Breakers
['brekɚ]
Examples
- Once put up, I defy the frame-breakers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But they were still, to a great degree, bone-breakers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nor catching any thieves, nor identifying any house-breakers? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The breakers were sometimes high, so that the landing was tedious. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What to do we knew not --the breakers here, there, everywhere, encompassed us--they roared, and dashed, and flung their hated spray in our faces. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If we could only fall in wi' some of these starved ragamuffins of frame-breakers we could win a grand victory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sea no longer broke with fury; but a swell setting in steadily for shore, with long sweep and sullen burst replaced the roar of the breakers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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