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But they were gone, scattered like chaff, mysteriously and subtly vanished in essence or in fact.
The Beautiful and Damned
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Falsehood and perjury had preceded her testimony; but before her testimony, falsehood was scattered like chaff.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
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The various departments had scattered like chaff before a stiff wind, seeking shelter wherever they could.
The Information Officer
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His own people were scattered like chaff.
The Blood Red Dawn
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Before the terrible onset of the fanatic Roundheads the Scots were scattered like chaff before the wind (1650).
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The ragged, wild-eyed horde, sweeping in at the shattered doorway, brought up standing, then turned madly and scattered like chaff.
The Fifth Ace
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They scattered like chaff.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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As to the mourners, they fairly flew beside it, greatly diminished in number, the others scattering like chaff before the wind.
My Home in the Field of Honor
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And behold, they had smashed like wax and scattered like chaff, and fled and vanished like the creatures of a dream!
The First Men in the Moon
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Then a wild panic and a total rout ensued, and the great host was scattered like chaff, and driven into the ravines.
Six Months at the Cape
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The band of volunteers which sallied from the city, mostly youths of quality, was scattered like chaff before the immense superiority of force.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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The floor is now torn up to his very feet; the far end of the building, roof and walls, has been scattered like chaff.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
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For there, by an army without sword or spear, the absolutism of Monarchies and the tyranny of Hierarchies were scattered like chaff before the wind.
The Covenants And The Covenanters / Covenants, Sermons, and Docu...