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"Crump" Quotes from Famous Books

... keep a Merchant's Book, or send him to chop Logick in an University, and have him returned an arrant learned Ass, to simper, and look demure, and start at Oaths and Wenches, whilst I fell his Woods, and grant Leases: And lastly, to make good what I have cozen'd him of, force him to marry Mrs. Crump, the ill-favour'd Daughter of some Right Worshipful.—A Pox of all ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn

... even the little child who at that signal did not instantly cover his face with the hideous gas-mask. These noises were made chiefly with klaxon horns, though an empty shell-case struck by iron was found to give out a ringing sound that could plainly be heard above even the screech and crump of the shells. ...

— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett

... you go along here," said Captain Godfrey. "If a crump lands close by there's no need of all of us going! If we're spread out a bit, you see, a shell might get one and leave ...

— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder

... DRAMAS: Interpretations, embodying Wagner's own explanations. By Alice Leighton Cleather and Basil Crump. ...

— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

... and little heaps of dirty and caked equipment showed that salvage work was in progress. Away to the left a few crumbling walls and shattered trees marked a one-time prosperous agricultural village, from which with great regularity there came the sighing drone of a German crump followed by a column of black smoke and a shower of bricks and debris. But the place was dead; its inhabitants gone—God knows where. And soldiers: well, soldiers have a rooted dislike to dead villages near ...

— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

Words linked to "Crump" : blast, scranch, scraunch, crunch, crackle, shell, explode, burst