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Definition of Shatters
1. shatter [v] - See also: shatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shatters
Literary usage of Shatters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"experiences when propelling the ship under natural conditions, it follows that
the same setting of the shatters which suits а given engine when working with ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1845)
"... without destroying life, shatters the brain, and creates maddening fancies.
ill well serve my purpose; and I thank thee, Satan, for П. THE COMPACT. ..."
3. My Past: Reminiscences of the Courts of Austria and Bavaria; Together with by Marie Louise von Wallersee-Larisch, Marie Larisch (1913)
"... building—A dinner party—The ghosts of the past—The Spirit of the Mountains—The
King shatters his glass—What the servants did—The descending table—A hint ..."
4. The Professor at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1916)
"... The myriad germs that Nature shapes and shatters! If she had Well! She longed,
and knew not wherefore Had the world nothing she might live to care for? ..."
5. Travels in Lands Beyond the Sea: Beauty and Glory of Western Europe ... Pen by Charles Dorrance Linskill (1888)
"... WHILE GALLOPING, shatters GLITTERING BALLS AMID LIGHTNING AND FALLING
RAIN "BROTHER JONATHAN" AND "JOHNNY BULL" CONTENDING AMID CLASHING ELEMENTS, ETC. ..."