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  • But he kicked me in the mouth then, and thank God the pain of that shatterment washed straight back into my head, and wiped his ugly spittle-face from my sight, and the trees and the white sky behind it.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • It was at Winnipeg (you do not want to know how we got there) that I first walked into the aura of the Sweet Pea Lady, and by so doing prepared the way for the shatterment of another illusion -- namely, that

    A Woman Tenderfoot Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

  • For a British officer to be interested or mixed up with a native woman, no matter how noble the impulse, would be a shatterment of both official and personal caste.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

  • Ajeet knew that he had been tricked somehow, but to dispute the ordeal, the judgment of the black goddess, would be like an apostacy -- it would turn every Bagree against him -- it would be a shatterment of their tenets.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

  • Almost the shatterment of his career had lain in that worn discoloured sole, and disaster to his Raj if it had fallen into the hands of the conspirators.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

  • Also there was immediately a reversal of bird form, a shatterment of sentiment, a rasping maddening note from somewhere in the dome of a pipal tree.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

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