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Definition of Crumbling
1. crumble [v] - See also: crumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumbling
Literary usage of Crumbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1896)
"scope tube slides into another, the mass of the tower crumbling beneath it.
The stones and dust from the base of the tower rushed into the nave, choir, ..."
2. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"A quarter of a century ago, it was a crumbling, mediaeval fortress, utterly
useless to its owner, and interesting to the public merely as a pleasant ..."
3. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"... its (hades around : The altars heav'd ; and from the crumbling ground A mighty
dragon fhot. ... crumbling ..."
4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1920)
"At the moment when Pershing would attack near Verdun, Allenby would dispose of
the Turk; Diaz was already maturing his plans for finishing off the crumbling ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"What is indisputable is the fact that the old crosses are inevitably crumbling
into elemental dust. The sharpness of their once distinctive features is ..."
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