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Definition of Smashings
1. smashing [n] - See also: smashing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smashings
Literary usage of Smashings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"Creed smashings necessary for federation. Overland, ns Cl: 195-8. F. '13.
Episcopalian, Catholic, Lutheran: what these creeds surrender to enter the church ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Knocks, in such case, grow strokes, grow smashings: the wooden guardian flies in
shivers. And now ensues a Scene over which the world has long wailed; ..."
3. The Century by Bim Sherman (1885)
"The men smashed; the women scooped up the smashings. The river was overflowing
the top of the levee. A rainstorm began to threaten. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"... incurred disaster by the rail, and that the sweeping phrase " of any kind "
was a short way of including the various species of mutilations, smashings, ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Knocks, in such case, grow strokes, grow smashings : the wooden guardian flies
in shivers. And now ensues a Scene over which the world has long wailed ..."
6. The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire, William Joseph Hardee (1868)
"... resulting from over production, or the successful rivalry of foreign nations,
or even portions of the same country; or there are smashings of banks, ..."
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