. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z The "Other Solution" proved to be a very modern kind of nerve specialist, whose own nerves were going to pieces because of overwork and the cooking of an absinthe-drinking Frenchwoman. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Everything has gone to pieces on the railroad, and all of Mr. Norcross's friends are getting ready to resign. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z You give one the impression that they've gone to pieces long ago. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z They had spent the day in mending the sledge, which was in danger of going to pieces, and in fixing up their foot coverings, which were woefully ragged. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Once divided, and panic-stricken by finding their foes at the heart of their array, the herds went to pieces hopelessly, and were easily driven off toward all points of the compass. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The carts are chiefly made of sticks and wickerwork; they are, of course, very slight, and indeed if they were not so they would soon go to pieces owing to the jolting. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z She soon went to pieces, as also a schooner which accompanied her. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z There are not many men who could live as he does; the rest would go to pieces. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The old vessel afterwards went to pieces in the river. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z If the mistress is not about," she would say, "all the house goes to pieces. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Fearing that she would go to pieces, he started with fifteen sailors to swim ashore—he alone was saved—he says he is much practised in swimming. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The enemy in terror ran ashore, and went to pieces in two hours. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z That bank which went to pieces, and broke up homes and hearts? The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z The chair went to pieces without touching the glass, so Alex. took up a slender leg and, poking it through in between the metal work, punched out the pane. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z We know that we are being driven foot by foot, and that when we break back once more, the line will go to pieces and the enemy will pour through the gap. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z There were men in this great war who "went to pieces" simply because they tried to do everything themselves. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Friends, it seems to me we may as well all confess that this Church has gone to pieces. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Hold me, somebody, or I will go to pieces. Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z It was now evident that the ship must go to pieces in a few minutes, and that to remain in it would be certain death. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z Courtesy and a certain measure of good faith are essential elements wherever civilized men come in direct contact; without them organized society would go to pieces. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z On the fourteenth of September we got jammed in the ice, and the Cotopaxi went to pieces. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z This object surrendered, the organization would go to pieces. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z Under such usage an iron rail would have gone to pieces long ago. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z But we'll score big in the quarter, I think; and if I don't go to pieces in the mile, we might get something there, too. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z What was the ninth letter, the alphabetical rock upon which my fine theory had gone to pieces? In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z The two parties had been made nearly equal in Congress by the election of 1848; but the proportion was changed four years later, to two to one, and the beaten party soon went to pieces. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z In the original boards they went to pieces very quickly and the paper was of such a character that they were hard to rebind. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z During the Seven Years War, when Frederick was driven to a depreciation of his coinage, his system went to pieces. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z If Syria goes to pieces, Lebanon may be up for grabs as well. On Christmas, an Israeli Village Tries to Revive the Language of Jesus 2011-12-23T12:06:43Z Many a teachers' meeting goes to pieces for lack of something to tie to. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z I hate to see things go to pieces, and they want a man to show them how the settlement should be run. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z My own farm would in that case go to pieces, and that I cannot let happen. South-African Folk-Tales 2011-12-20T03:00:27.703Z If—if only you hadn’t let yourself go to pieces like this!’” The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z I learned from the same man that the steamship company, Castell and Mart�, had gone to pieces, and that both partners were involved in a ruinous lawsuit. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z In summer I can get a splendid rent for the place, tiny as it is, if only I can find some one to keep it from going to pieces in the meantime. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z I’d put her on the beach here, only that she’d go to pieces with the first shift of wind to the westward.” The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z We saw her go to pieces before our eyes, for no boat could be lowered. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z When the ship went to pieces the pilot-house was shattered, and a portion of it floated away and lodged against the rocks near the shore. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z From then on the Darewell eleven seemed to go to pieces, and they lost the game. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z The wreckage would be sure to be salvaged by farmers who would otherwise have to buy wood from him, so he would be a double loser in case the raft went to pieces. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Chamberlain would soon bring it under the control of instructions, that is, would convert it into a democratic engine, and the empire, I apprehend, would go to pieces. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The crew went to pieces and lost the race for the lack of precisely that burst of energy for which American athletes, and Yale in particular, are remarkable. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z I suppose he thinks I would go to pieces if he told me the truth.' Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z And there must also be a soul, or else the body goes to pieces; every one knows that institutions without the spirit of them are dead.... John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Once he had been seen to sink when his raft had gone to pieces in Hell Gate, and he had been mourned as dead for a fortnight. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z I would lie awake all night, and it would seem to me that I could feel my body going to pieces—an extremely depressing sensation! The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z In the race the crew, like the earlier Harvard crew, went to pieces when they were called on for a spurt—the test of nerve force in reserve—and were beaten in wretchedly slow time. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z I remember my own folly in wishing to return home after I came out of the hospital at Rio; and my general greenness and incapacity as a naturalist afterwards, with my eyes gone to pieces. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The organization decayed and the business went to pieces. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z So far, indeed, they had not come upon any tools except the rusty axe, for tool-chests probably sank at once on the outer banks where the ships went to pieces. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Number Two's gone to pieces, and Fred Baker is caught in the fall! The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z Well, I couldn't so much as make you a sign—my correspondence had so utterly gone to pieces on the spot. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Every little while James's sleep would "go to pieces," and he would go off to Newport, the Adirondacks, or elsewhere, for a few days. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z “Thank goodness we are not rheumatic, or gone to pieces, to have to come here to be mended again,” declared Julie. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z It was the Captain himself who tied me to that mast when everything was going to pieces. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z At last it went to pieces, and Said managed to cling to the mast. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z If we make a mistake and touch, we shall go to pieces in five minutes. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did. Which Way Home?: How a Financial Pro Lost His House 2011-11-09T05:00:06Z Nor did the latter team “go to pieces.” The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Up and down they swung, and round and round, bumping and grinding till they feared the raft would go to pieces. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z The military organization of the empire had gone to pieces, and we no longer hear of the old “Themes” of heavy cavalry which had formed its backbone. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z Poor Tom went to pieces more than once in the days that followed—dreadful days of panic and despair. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z Organized Protestantism is fast going to pieces, and unless the next Pope opens wide the door of the church to the wandering flocks they will be led away into poisonous pastures. Leo XIII., the Great Leader 2011-10-12T02:00:51.183Z Because Miss Lawrence had put her out of the game Hester would have been glad to know that her team mates had gone to pieces and been defeated. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z It went to pieces on the nearest bank, as he watched, and swept away in fragments. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Andronicus was wounded early in the day, and his army, deprived of its leader went to pieces and was severely beaten. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z "I think—they didn't tell me, but I think they mean to drag the pond—" She went to pieces there. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z A week later the poor old Sea-mew was broken up by a gale, but after she went to pieces we managed to secure some casks of provisions, and several useful articles. The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z But the Lumberport girls played well, too; they did not “go to pieces” because the visitors’ efforts were crowned with success. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Ye gods, how these sentimentalists go to pieces under the influence of a bit of a girl! The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z “The whole shebang will go to pieces and the boys will be killed.” Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z He showed no sign of going to pieces. Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield 2011-09-22T02:00:24.220Z Why had she let me see her all caught-up and wise and able to bear, as she had shown herself on that first memorable night, and then gone to pieces like this? The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z He felt afraid to let his whole weight come down on it and expected it to go to pieces in his hand, it felt so flimsy. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z We were stunned, and in spite of my philosophy I went to pieces as I had never done in my life. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Their former clothing had gone to pieces, and they were dressed in sheepskin coats with the wool outside. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z So badly shattered was she that, having stranded a few miles from the fort, and a gale having sprung up, she went to pieces. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z Before the Norman conquest the old English verse had begun to go to pieces, in spite of such excellent late examples as the Maldon poem. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The dhow was already bumping fearfully on the reef and rapidly going to pieces. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Of what use," it might be argued, "can it be to uphold the standard when all is gone to pieces? The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z It was a beastly cropper—this wedding mess—and I've gone to pieces over it, for I did love Rosamond awfully. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z "Is the fool going to pieces?" was the captain's harrowing thought. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z I served with the full hetman; but the squadron went to pieces, for we had nothing to eat. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Then the craft which held us began going to pieces, until a few of us were left on the raft pieced together of its fragments. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z "The whole thing would go to pieces without her," thrust in the secretary, in the sudden falsetto with which she always impressed upon Sir Piers her recollection of his increasing deafness. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z If the ball is moved three inches to the right all at once the entire swing is upset and the whole driving arrangement is likely to go to pieces. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z He’ll pitch fine for several innings and then go to pieces. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z But Mark got over that difficulty by supposing that they fetched them from the wreck before it went to pieces. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z You speak of the last judgment,--and I think it will come soon, for everything is going to pieces; wickedness rises above virtue, and antichrist is walking through the world. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z “The lookout would come in to the station and say, ‘There’s a two-master going to pieces on the bar.’ Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z One small inaccuracy and your game goes to pieces. Chess: Shrewd moves to enhance winning chances 2011-08-08T20:30:01Z He knew he must hold himself well in hand or he would go to pieces. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z I really believe I should have gone to pieces if it hadn't been for my writing. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z One imagines a pair of pilots haplessly nodding off as their jet goes to pieces around them. The myth of the pilotless commercial plane: Make it stop! 2011-08-04T20:01:00Z You can’t tell,”—she nodded to Ruggles, as though she were herself a matron of forty,—“you can not tell what their temptations are or what comes up to make them go to pieces.” The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z He would not see that noble ship go to pieces on the rocks! The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z The result was that he went to pieces through sheer weariness and began giving balls. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z The coast is very dangerous, and many a ship has struck and gone to pieces on the treacherous rocks in sight of the castle. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z "If I let even one nerve tendril slack, Colonel, I would go to pieces entirely," Stein said precisely, in the way a man speaks who has learned the language from text books. Progress Report 2011-07-29T02:00:31.957Z Occupation, changed habits, taking in of confidence, faith and courage thoughts—these changes are necessary to the victim of melancholia, or he will shatter his health on the danger rocks and go to pieces. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z It appeared to me that the Union was about to go to pieces, before the people were at all aware of the extent of the danger. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Well, we’ll win, I think, if Sam doesn’t go to pieces.” Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z Unhappy children mature early; you have been in spite of all my love, a very unhappy child, Victor, and you have long since known exactly why my life went to pieces. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z They found enough evidence in the drift-wood on the beach to show them where the vessel had gone to pieces; but whether it was the Erebus or the Terror, there was nothing to show. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z The test of high character is the amount of freedom it will absorb without going to pieces. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Before they started away the lighthouse had gone to pieces. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z Without him the army would go to pieces, and the rebellion ended. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z I believe the college would simply go to pieces without Mrs. Edwin Green.” Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z One of these bricks has already gone to pieces, being entirely disintegrated by the corrosive influence of the London atmosphere. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Goodness knows I didn't want to see his game go to pieces behind the Big Four—I didn't want to play behind them myself. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Isn't it awful to let a place like this go to pieces so? Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z If a finger or two remains, that can work its way up to the surface, those cheap deal coffins go to pieces quick enough. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z He went ashore, but he did not quite go to pieces. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Villalobos died in the Moluccas, where the enterprise went to pieces. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Once it started it jes’ flew down the slope, and went to pieces at the bottom with a smash. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z The Revenge struck upon a reef of rocks, and went to pieces. Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey 2011-07-04T02:00:24.047Z Just at that point the play began to go to pieces because the author had misjudged, or not at all considered, the relation of the public to his material. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z He reached the boy, and endeavoured to raise himself upon the ice-mass;--at the same moment it went to pieces, and both the fisherman and the boy disappeared for some seconds. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Tom's courage, as we have seen, went to pieces on hearing it definitely whispered that the universe was about to be wiped out in consequence of his bad habits. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z Seems he had the privilege of rehearsing her for a five-side part in that punk show of Jack Matthias', that went to pieces out on the Coast last Summer. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z I had to keep out of doors and keep moving, or go to pieces. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Many and many a play containing good characterization, good dialogue and some real individuality of treatment has gone to pieces in this way. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z With such miserable disunion at home, Germany would have gone to pieces and ceased to exist, but for the powerful participation of England and Holland in the war. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z Here, in radium, man could see atoms going to pieces. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z The raft struck upon the first island and went to pieces. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z If we take The Eve of St Agnes as intended to be a faithful picture from the Middle Ages, it simply goes to pieces in the line— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z "What happens when I work at home is that the first hour is productive and then I start going to pieces," wrote Financial Times work commentator Lucy Kellaway in a column in December. Why can't everyone just work from home? 2011-06-02T10:19:44Z "And went to pieces in New York," she added calmly, finishing her glass of champagne. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z In other words, this material radium was actually going to pieces. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z The old boom swung on and on, and, passing Spencer's bay, broke and went to pieces on the shore. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z But I am still the veriest shadow of a man—my nerves are gone to pieces—and he warns me that it will take months to effect a cure. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z These men would step into prominent stores and, after a short business talk, incidentally mention my name and then impart the information that my show had disbanded and gone to pieces. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z He, however, was rather erratic, and liable to go to pieces in a crisis. The Rover Boys on a Tour or Last Days at Brill College 2011-05-24T02:00:14.887Z Ten to one she goes to pieces on the breakers before ever sighting land again, and a hundred to ninety-nine her cargo is thrown overboard before she reaches mid-sea. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z On the completion of the canal it broke loose from its moorings, floated away and disappeared, in all probability going to pieces in the rough waters of the lake. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z With a rising sea there was immediate danger of her going to pieces, and in her crowded condition the consequent loss of life would have been too terrible to think of. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z It took it out in squeaking and did not go to pieces as I for a moment feared it would, but settled down into submission. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z Instead, these dashing Confederates went to pieces on Baldwin's brigade, of Johnson, and on Palmer's front. Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. 2011-05-10T02:00:58.760Z I am so wretched—the world is going to pieces—and I am clinging to you as the one rock of safety, the sole refuge that will not fail me. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Passengers and crew alike knew the spot, and they knew that unless some miracle prevailed the ship must go to pieces. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z He left everything here to go to pieces.” The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House 2011-04-27T02:00:27.420Z Now it is not so difficult to come down on a few offenders, but when a whole school goes to pieces what is the one in command to do? Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z Mr. Moody prayed that their business might go to pieces, which it did in a very few months. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z He's pretty desperate, and since the compact between the suitors has gone to pieces he knows he will have to show his hand pretty soon. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z It was the first shock—the thought of everything going to pieces. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Colonel Wobbles told me this morning, that if he resigned the army would all go to pieces. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z I am breaking up at last more rapidly, for up to this the planking has been too tough; but I am now bumping heavily, and, please God, must soon go to pieces. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Tony will wipe the blunder out when he has you to prompt him, but I think he would go to pieces if you sent him away. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z “I hope it won’t be a repetition of that awful night on the plains last summer, when the ‘Comet’ went to pieces so completely,” Miss Campbell remarked. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z But I warn you that this enterprise would soon go to pieces if it had no better wits than mine back of it. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z One window aboard the Pot Luck and several on the Lounger went to pieces, the jingle of broken glass adding to the confusion. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z “We belonged to the specialty company that went to pieces last night,” explained Leo, who had roused up. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z They might have increased trouble in reaching the strong-room, but it was something to know that the wreck had not gone to pieces in their absence. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Billy Kane seemed suddenly to go to pieces and to lose his nerve. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z A large vessel has struck on the rocks in the bay: each moment it is expected she must go to pieces. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Hardly had the exchange been made than their house went to pieces. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z This bullet was rammed into the pistol so forcibly that it went to pieces beneath the paper. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z There was, however, something puzzling in Clay’s determined attempt to break into the strong-room while the ship was going to pieces. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z If he has kept the proper line, everything goes well, but, should he, by accident even, go beyond his own proper boundary, then the ball of earth, of its own accord, goes to pieces. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z The Leraysville Phalanx went to pieces in a grumble about the management. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z What became of the woman and the other child he never knew, as shortly after the waves broke over the vessel, and she went to pieces. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z Even if it had not gone to pieces the firing of the weapon would have shattered it. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z The vessel was old and unseaworthy, and went to pieces in a violent storm encountered off the coast of Lower California. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z We believe the church as an organization would go to pieces but for clergymen and those who are interested in keeping it alive in order to get a living out of it. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z At Chimney Point the rollers were breaking in especial violence over the black rocks, on which one of the galleons of the Armada went to pieces. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z I’m gone to pieces in every part of me. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z Something cracked in it and began to go to pieces, and a dreadful human shriek resounded through the workroom.... More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z On making a fifth attempt to tow out with her five boats, she touched and went to pieces on the reef. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z I see other women going to pieces in the most extraordinary manner. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z About the year 1840 it seemed clear that Turkey was going to pieces, and that the break-up of her empire was only a matter of time. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Then quarrels and confusion would arise; there would be no unity of purpose; divided authority would prevail, and France would go to pieces. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z We must look about for arms; I saw large pieces of the wreck drifting this way after the crazy old craft went to pieces. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Bad weather came on, and when I got back to Arnu, the fellow told me that a big canoe had come down from the Radacks and reported that the barque had gone to pieces. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z For long it has been thought that Austria-Hungary would go to pieces on the death of Franz Josef, and that Austria would then be included in the German Empire. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z With this appalling backsliding of Anne Watson's the whole religious and social fabric seemed suddenly going to pieces. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z The girl made a fool of herself, and the man weakened and nearly went to pieces. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Guys breakup, breakdown, go to pieces lots of different ways. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z The party of order, as it calls itself, goes to pieces through the very conditions created by itself. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z He's almost sure to miss his first tiger; nerves go to pieces generally. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z In taking the field always wear new clothing as it may be some time before you are again supplied, and old clothing on field service goes to pieces rapidly. Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training 2011-02-03T03:00:09.473Z Molly Wycherly's dance went to pieces because she was fool enough to trust things to you. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z She was sorry she could not see inside very well to look at Tom's housekeeping, and was afraid to touch the egg lest his castle should go to pieces. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z Simple Americanism goes to pieces like the pot of basil in this always expanding tale of a development. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z It used to hook up with the planking at the entranceway, but it went to pieces. Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z The measure was to be presented to-morrow—but our men have gone to pieces!” The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z For God's sake let that likeness protect— I—oh, my head's all gone to pieces! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z I feel as if I'm about to go to pieces. My big chance to present the 2012 Paralympics 2011-01-25T20:00:07Z Their lineout imploded a bit against South Africa and a couple of weeks ago Dylan Hartley went to pieces at Leicester. Wales' Warren Gatland slams England's Dylan Hartley before Six Nations 2011-01-24T21:01:21Z Bancroft sank back in his chair drawing his hand across his eyes and wondering why his self-control had so suddenly gone to pieces. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Was the thought process of the world growing, spreading, progressing, or was it going to pieces? Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z My dear," said Barbara impressively, "your nerves must simply have gone to pieces. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Despite my initial anxiety, I don't go to pieces. My big chance to present the 2012 Paralympics 2011-01-25T20:00:07Z If you are to ride to heaven on his wax and parchment, your chariot will soon go to pieces, and you will fall into hell, not in God's name! Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z Her father went to pieces, leaving Portas to look after her younger brother, abandoning any idea of becoming an actor. Mary Portas: 'Sometimes I come across as horrible ? I don't like that at all' 2011-01-10T07:59:01Z The peace policy of Jefferson was rapidly going to pieces in the face of a westward menace, the Federalists were jubilant, and in the Senate James Ross, of Pennsylvania, called for war. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z I then provided myself with matches, knives, cord, and other portable articles, trusting that, should the vessel go to pieces before daylight, we might gain the shore not wholly destitute. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z "And your article said that the Irish party would turn against Parnell if the case were tried, and that the English Liberals would throw him over, and the Home Rule cause would go to pieces." London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z "Don't you care whether the steamer goes to pieces or not?" A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z I am afraid that my nerves have gone to pieces since Thursday. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z Once, indeed, the raft grounded upon a subaqueous reef, and threatened going to pieces. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Yes, the old man’s been going to pieces fast since he closed his newspaper plant. The Secret Pact 2010-12-20T17:12:03.907Z “For myself I shouldn’t mind, but my wife’s going to pieces.” Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z The Bonita is stranded now, an' will go to pieces in the first gale if you can't fix the tug to tow her off. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z If it be driven home, we go to pieces. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z The Corrections told the story of the Lamberts, a Midwestern family that goes to pieces spectacularly as the father Alfred succumbs to the slow cerebral throttling of Parkinson's. Jonathan Franzen: American Author on TIME Pens 'Freedom' 2010-08-28T14:10:00Z "But if there was a basketball within 20 feet of me, I went to pieces." Before he was an NBA legend, Bill Russell was an average player 2010-05-13T04:00:00Z India buckled under the weight of runs, their fielding going to pieces. Gayle powers West Indies to victory 2010-05-09T20:04:00Z "The brig has gone to pieces, an' we're here with no chance of leavin' the key," the man continued, much as if giving valuable information. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z Instead, Henin's serve briefly went to pieces and Stosur broke twice in a row to fight her way back into the match. Henin wins and says Federer inspired her return 2010-05-02T17:20:00Z What you do, if your life goes to pieces, is call up a social worker and she will see that you get some sort of assistance. The old America is fading 2010-03-31T00:31:00Z He waited to be told, then he went to pieces with “great skill,” said Mr. Houben, whose face seemed to sag just retelling the scene. 2010-02-10T05:01:00Z Added to all this, the waves broke against us with a noise like thunder, and our timbers creaked as if the ship would go to pieces. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas It will end either in going to pieces or putting a bullet through my brain. The Undying Past He had thought that he had his course set to avoid danger, but he had come mighty near going to pieces on an uncharted rock yesterday. The Trail of Conflict From a relief in the Palace of Nimrod Tablet recording the Wars of Sennacherib The Hittites conquered Northern Syria and overran Mitannia when the Egyptian Asian empire went to pieces. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Both of these old capitalist class machines are going to pieces. Labor and Freedom I covered my face with my hands—I believed that the ship was going to pieces, and that our last moments had arrived. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas You know," he said, speaking quickly, "that after your trial he went to pieces, resigned his position, took to drinking again, tried to make his way in New York. Manslaughter But even assuming the degree of deflection to be very great, his theory goes to pieces on the very point it was supposed to explain. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology I know I shouldn't have said that I'd marry him, but gosh, he was just about to go to pieces, right while I was talking to him. Suzy But when the ship had gone to pieces, and the crew were all lost, who would blame Jack for picking up all he could find? Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Pots and pipkins must all go to pieces, either because they would eat none but roast flesh, or because their purpose was to make there but a single meal. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Everything going to pieces for want of that "stitch in time," which nowhere, and in nothing, in Spain, seems ever likely "to save nine." An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. You're going to pieces already under the influence of that girl. Sinister Street, vol. 2 And I thought you could never give it back, but last night you did, and I——Everything went to pieces——And it had to be last night, after I'd lost my temper. The Guarded Heights The excitement of the wedding kept her up, but she has gone to pieces since they left. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Hundreds of miles of macadam roads are built in the United States each year on unimproved or unstable foundations and almost as many miles go to pieces for this same reason. The Future of Road-making in America The rotten cloth on the cots went to pieces, in most cases, before the night was over, and, altogether, sleep was at a premium. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers In a word, our left wing had gone to pieces. Last Words That hat was a stunner, and I deeply regret it's untimely taking away—it went to pieces without a groan. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School Yes; and I won't see you go to pieces for want of a word. The Gambler A Novel Consequently the binder supplied by wear would be insufficient, and if not supplied from some other source the road would soon go to pieces. The Future of Road-making in America Then there came an explosion louder than any of the rest, and the boat seemed to go to pieces under them. Under Fire For Servia "I perceive," said Frobisher, shrewdly, "you expect that the Government will go to pieces, if you leave it." Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) That part of her seemed just to go to pieces and begin to sink all at once, while the bow and stern halves started to come up and close together like a jack-knife. Sea-Hounds Almost every cent I have in the world is invested in the firm, you know, and once that goes to pieces I—why, great Heaven, Johnson! In And Out Young singers essay these heavy r�les and the voices go to pieces. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists A cement not perfectly sound will give low results in the hot test, and a cement of indifferent soundness will crack and go to pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The Yard would go to pieces without you nowadays. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Our brief voyage presented nothing remarkable, except, indeed, that in crossing a small river upon the ice, the car turned over and went to pieces. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 These rocks were quite as dangerous as they looked; for more than one vessel, in attempting to enter Newport harbor during a gale, had gone to pieces there. No Moss The Career of a Rolling Stone In the year 1745, continues the same writer, the Fox man-of-war was stranded on the coast of East Lothian, and went to pieces. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Our mutual liking has stood a number of little shocks, and I have no fear it will go to pieces on my father’s trade. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance It was only a question of minutes when the huge hulk would begin to go to pieces. By Right of Conquest A Novel The other men behind the line had come to depend considerably upon him, and when Martin was put in his place they went to pieces. Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 One is sorry to learn that divers go to pieces early; few of them last beyond fifty. Careers of Danger and Daring If the vessel struck, she must go to pieces; nothing made by man's hands could stand against the fury of the sea, and every moment we were nearer destruction. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. If I hadn't been so busy apologizing, Edith, we wouldn't have gone to pieces. Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 What a fool he had been all these weeks, sitting there, letting himself go to pieces because the world had gone badly! The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Ho had done his best; but he was not strong enough, and he had gone to pieces. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 While the march had helped to weaken me, the excitement of it had sustained me, but I went to pieces when it was over. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion Luce proved a disappointment for the Hartford High-School in the quarter by going to pieces in the last half of the race after earning a good lead at the start. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 If the Church had not been Divine it would have gone to pieces long ago. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians They never seem to realise that it is the rock upon which we most of us go to pieces. The Red Rat's Daughter Annie tried to do so, but before she effected her purpose, the raft seemed evidently about going to pieces. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. At twenty they are experienced in business; embark in vast enterprises, take partners as experienced as themselves, and go to pieces with as much splendour as their neighbours. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel For a year he had been slowly going to pieces; for a year he had been dropping in for Dempsy to patch him up. Leerie The poorer grades go to pieces soon, and their colors are not fast. Camp and Trail I was afraid I should find you all gone to pieces. A Question of Marriage Their frail craft was picked up on the crest of a wave and hurled with mighty force against the side of the ship, the smaller boat instantly going to pieces. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers The moment I am tempted, I go to pieces. Lady Cassandra What lay back of this going to pieces? Leerie It was too soft, went to pieces, and got out of shape too easily. Camp and Trail She not only goes to pieces the quicker, but there ain't none of her found to tell where it happened, and how. One Of Them They were going to set off X-Bomb; when they do, everything will go to pieces. Elegy She replaced without complaint the oilcloth on the kitchen table which had gone to pieces under Biscuit's efforts to master the scissors-kick. Sube Cane Yes, he saw; and in that horror-smiting moment believed it all a part of his great scheme of destruction; then the universe went to pieces about him and something crumbled inside his brain. Leerie During the succeeding elections M. Buffet's Cabinet, antagonized by the Republicans and rent by internal dissensions, went to pieces, M. Buffet personally suffered disastrously at the polls. A History of the Third French Republic The diamond ring on his finger had scratched the glass and like all badly cooled crystal, it went to pieces at the slightest scratch. The Golden Age in Transylvania Do not let yourself go to pieces, my boy. The Time Mirror The Church is in danger of going to pieces, and they make use of the old worn-out means of support. Black Diamonds But every such refuge went to pieces after a time, crumbling into chaos under the shocks of pounding wave and battering ice. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life I can't tell you how I feel: sometimes I almost go to pieces, and feel like howling as if I was a dog. Black Forest Village Stories Yesterday it seemed Lord J. Russell might go out, or more likely I might, or even the cabinet might go to pieces. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) That you will never get, never!" he said; "the world will go to pieces, first! Waldfried A Novel To the girls in the car in their brief instant of consciousness, it seemed as if the universe were going to pieces. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds The steamer was on a reef, going to pieces, and we came up just as the boats were putting off. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The proof of this is that so many dramas, up to the final act complete successes and excellent examples of sound technic, go to pieces here. How to See a Play They spoke of deaths, of marriages, of births; of people who had prospered and people who had gone to pieces; of the growth of the town, of new people, of people who had moved away. Fidelity A Novel When she attempted nursing in war, went to pieces again; health saved by P. J., but would not have married him if he had not pretended to be R. M.'s heir. The Brightener "The—the rain barrel went to pieces," complained Tom. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds The army dwindled away and no new soldiers came in, so that it looked as if it would go to pieces. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read Mrs. Caldwell died in the night—and Sheila's gone to pieces. The Torch Bearer Everything seemed going to pieces, and she was no nearer knowing what the legal aspects of her case were. The New Warden If it simply drags along it will not hold the ship; but the ship may go to pieces on the rocks, even though it has an anchor, which has already been cast over. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul It professes to be so complete in every department that, if it should happen to go to pieces, there are ample arrangements on board for building another vessel as a substitute. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The vessel must inevitably go to pieces in the tempest to-night. Toilers of the Sea A pencil drawing in less skilful hands is apt to “go to pieces” on the press. The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. The schooner went to pieces, but the Cerberus was saved. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read "An' a crust that went to pieces in your mouth like ice-cream." The Princess and Joe Potter At home the whole framework of society may be going to pieces; Nicholas sits still and fondly annotates state papers, a very Narcissus of the inkpot. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 Said had climbed the mast, and held fast to it when the ship went to pieces. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace “We may go to pieces if we try it, and we are pretty certain to go to pieces if we don’t.” Frontier Boys in the South Seas But when the thing went to pieces, and B. Flat escaped on bail, it was announced that "the swindle had been exposed by the press," as indeed it was. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. I could see Mrs. Evans was going to pieces. Captain Macedoine's Daughter She may go to pieces any time now.” The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea Nor I. It's a pity the Jackson Lumber Company had to go to pieces. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon Naturalists have little desire for "a flight into the kingdom of the universe-comprehending ideas," and therefore indulge too freely in speculations which "go to pieces." Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" On the voyage there arose a great storm and the ship went to pieces, and a great fish swallowed Saktideva whole. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning I thought he had pulled up, but no doubt he went to pieces over some wretched woman again. Ancestors A Novel She must have been adrift ever since the wreck went to pieces.” The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea The cabin shook and rocked, and had it not been for the shelter of the cliff would have gone to pieces. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon All life, as I have said before, went to pieces under his scalpel, and he could not put it together again logically, once he had it cut up. The "Genius" But as Cooper was its lead-134-ing spirit, when he left for his trip abroad the club went to pieces. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations By noon the 200th began to show signs of going to pieces. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran Then the ship went to pieces, and I lost my senses. The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea Had it been otherwise, our Constitution would have gone to pieces in the first twenty-five years of its existence. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Are people saying that because a worm-eaten wheel went to pieces against a stone?” The Silent Barrier "Yes, I will, and on a lee shore too; so that the ship shall go to pieces on the rocks, and the Admiral and every soul on board her be drowned." Olla Podrida It'll go to pieces in court, but it'll show this pious Judge, who calls his neighbors to account, what kind of a man he is. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Most of what he made went to pieces, but if a handle came off a brush, he would quickly mend it again. Ditte: Girl Alive! The villainous little craft appeared to be in constant hesitation whether it would go to pieces or not; and I believe has since taken that freak into its head. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Eagerly did many of the local fans watch to see whether Donohue gave any evidence of going to pieces. Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond He would not venture into a boat so liable to go to pieces. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce Just what they mean by it, the French, how you simply go to pieces. Old Crow While they were engaged in rigging and setting up a new main topsail, to replace one that had gone to pieces early in the night, the ship struck. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 Grant had gone to pieces for a while. The Wealth of Echindul The ecclesiastical history of his youth went to pieces against the new criticism of 1863, and the revelation of the unknown which began on a very large scale in 1864. The History of Freedom "You know," the whaler said, "how natives go to pieces when civilization hits 'em." The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers The rear of the first brigade was prevented from going to pieces, principally by the energetic exertions of Colonel Grigsby. History of Morgan's Cavalry If only I don't go to pieces for sheer fright. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories It required Frederick’s hand of iron to set in motion these complicated springs, to regulate the unwieldy machine, keep together these elements collected with no little ingenuity and ready to go to pieces. German Problems and Personalities It is genuine Italian marble, and will not go to pieces in your hands. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone It's a tricky spot, that Smith's Point Shoal, and many a good vessel has gone to pieces on it. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers A girl as strong as a bear, and afraid of going to pieces. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature He was worried about her, and then she died; and he just went to pieces. Coquette Lloyd’s agent had her sold inside an hour; and before dark, when she went to pieces in earnest, the man that bought her had feathered his nest. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) In the movement, however, he dropped the cigar, H�rlin tried to grasp it, Heller trod on it with his heel, and with a light crackle it went to pieces. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Don't go to pieces, Dotty—" "Go to pieces nothing! Two Little Women I believe I should have gone to pieces if I hadn't written. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature I have seen pictures go to pieces within a month of their painting—bad paint and bad combinations. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors Another company gone to pieces, and its members landed penniless and in their costumes. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts "Well, if I find them giving way, I shall wrap rags around them before they go to pieces altogether." A Castle in Spain A Novel A few of these associations no doubt will go to pieces, through fraud or inexperience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A voice trained on "pieces" soon goes to pieces. The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation Oh, don’t stand here and see that boat go to pieces!” The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars After you’ve once seen some big craft go to pieces on the shoals, you rather lose your liking for the entertainment.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold “But it is too bad to have the work go to pieces like it is just because they are both so stubborn.” Captain Pott's Minister In 1886 the old Liberal party was run on the rocks and went to pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Accordingly, he makes larger demands upon life, and wants higher wages; his frugality of old went to pieces in the city. Woman under socialism I was working to break the boards off the top, and did get one off, when the whole thing went to pieces against a rock. Claim Number One He also says that the paper is rotten, and that after a few handlings goes to pieces. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 One fourth of the crops were to be paid to the company, which promised to provide water; but the company failed to find water and all the settlers and the company itself went to pieces. A Stake in the Land The fore part went to pieces, and all the hands forward, except Silva, who was at the wheel, went to. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Human life is cheap; if one workingman goes to pieces, three others are at hand to take his place. Woman under socialism Terrific vibration shook the ship, until I feared that it would go to pieces. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 The army of the North had been defeated at Bull Run, in fact, we had nothing but defeat, and it looked as though the republic was going to pieces. The Way to God and How to Find It If it will only hold together till I can get to shore," he thought, "I won't care if it goes to pieces the next minute. Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success The women went to pieces then, and the women are going to pieces to-day. The Passionate Friends Such is the consolation offered in bourgeois society to the wife, who, under the present order of society, is miserably going to pieces. Woman under socialism Apparatus would break, topple over, go to pieces, or burn up if Pauli just walked into the room. Psichopath She'd got to the point where she couldn't help it, where she just couldn't stand any more—with the business all gone to pieces and Matt coming out of jail, and everything else. The Side Of The Angels A Novel "Trafton," said Ben Bence gravely, "there is reason to think that your nephew put off from the island on a raft, which he made himself, and that the raft went to pieces." Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success You see, of course, if you’re not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst. The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train How many are not the inventors and discoverers who go to pieces in the capitalist world! Woman under socialism Do you go to pieces nervously if you are obliged to repeat a remark to some one who did not understand you? The Heart of the New Thought Captain McKenzie changed the course of the ship and we soon came in view of the Spanish sloop Seville going to pieces on the rocks. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew Next morning David was awakened with the news that a Spanish ship had gone ashore and was fast going to pieces, and he ran to the beach, where all the town was gathered. Tales from Dickens Fourth, rotten paper—it goes to pieces after being handled. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 If the answer is in the negative, then let the workingmen go to pieces. Woman under socialism “It’s not gone to pieces, Will,” Eve protested. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country They are sure to go to pieces," he said to Campion; "and it would be a strange thing if they did not. Name and Fame A Novel The idea of it seemed to go to pieces, as a printed word does when you look steadily at it, and to have no meaning. The Quality of Mercy |
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