"Tearing down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Stephen, as he, too, came out. The carriage was tearing down the hill towards them in the moonlight, and Stafford saw that the horses were rushing along with lowered heads and that the driver had lost all ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... them the drapery of the bed in which their youngest child was sleeping all in flames; then they saw a light form tearing down the blazing curtains. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... passed a large number of London busses loaded with wounded; they were all sitting-up cases and were a very happy looking lot. It was an odd sight to see bus after bus tearing down that long, straight road, with the tall trees on either hand, each bus with rows of soldiers seated on the upper deck, with heads and arms bandaged, looking about at everything with the greatest interest,—like tourists rather than men who had ...
— On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith
... overhanging trees, and a stream flows slowly along it. It is an enchanted valley, and if you look closely you will see that the stream is not as other streams, for it flows uphill. It comes rushing into the valley with a great display of foam and froth, and it leaves in a similar way, tearing down the rocks, and behaving like any other boisterous hill rivulet; but in the valley itself it lies under a spell. It is slow and dark, and has a surface like a mirror, and it flows uphill. There is no doubt about it; anyone can see it. When they came here, ...
— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding
... Men were tearing down the fences, and the companies were forming for battle in the fields, when there was a sudden outcry, the rolling thunder of many hoofs, and the sharp rattle of pistol-shots. A dense cloud of dust came whirling down the turnpike, and emerging from the yellow canopy the New York troopers, ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
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