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Definition of Crumbled
1. crumble [v] - See also: crumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumbled
Literary usage of Crumbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1903)
"The board upon which the poet's head had crumbled to dust fell away, and a
prominent Baltimore journalist who was present treasured it at his home for years ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"the shore is fringed with heavy boulders, which have crumbled and fallen from
the cliff. The summit of the peninsula is a table-land, about 180 to 200 feet ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine edited by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"And long after the frailer monuments of marble and brass shall have crumbled into
dust, his story shall survive. y* ..."
4. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"The wagon came to a sudden end by being badly smashed. o'clock, and the iron
superstructure crumbled into a thousand fragments; even the abutments were ..."
5. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... found a way to prove their date by the contemporary coins of Syracuse which
lived on when the flesh and the raiment of their owners had crumbled away '. ..."
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