Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...related that several days since, as one of the '90 ladies from Sage was slowly walking up from town, she was met by several young men, who noticed that she carried a package concealed under her cloak, and as they passed her, she by accident let fall the package. Crash it went on the sidewalk and Courtland cider flowed copiously in all directions, and the maiden fled toward Sage. - Cornell...
During the scratch races, one of the connecting irons between the stationary and floating platforms broke. The crash heard aroused some apprehension of another boathouse accident...
...smoke from the uncounted narghiles burned thick and black; the cries of the frustrated ginns who were no better than they should be rang wildly in our ears; the palm tree shook beneath a mighty wind; the distant summits of the minarets rocked and wavered, and, with a tremendous crash, the paradise of the faithful disappeared.[A. Lang, in the Fornightly Review...
They close with a mighty concussion and crash...
...this was done in an instant, and we were not five yards above the drift when the men at the top, hearing the crash of the falling bucket, stopped turning and called down to know what was the matter. "Pull us up quick!" I shouted. "The bucket's gone, and we're hanging by the rope...