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1  And Ona would surely not go to work again, broken and crushed as she was.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
2  He was sick and disgusted, but after the new plan of his life, he crushed his feelings down.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
4  They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
5  In the city there was a combination of employers, representing hundreds of millions of capital, and formed for the purpose of crushing the labor unions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
6  Therefore these trucks went for the most part on the run; and the predecessor of Jonas had been jammed against the wall by one and crushed in a horrible and nameless manner.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  Nearly every one else in Packingtown did the same, however, for there was universal exultation over this triumph of popular government, this crushing defeat of an arrogant plutocrat by the power of the common people.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
8  So little Stanislovas went on, sobbing as he talked; and Jurgis stood, gripping the table tightly, saying not a word, but feeling that his head would burst; it was like having weights piled upon him, one after another, crushing the life out of him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
9  It would not do, Ostrinski explained, for the proletariat of one nation to achieve the victory, for that nation would be crushed by the military power of the others; and so the Socialist movement was a world movement, an organization of all mankind to establish liberty and fraternity.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29