Meanings of crumble to pieces in inglês

Such a fact may crumble to pieces and give place to another.

A gallant horseman causes any castle in which he is to crumble to pieces.

It has been exposed to great heat, and may crumble to pieces at a change of temperature.

Take any of these stones; they will crumble to pieces on the hearth if struck the slightest blow.

But they are not enduring, and crumble to pieces at the end of five or six hundred years.

You would not like either to see her go to decay and crumble to pieces from inherent weakness?

There's nothing more frustrating than watching a relationship crumble to pieces and not being able to prevent its demise.

Though the world were to crumble to pieces round him, its ruins would strike him without making him tremble.

It had been the boast of anti-"Mormons" that with Joseph Smith removed, the Church would crumble to pieces of itself.

Then Mr. Prohack observed his wife's face crumble to pieces, and she moved aside from him, sat down and began to cry.

He hollows or bores out winding tunnels in the wood with the sharp edge of his shell until the piles crumble to pieces.

You would have thought he was a man who at a single blow sees the edifice of all his hopes crumble to pieces.

There are many poems which begin with an ample sweep, and suddenly crumble to pieces, as though he were merely tired of them.

The Pile battery was in a much worse condition, it being hotly cannonaded by the ships, and threatened every moment to crumble to pieces.

At home she was bankrupt and, upon the earthquake of the Reformation, her power was already beginning to totter and to crumble to pieces.

They were sincerely convinced that the British Empire would crumble to pieces the moment its ligaments of red tape were in the slightest degree relaxed.