first-rate vs smashing

first-rate

adj
  • Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality. 

  • Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen. 

noun
  • A first-rate ship of the line. 

smashing

adj
  • Wonderful, very good or impressive. 

  • Serving to smash (something). 

noun
  • Gerund: The action of the verb to smash. 

How often have the words first-rate and smashing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )