Word: crash
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thrust was enough; the few remaining strands snapped. Feeling the bucket sink under me, I seized the rope with one hand and Elsie with the other. And just as the bucket struck the bottom of the shaft with a great crash that re-echoed through the mine, I made Elsie clasp her arms around my neck. Then I tried to go up the rope hand over hand, until I should be able to wind it around me, and thus free my arms from the terrible strain; but I found that with Elsie hanging around my neck, I could...
...beautiful fantasia, which elicited great enthusiasm from the lookers-on, but gradually subsided to a low wail, as if preparatory to defeat. The signal was given; the instruments lead off on the "Marseillaise," while from the other end of the field thundered the chorus of "Yankee Doodle." A terrific crash followed, as the opposing ranks met in the struggle; screams of grief, shouts of triumph, filled the air, while the strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," proceeding from an injured runner, clashed with the "Babies on Our Block." By this time the whole air resounded with a wondrous...
...Weld, on the ground floor in the north entry, occupied by Mr. Sherman Hoar, '82. A pane of glass was broken out, and through this aperture it was made possible to unlock the sash and raise the window and enter. A neighbor says he heard a slight crash of glass about 11.30 P. M., when, it is supposed, the intruder entered. But, curiously and fortunately enough, Mr. Hoar has as yet been unable to discover that any property was stolen, though some disarrangement of things was noticed...
Where great boughs crash'd when autumn's unseen hands
...voice that rings thro' tempest crash...