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Sentences starting with break

Break up this union, this marriage of love in which these two rejoiced? [11]
Break not mine old heart; say thou know'st me. [5]
Break the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. [2]
Break down the doors! [11]
Break that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more forever. [7]
Break it off. [5]

Sentences ending with break

If you are wise and diligent, you can establish relations with the best of them which they will find it very hard to break. [3]
Yet so impressible was his sensitive nature, that I doubt not, if he had given himself up to the enchantment of these coasts in his lifetime, it would have led him by a spell he could not break. [4]
I arose and undressed, moving on tiptoe about the room, doing stealthily what I had to do, as if I were environed by sleeping enemies whose slumbers it would be fatal to break. [5]
I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]
Wrangle thundered on to change his pace with a violent break. [13]
What a place that was to be in--especially if that leather belt should break! [5]
One day he sprang over a fence, took from the hands of coquettish Elise Malboir an axe, and split the knot which she in vain had tried to break. [11]
She had never repented having married Jim; but twice in those three years she had broken down and wept as though her heart would break. [11]
Suddenly, before they realized it, the farmer had vanished into the storm, and this unexplained desertion of their host gave rise to an awkward silence between them, which each for a while strove vainly to break. [9]
Then the landlord's party left, and the rest of us set about our preparations for breakfast, for the dawn was ready to break. [5]

Short sentences using break

I hereby break the betrothal. [10]
He will make or break. [11]
They didn't break him--not much. [11]
It would break her heart. [5]
When do you break ground? [9]
I shall break! [10]

Sentences containing break two or more times

Guida, so Detricand thought, might break her heart and live on; this woman would break her heart and die: the one would grow larger through suffering, the other shrink to a numb coldness. [11]
New York does make or break a play; but it doesn't make or break a book; it doesn't make or break a magazine. [8]
I've lost everything, in a way, by the break in my life, and I've an idea that you gained everything when the break in yours came. [11]
Women break out--they break out, and then there is the devil to pay. [11]
Near by that break is a false break which resembles it, and which used to make trouble for the mariner at night, in the early days before the place was lighted. [5]
The fatal touch awaits them all That turns the rocks to dust; From year to year they break and fall, They break, but never rust. [6]
They swam out and manned the boat, and piloted her through a narrow and hardly noticeable break in the reef--the only break in it in a stretch of thirty-five miles! [5]

More example sentences with the word break in them

Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! [2]
Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
That's the sound you'll hear every day of your life, if you break the promise you've got to make to me now. [11]
I will break you, and soothe your hurt afterwards. [11]
In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
Your company orders you to come here and rudely break up an innocent amusement, and furnishes you no way to enforce the order! [5]
I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. [7]
Ay, then, but you shall speak, or I'll break my word to her, to do right by her son. [11]
I've been onto you for a good while; though there was nothing I could spot certain; but now I've got you, and I'll break the 'perfect friendship' or I'll eat my shirt. [11]
As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
You promise her, you break her life, you spoil her, and then you fly away --ah coward you! [11]
Yassir, it'd break yo' Aunt Polly's heart to hear you. [5]
There it was written that the vehemence flashing from the hero's bright eyes, even when peacefully inclined, showed how easily his wrath could break forth. [10]
If when I write, I were to think of the critics who, I know, are waiting for Currer Bell, ready 'to break all his bones or ever he comes to the bottom of the den,' my hand would fall paralysed on my desk. [14]
The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
What--what you desire would not mend your life, but break it utterly. [9]
And how much would it avail you, if you could, by the use of John Brown, Helper's Book, and the like, break up the Republican organization? [7]
Not that he would break with it exactly; it was not necessary to do that; but he would find something to do, something worth a man's doing, or, at any rate, some occupation that should tax his time and his energies. [4]
The thing itself would break the daily monotony of life and provide hushed gossip for vraic gatherings and veilles for a long time to come. [11]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
The other denominations would abuse it, and "bear" it, and "sell it short," and break it down. [5]
Nothing can be worse than what we have to suffer now, so let's make a break for it. [11]
Heart of the World break forth, Tongues of the World proclaim! [11]
The Emperor sees with regret that the picked soldiers appointed to guard his person, who should set an example of discipline, carry disobedience to such a point that they break into the cellars and stores containing army supplies. [2]
Let's break Ingolby's windows and soak him in the Sagalac. [11]
The man that will vote for that bill will break the eighth commandment in any other way, sir! [5]
Your heart says: 'Why did she break off our betrothal,' and your right feeling tells you that you would have given her a happier lot. [10]
Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
He felt that when the next test came the old man would either break completely, and sink down into another and everlasting forgetfulness, or tear away forever the veil between himself and his past, and emerge into a long-lost life. [11]
Beginning at the western break of the valley, it rushed along each gigantic cliff, whistling into the caves and cracks, to mount in power, to bellow a blast through the great stone bridge. [13]
But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
If a Chinaman were to see his master break up a centre table, in a passion, and kindle a fire with it, that Chinaman would be likely to resort to the furniture for fuel forever afterward. [5]
If these ladies were hogs to everybody and to themselves, it would be necessary to break the enchantment, and that might be impossible if one failed to find out the particular process of the enchantment. [5]
As the days went by and nothing happened to break the monotony of his waiting and his fruitless search, he became despondent. [4]
One of our well meaning reptiles--I mean relic-hunters--had crawled up there and was trying to break a "specimen" from the face of this the most majestic creation the hand of man has wrought. [5]
When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more. [5]
Why not as well die in the attempt to break up a wretched servitude to a perverted nervous movement as in any other way? [6]
In England as well as in France, as we have said, it was the period of the classic revival; but in England the energetic reality of the time was strong enough to break the classic fetters, and to use classic learning for modern purposes. [4]
Yet, as the weeks passed, it seemed he must break upon this dangerous romance; and then suddenly she went to visit her sick aunt in the Far West. [11]
We get so we would rather Gladys would fall out of the book and break her neck than do it again. [5]
Twice or thrice we seemed to get the signal, and a shout was just ready to break from the men's lips when they perceived it was a false alarm. [5]
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
He has to watch the huge dikes which keep the ocean from overwhelming him, and the river-banks, which may break, and let the floods of the Rhine swallow him up. [4]
What I meant, was, that I would break one of his legs, or something of that sort; but in Lucerne I instantly saw that I could impair his mind. [5]
Fleda's first impulse was to break in upon the woman's story and tell her father what had happened just now outside their own house; but she waited. [11]
The white horse was the only one to break the silence that followed, by sneezing with all his might. [9]
Her woman's wit was the first to break the hopeless situation. [4]
Result: the gate was only a flimsy structure of wood--we would break it down. [5]
If that pony was mine, I'd break him. [12]
I felt he was acting upon deliberation; that he was trusting to the power of his insinuating address, his sophistry, to break down barriers. [11]
For awhile there was a partial break, which furnished about such a sunset as will be exhibited when the Last Day comes and the universe tumbles together in wreck and ruin. [5]
To him it was a gigantic break from a green pasture into a red field of war. [11]
There cometh a voice from out the North And a face of living flame-- A man's soul crying, Behold what worth Was life till her sweet soul came-- Heart of the World break forth! [11]
There was a violent break in the force of his feeling--then creeping blankness. [13]
It is a vicious circle from which we must break a way out. [2]
The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldn't see a break in it hardly ever, or a light. [5]
We never went very near it, because we knowed better now than to act like that and scare people's camels and break up their caravans. [5]
This was all very fine, but when we came to break the gate, we could not do it. [5]
None save a very few conspirators knew how great a part it played in the plan to break the government of Ireland and to ruin England's position in the land. [11]
Whatever duty urges us to do or to omit must be done or omitted; and the recklessness with which our adversaries break the laws, or counsel their violation, should afford no example for us. [7]
It might delay us months, but no matter, I would carry it out or break something. [5]
The rest of us had been soberly sipping our tea, and when the Doctor and the Annexes stopped talking there was one of those dead silences which are sometimes so hard to break in upon, and so awkward while they last. [6]
Suddenly she felt urged to break the silence, and as if she could not help it she asked: "Am I the other? [10]
Upon what principle, upon what rightful principle, may a State, being no more than one fiftieth part of the nation in soil and population, break up the nation, and then coerce a proportionably large subdivision of itself in the most arbitrary way? [7]
Did that break up the enterprise? [5]
There are conditions under which an effort to break it may have some chance--that is, some small, some trifling chance--of success. [5]
You see the two perfumes began to mix, and then--well, pretty soon we made a break for the door; and out there Thompson swabbed his face with his bandanna and said in a kind of disheartened way, "It ain't no use. [5]
He had read two letters addressed to Carmen by the man--Hugo Stolphe--who had left her to her fate; and there was a grim devouring thing in him which would break loose, if ever the man crossed his path. [11]
And so the two begin to hoot and yell, and throw mud and bricks at the Good Templars; and, of course, they break up the procession. [5]
A distracted father tries to break through the ranks and rescue his son. [9]
The law has tried to break this up, but not with perfect success. [5]
And now the trees, as if the elements were closing in on them, began to break close by, and one lurched forward towards them. [11]
He has no traditions to bind him or guide him, and his impulse is to break away from the occupation his father has followed, and make a new way for himself. [5]
Then he rose, took out his knife, and went over to the box as if to break the red seal. [11]
Look you, after to-day you and I will never break bread or drink wine together. [11]
Who will say to you like him: 'Vanne Castine, you have break all de commandments: you have swear, you have steal, you have kill, you have drink. [11]
I am going to write all day and two thirds of the night, until the thing is done, or break down at it. [5]
It only remains to throw out a few conjectures as to the particular manner in which it is to break up and disappear. [3]
Mr. Linder appealed to the House, but, before the question was put, withdrew his appeal, saying he preferred to let the gentleman go on; he thought he would break his own neck. [7]
All I intended to say was, that we need not wait for hearts to break out in flames to know that they are full of combustibles and that a spark has got among them. [6]
He was helping to procure arms for Johannesburg; he was also arranging to have Jameson break over the border and come to Johannesburg with 600 mounted men at his back. [5]
And now list to me; aw'm not goin' to eat dirt, and aw'm goin' to give you the lie, and aw'm goin' to break your neck, if I swing for it to-morrow, Jim Faddo. [11]
It's all arranged to make trouble and break the law. [11]
Anne, which was to make its last trip south in the morning--even now it would have to break its way through the young ice. [11]
I beg you to leave the town and break off all communication with such men as Klyucharev. [2]
There's no place to go except the streets--but you've just got to go somewhere, to break loose and have a little fun,--even though you're so tired you want to throw yourself on the bed and cry. [9]
The reason is, to give room for the cows to run through when they break into the garden,--as they do sometimes. [4]
I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. [6]
She was about to break the twig, but she hesitated and said: "If I were sure that you--" She threw the spray away, and continued: "This is silly! [5]
Jim, they tried to break the old man. [11]
We are powerless to break the enchantment. [4]
Day was beginning to break over Dalgrothe Mountain. [11]
If I write to break off the engagement I shall lose dignity, and it will appear as though I had regrets. [9]
I didn't want to break him in suddenly, but do it by degrees. [5]
He had helped to break her, and had sent her home from the improvised corral by one of his men. [11]
It seemed impossible to break Georgie of this bad habit, but the Brants managed it at last by hiring him, with apples and marbles, to stay in. [5]
If we try to break free, and are fired on, the Admiralty may approve of us, because we've broken away from the rest. [11]
The idea was to break Frank Erne's heart if he ever came to Utah--to show him his daughter with a band of low rustlers. [13]
Suppose you wanted to break down these strong and well-compacted characters--what influence would you bring to bear upon the ingots? [5]
To induce another to break a vow made to his mother would have been sinful. [10]

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