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Sentences starting with breaking

Breaking away from traditions and not going to church have not destroyed the need in the minds of the mass of people for something outside themselves. [4]
Breaking Rock is rich. [11]
Breaking Rock stood for a moment looking towards the lodge, then came slowly forward to them. [11]
Breaking Rock was at the door now, his beady eyes fixed on Mitiahwe's, his figure jerked to its full height, which made him, even then, two inches less than Long Hand. [11]
Breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. [5]

Sentences ending with breaking

Eagles, spread out your wings,-- Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
Eagles spread out your wings, Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
The dawn of the third morning was breaking. [5]
I clumb up the shed and crept into my window just before day was breaking. [5]
Then followed a piercingly high yell of anguish, quickly breaking. [13]
A grape-shot, after passing through a post and a board, had struck him in the hip, bruising, but not penetrating or breaking. [6]
The mere remembrance of it so moved him that he could not talk of it without his voice breaking. [5]
She had not learned the mystery of awaking Those chorded keys that soothe a sorrow's aching, Giving the dumb heart voice, that else were breaking. [6]
Zermatt gossip darkly hints that the elder Taugwalder cut the rope, when the accident occurred, in order to preserve himself from being dragged into the abyss; but Mr. Whymper says that the ends of the rope showed no evidence of cutting, but only of breaking. [5]
They've put you here to break your high spirits, and I'm to help the breaking. [11]

More example sentences with the word breaking in them

I suppose the Young Lady expressed a nearly universal feeling in her regret at the breaking up of the winter-fireside company. [4]
For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
Why, Huck, it wouldn't make no more talk than breaking into a soap factory. [5]
They are not without talent, and he ever and anon relieves his prose jog-trot by breaking into a canter of poetry. [6]
But it lies with you to prevent it from ever breaking out; for I should always endeavor to fulfill a kindly expressed wish, if it were possible. [10]
If the Cosmopolitan wishes to pay $600 for either of them or $1,200 for both, gather in the check, and I will use the money in America instead of breaking into your treasury. [5]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
I asked her which one, but she said, all of them: one felt like breaking the whole lot. [4]
In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
The crowd made way for her, and she came smiling and bowing through the narrow human lane, with Betsy Hale, as escort and support, smiling and bowing in her wake, the audience breaking into welcoming cheers as the old favorites filed along. [5]
Just as a wave poises at its height before breaking upon the shore, it hung at every pulse-beat, and then seemed to fall over with a sickening thud. [11]
He stood and watched the sea breaking over her, and the whole scene flashed back on him. [11]
When the "reception" was over and the company was breaking up into groups and moving about, Philip again sought Evelyn. [4]
But what we wanted to speak to you about was this," he continued, as Mr. Crewe showed signs of breaking in, "those committee appointments you desired. [9]
One need not wait to see the smoke coming through the roof of a house and the flames breaking out of the windows to know that the building is on fire. [6]
There it was vast and lone, Splendid in power, breaking against the stone Walls of the world in thunder symphony. [11]
I've been breaking up this last year, just when we've been knitting the cracks in the building. [11]
Still I paced up and down, promising myself that every time should be the last, and breaking faith with myself on some new plea as often as I did so. [12]
She tried to understand, but she was breaking, under exhaustion, and she could not gather the meaning. [5]
There are only two seasons in the region round about Mono Lake--and these are, the breaking up of one Winter and the beginning of the next. [5]
She opened the top drawer of the chest, the drawer in which Hannah, breaking tradition, had put the Bumpus genealogy. [9]
I remember being told, and I suppose this to have been the true solution, that it was the sound of the waves, after a high wind, breaking on the long beaches many miles distant. [6]
Last night and to-day sea very high and cobbling, breaking over and making us all wet and cold. [5]
It was marvelous to see her skim over it, leaping among its intricacies, and not breaking her slender legs. [4]
Be not afraid to report, for times can come when even a mother's heart is past breaking --being already broke. [5]
As a relief to monotony it may be now and then allowed,--may even have an agreeable effect in breaking the monotony of too formal verse. [6]
You are dear to me, and I wish you to remain so, but that you can only do by not breaking the oath you have sworn. [10]
Generally he inclined to leniency; but breaking into a house was punishable with death, and in this instance it was but right to show no mercy, out of deference to the Arab merchant. [10]
When that begins to blow, one feels the foundations of his belief breaking up. [4]
When they get to be steers he spends all his holidays in breaking them in to a yoke. [4]
That day I threw Chartersea's presents out of the window, but my father made the servants gather them all which escaped breaking, and put them in the drawing-room. [9]
Later when she thought about the breaking of the phial, the conviction grew upon her limited intelligence that this accident would perhaps prove in the end to be the best thing that could have happened, not only for her but for all mankind. [10]
Curious to relate, though his heart was breaking, his voice was steady--steady as it always had been. [9]
The Member resented this unparliamentary treatment by jumping up from his chair and giving the small aggressor a good shaking, at the same time seizing the implement which had caused his wrath and breaking it into splinters. [6]
But who is this officer breaking his sword to bits against the fence, rather than surrender it to a Yankee? [9]
I do not think they will be in danger of breaking their hearts for me at our house. [6]
It's a hateful thing to see--the light green water, the deadly sissing of the straight narrow ripple like the grooves of a wash- board: and a ship's length ahead the water breaking over the reefs, two frigates behind ready to eat us. [11]
Aren't there Irishmen there, always conniving to put England at defiance here by breaking her laws, cheating her officers, seducing her patriots? [11]
The breaking of their solitude, though by a well-meaning friend, had not only dispelled all its dream and much of its charm, but had instilled a canker of fear. [13]
Death was breaking the voice in his throat. [11]
In the discussion the victor's betrothed bride had been named, and Siebenburg clearly remembered that he had spoken of the breaking of his brother-in-law's engagement, and connected it with accusations which involved him in a quarrel with several of the guests, among them Heinz Schorlin. [10]
His companion crossed the threshold close behind him, sullen, deeply incensed, and determined to order his son to choose between his love and favour and the daughter of this unfriendly man, whom only a sudden accident had prevented from breaking the betrothal. [10]
The rear of the tenement-houses showed him the picturesqueness of clothes-lines fluttering far aloft, as in Florence; and the new apartment-houses, breaking the old sky-line with their towering stories, implied a life as alien to the American manner as anything in continental Europe. [8]
She could hear the storm breaking over the deck. [11]
At one and the same moment came the sound of an explosion, a whistle of splinters as from a breaking window frame, a suffocating smell of powder, and Prince Andrew started to one side, raising his arm, and fell on his chest. [2]
It was almost the same as breaking pieces from the hearts of those old Arabs. [5]
Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing. [2]
And breaking for the platform, Thompson got suffocated and fell; and before I got him dragged out, which I did by the collar, I was mighty near gone myself. [5]
During a decade the old political parties, between which there was now little more than an artificial alignment, had been breaking up. [9]
Jane Withersteen awaited the long-deferred breaking of the storm with a courage and embittered calm that had come to her in her extremity. [13]
Mr. Clay was the leading spirit in making the Missouri Compromise; is it very credible that if now alive he would take the lead in the breaking of it? [7]
North of this the land comes down to the sea in knolls of rock breaking off suddenly-rocks gray with lichen, and shaded with a touch of other vegetation. [4]
Fulkerson, while breaking the ice for the whole company, was mainly engaged in keeping Colonel Woodburn thawed out. [8]
He listened until the hum grew into a roar, and then, breaking the spell, once more he heard it low and clear. [13]
Sometimes they hoisted the half of a skeleton into the air, then slammed it down and beat it with the pole, breaking it up so that it would burn better. [5]
It was not the fault of Mrs. Mavick that the season was so frigid, its glacial stateliness only now and then breaking out in an illuminating burst of festivity, like the lighting-up of a Montreal ice-palace. [4]
At bedtime, when the family were breaking up for the night, she privately looted one of the brushes, saying to herself, "It's the one he has used, the most. [5]
Few people have the courage to abide the breaking of the serenity of summer, and remain in the country for the more glorious autumn days that are to follow. [4]
Made firm in the Constitution, so made that it cannot be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution; durable as the Constitution, and part of the Constitution. [7]
And breaking through the bushes we came upon Miss Thorn and the Celebrity. [9]
It was like the breaking up of life; he was struggling in the consciousness of coming death: when Ruth stood by his side, clothed in white, with a face like that of an angel, radiant, smiling, pointing to the sky, and saying, "Come. [5]
A heart-break for that kind is their salvation: without it they go on breaking the hearts of others. [11]
You cannot destroy that judgment and feeling--that sentiment--by breaking up the political organization which rallies around it. [7]
Tell that party that I took the package without opening it, and shall return it, very likely, without breaking the seal. [6]
What they had taken for larks announcing the breaking of a brighter day turned out to be bats and similar vermin of the night. [10]
I was completely taken aback,--I had not thought of such a sudden breaking up of our little circle. [6]
The storm had suddenly ceased, and a glimmer of sunset light was breaking over the distant wastes of snow. [11]
The old man's sudden breaking out in this way turned every face towards him, and each kept his posture as if changed to stone. [6]
They come with such insinuating humility,--they cannot bear to intrude upon my time, they know that I have a great many calls upon it,--and incontinently proceed to lay their additional weight on the load which is breaking my back. [6]
At last O'Ryan's strength came to the point of breaking, for Vigon was a powerful man, and to this was added a madman's energy. [11]
Presently, as he stood still at sight of a ground-hog making for its hiding-place, he saw a shadow fall across the light breaking through the trees some distance in front of him. [11]
One of us stood by the battery all day long, breaking up masses of silver-bearing rock with a sledge and shoveling it into the battery. [5]
The machine was still breaking the types now and then, and no doubt Paige was itching to take it to pieces, and only restrained by force from doing so. [5]
A wind suddenly sprang up from the north-west, followed by a breaking cross sea. [11]
Natasha's illness was so serious that, fortunately for her and for her parents, the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background. [2]
There are reviving signs of breaking away, delusive signs that create momentary exhilaration. [4]
With a breaking sigh she crept into bed slowly and lay like one who had been beaten, bruised, and shamed. [11]
Lost in thought, she accepted her attendant's aid, breaking her silence only after she had gone to her couch. [10]
Could he not see that he was breaking her heart, while filling it also with unbearable joy? [11]
Below, puffs of sand were breaking out of the plain in every direction, as though the plain were alive with invisible horsemen. [5]
Yet all the same this information astonished and irritated the count, coming as it did in the form of a simple note with an order from Kutuzov, and received at night, breaking in on his beauty sleep. [2]
As far as rum was concerned, he was a creature after Aunt Lucy's own heart, for he never touched it: true, gaunt Deacon Ira Perkins, tithing-man, had once chided him for breaking the Sabbath--shooting at a fox. [9]
Her boat had reached Pelusium just as the flames were breaking out in the palace; the broad flare of light and the cries from the various vessels in the harbor brought her on deck. [10]
As they were pretty certain of the road he must have taken, however, and kept on at a great pace, they came up with him, at the very moment when he had taken breath, and was breaking into a run again. [12]
Time, bitterness, and power had hardened Philip's mind, and his long-restrained emotions, breaking loose now, made him a passionate and wilful figure. [11]
He is not pleased with the tardiness of the movement toward Chattanooga, and directs that no force be sent here if you cannot do it without breaking up the operations against that point and East Tennessee. [7]
A great many people regard growing fruit as lawful prey, who would not think of breaking into your cellar to take it. [4]
To now restore peace, let the military obey orders, and those not of the military leave each other alone, thus not breaking the peace themselves. [7]
Another symptom of our excited condition is seen in the breaking up of old habits. [6]
The falling masses, or huge fragments breaking off from them, would have swept the house and all around it to destruction but for this deep shelving dell, into which the stream of ruin was happily directed. [6]
He has not only taught her seventeen ways of breaking her neck, but twenty-two ways of avoiding it. [5]
She saw no one, but she heard breaking twigs, the stir of leaves, the flutter of a partridge which told of human presence. [11]
He caught them, one in each arm, swung them from the ground, and brought their heads together with a crash, breaking their skulls, and dropped them at his feet. [11]
Byng was as one fascinated; light was breaking in on his rage, his besmirched pride, his vengeance; hope was stealing tremblingly into his face. [11]
Some of that old sanity of the once healthy man was making a last effort for supremacy, breaking in upon illusive hopes and irresponsible deceptions. [11]
Yet he had often been on the point of breaking off his relations with her, for just at this time it was of infinite importance that he should keep himself free and strong in mind and body. [10]
In the case of twins, why--" "But, ma, you're breaking up the story--do let him go on. [5]
Upon the evening of this fourth day Jane seemed to feel the breaking of a brooding struggle in Lassiter. [13]
A small part of their force can retire slowly toward Nashville, breaking up the railroad as they go, and keep Buell out of that city twenty days. [7]

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