Citations:dashed


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * That mountain has been the death of many, and will be the death of many more; it is well you escaped being by it dashed in pieces.
 * He, therefore, that went before, (Vain-confidence by name), not seeing the way before him, fell into a deep pit [Isa. 9:16], which was on purpose there made, by the Prince of those grounds, to catch vain-glorious fools withal, and was dashed in pieces with his fall.
 * So Christian and Hopeful looked down, and saw at the bottom several men dashed all to pieces by a fall that they had from the top.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse. Great heaps of sea-weed clung to its base, and storm-birds — born of the wind one might suppose, as sea-weed of the water — rose and fell about it, like the waves they skimmed.