Breaking

Examples

• The effect instantly ceases when the current is interrupted by breaking connection with either pole of the battery. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I will try to be worthy, he said, breaking off before he could say of you as well as of her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Men cannot live by thought alone; the world of sense is always breaking in upon them. Plato. The Republic.
• The 'young gal' likewise occasioned me some uneasiness: not so much by neglecting to wash the plates, as by breaking them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He knew how near to breaking was the vessel that held his life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He did not care if in breaking Germany Europe was broken; his mind did not go far enough beyond the Rhine to understand that possibility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The troubles she has had here have wearied her, said Lydgate, breaking off again, lest he should say too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ten yokes of oxen dragging a boat with sails out of the sea in the morning with the line of the small waves breaking on the beach. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• O Mr Wrayburn,' she answered, suddenly breaking into tears, 'is the cruelty on my side! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He is aware of the importance of 'classifying according to nature,' and will try to 'separate the limbs of science without breaking them' (PhaeDr.). Plato. The Republic.
• No; but it can give varieties of pain, and prevent us from breaking our hearts with a single tyrant master-torture. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If the subterranean forces find vent in one place, there is less chance of them breaking out in another. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• And may be you would not approve nather, of their nate, compact little fashion of breaking a head, perhaps? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Why, Esther, said he, breaking into a smile, our visitor and you are the two last persons on earth I should have thought of connecting together! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The breaking up of the family? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We lived at the top of the last house, and the wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like discharges of cannon, or breakings of a sea. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Edited by Edith