Two more blasts hit him, Collapsing the forward compartment and knocking out one power tube.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
Tommy obeyed though he felt more like Collapsing.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
According to his conception of English polity the lower classes believed that the government was conducted by the Queen, whom they revered, while the cabinet, unseen and unknown by the ignorant multitude, was thereby enabled to carry on a system which would be in danger of Collapsing if the public thoroughly understood its real nature.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell