back-broken

The great mountains lay around us like back-broken dragons.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

The great mountains lay around us like back-broken dragons.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

It was not the fault of any of them that he was now wretched and back-broken.

Phineas Finn 2004

Inside he saw a rickety table, a back-broken chair, and a hodgepodge of chests, bins, trunks, and other storage furniture.

WARCHILD ESTHER FRIESNER 1990

There was a movement under the cloth, and a little snake wriggled out, to be back-broken by the butt of the mahseer-rod.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

It was not the fault of any of them that he was now wretched and back-broken.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869

It was not the fault of any of them that he was now wretched and back-broken.

Phineas Finn 1867

It was not the fault of any of them that he was now wretched and back-broken.

Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848

"Why, you dog, I sat next to her; sat in the middle the whole way, and my back's half broke, I can tell you:" and thus, having depicted his happiness, we soon reached the inn where this back-broken young man was to lodge during his stay in Paris.

The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

The wooden figure-head of the _Camel_, representing a Guinea nigger detecting a bad smell, and the monochrome picture of two back-broken dolphins on the stern, acquired a new importance.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878