They dragged furniture onto the second floor veranda and threw it into the street; books rained down like broken-backed birds; jars of simples smashed on the concrete, strewing arcs of colored powder.

He stomped on a couple of cans, smashed two or three jars.

The jar smashed on the ground behind them.

The startled boy asked him why he had damaged it, and the teacher replied: "The damage would be if I had first told you what the jar was for and had then smashed it.

The jar smashed on his foot severing a tendon in his big toe.

The jar in his hand dropped and smashed on the tiles; there was the smell of slightly rancid salad dressing.

A jar of instant coffee fell to the floor and smashed; tins dropped and rolled all over; a packet of spaghetti noodles burst open.

A jar of pickled onions rolled off the shelf and smashed, infusing the air with the acrid smell of vinegar.

The jar smashed into the floor behind him, showering Tas with broken fragments of glass.

I hurled it at the man's head, and he turned and fled precipitately, the heavy jar missing him by inches to smash against the door frame.