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Sentences starting with broken

Broken heads and scandal followed. [9]
Broken crockery and oyster-shells are suggestive of restaurants--but then they could have had no such places away up there on that mountain side in our time, because nobody has lived up there. [5]
Broken by her own sorrow, she had left England, Eglington--all, to keep her pledge to help him in his hour of need, to try and save him to the world, if that might be. [11]
Broken by it I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. [7]
Broken and abject he listened. [11]
Broken and bruised furniture, smashed instruments, garments torn and wet, draggled wreaths, and faded flowers were strewn in every direction. [10]
Broken meats, of course, a'n't of the same valoo as fresh provisions; so I think you might be willin' to trade reasonable. [6]
Broken Hill is close to the western border of New South Wales, and Sydney is on the eastern border. [5]
Broken columns, marble capitals, here, there and everywhere at the bottom of the lake--here a head and there a torso! [10]
Broken eggs cannot be mended; but Louisiana has nothing to do now but to take her place in the Union as it was, barring the already broken eggs. [7]

Sentences ending with broken

If the city would only burn, that his cocksure judgment might for once be mistaken, his calmness for once broken! [9]
You would know, without my telling you, that Joan's heart was nearly broken. [5]
It was closed with a silken thread, and the seal with which Epagathos had replaced the one they had broken. [10]
The church-tower on which it had once stood erect had been struck by a German shell, but its steel rod had bent and not broken. [9]
It is seven weeks since then, and it may be that the circle has been broken. [11]
From what cliff was it broken? [6]
But how great was his surprise, upon opening his door one morning, some days later, to find the grateful poodle patiently waiting there, and in its company another stray dog, one of whose legs, by some accident, had been broken. [5]
Suddenly the silence was broken. [9]
Perhaps--perhaps his heart was broken. [9]
The tyrannous habit was broken. [6]

Short sentences using broken

You've broken your word. [8]
The broken shutter was gone. [11]
This one's heart was broken. [5]
The Admiral's power was broken. [5]
But the spell was broken. [4]
You've broken me up. [11]
He seems broken up to-day. [11]
Was arm or leg broken? [11]
She had broken her word. [11]
Roxy's heart was broken. [5]

Sentences containing broken two or more times

They had piled their packing-boxes in the cellar, with broken chairs, broken china, and other household wrecks. [6]
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. [11]
When horse and rider reached the bottom, the former had a broken neck and the latter a broken leg. [5]
You may live on, but you have been broken on the wheel, and broken you always will be. [11]
It apparently consists of a lateral and broken prolongation of the mark (c), together with its confluence with a broken and prolonged part of the next spot above; but I do not feel sure of this. [1]
What was it he said--if I could but remember what Grandjon-Larisse said--ah yes, yes!--after he had given me my death-wound, he said: "It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride. [11]
A thousand scenes flashed through Valmond's brain, before his eyes, while the great wheel of torture went round, and he was broken, broken-mended and broken again, upon it. [11]
What would I do in the world with my broken fortunes and my broken heart? [13]
You had to break the pony's heart before she could be what she is--the nicest little thing that ever was broken by a man's hand; and Louise, she had to have her heart broken too. [11]

More example sentences with the word broken in them

Mebbe later, when you're broken, you might. [13]
And her eyes--ah, you should have seen them and broken your hearts. [5]
Fancy yourself, that you have broken it, and that the pieces are lying at the bottom of the sea. [10]
She told how you had followed a fox over one of your rough provincial counties, which means three of Hertfordshire, with your arm broken, by Heaven! [9]
You have not yet broken the wonderful son of the desert of shying, as you promised. [10]
And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
I could not, would not, go under the poor-law and accept you, with the lash of a broken pledge in your hand, as my guardian. [11]
This broken and worthless thing, it is true, was powerful to justify her in the opinions of her judges and her enemies; with this in her hand she would easily confute her accusers. [10]
Take back your words, mother, take back your words, or--" Katuti turned paler and paler, and said soothingly: "The words may sound hard, but he has broken faith with you, and openly dishonored you. [10]
There were high words along the railing among the duke's supporters, Captain Lewis, in his anger, going above an inference that the stallion had been broken privately. [9]
It was a wonder that the horses' legs were not broken a dozen times. [4]
He's broken a woman's heart and spoilt her life, and, if he lives, there's no chance for her, none at all. [11]
She saw a woman, in the space of an instant, mend a broken thread. [9]
My days they withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque on the tide. [11]
The dead silence with which the people in the court below had listened to him, was now broken by shrieks of rage and cries for vengeance. [10]
Renewing the attempt with the other war-club, that also was broken, but the bear fell senseless. [5]
Your aunt is with him, and his dutiful son, Philip, now broken of his rank in the English army. [9]
Grassette's face flushed with anger, for the prison had not broken his spirits; then he got up slowly. [11]
I came home with a broken hip-bone, tolerably patched up, and again, a few years later, I could not keep still in one place. [10]
And it was wise, for, had you seen him, it would have broken your poor mother heart to give him up. [10]
She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
And the man who had ruined her life and had poisoned her true spirit was come back broken and battered. [11]
And flourishing his whip he rode off at a gallop for the first time during the whole campaign, and left the broken ranks of the soldiers laughing joyfully and shouting "Hurrah! [2]
Pray that that which you have broken, you may mend again. [9]
After the bridge which united him to his uncle and paternal friend had been so suddenly broken, it was you who rebuilt it. [10]
The accident from which he had suffered had broken his nerve, stalwart as he was. [11]
But this valley where the Tent stands is for those who have broken the commandment, "Thou shalt not sell thy soul. [11]
Richard was there when they arrived, mending a broken toy. [11]
It chanced that, when an impasse seemed possible to be broken only by force, a telegram came to John Grier at Montreal telling him of the difficulty. [11]
Could he know what misery she was in, the daily witness of her father's broken condition, of her mother's uncertain temper? [4]
Daylight saw him, wet, haggard, broken, looking out over the waste of shaken water. [11]
Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
In Cairo there were only varying rumours: that he was still holding out; that he was lost; that he had broken through; that he was a prisoner--all without foundation upon which she could rely. [11]
On the hummocks were graves, graves marked by wooden crosses, others by broken rifles thrust in the ground. [9]
After the ranks were broken, Major Sherman and the Judge went to talk to Captain Lyon and the Union Leader, who was now a Colonel of one of the Volunteer regiments. [9]
When the lances were broken they were renewed. [5]
They marvelled and were awed, for never in all his days had such speech broken from this man. [9]
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
The wonderful turmoil went on--presently a bright spark sprung from a blade, and that blade broken in several pieces, sent one of its fragments flying to the ceiling. [5]
He and Anne went for a walk along the river, the surface of which was broken by lumps of yellow ice. [9]
It is not well to starve on the chance of help coming, and then die fighting with weak arms and broken spirit. [11]
I may as well add here that, as I have since learned, this is one of the most important cases of releasing right of reentry for condition broken which has been settled by arbitration for a considerable period. [6]
When we entered, we were assailed with yells in many languages, and howls in the common tongue, as if all the fiends of the pit had broken loose. [4]
Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
On the train we found several Sydney friends; among them a Judge who was going out on circuit, and was going to hold court at Broken Hill, where the celebrated silver mine is. [5]
The clue-iron which we are trying to make serve for the broken block works, however, very indifferently, and will, I am afraid, soon cut the rope. [5]
When Tom Quartz was sot once, he was always sot--and you might a blowed him up as much as three million times 'n' you'd never a broken him of his cussed prejudice agin quartz mining. [5]
A modest silence was maintained from the stoop, broken at length by Lem Hallowell, who (men said) was an exact reproduction of Jock, the meeting-house builder. [9]
Mr. Atterbury's faith was like an egg, and he took precious care not to have it broken or chipped. [9]
In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
Mr. Braham, who was in something of a pet, remarked to Mr. O'Toole that they must have been deceived, that juryman with the broken nose could read! [5]
The love that was in him, new-born and but half understood, poured itself out in broken words like her own. [11]
The other arm was broken, you see, but I didn't know it, and she didn't mention it. [5]
After the Diet was broken up, the Elector Frederick of Brandenburg was forced to take patience till the princes, lords, and mounted men-at-arms sent forth by the townships, five or six from each, could muster at his bidding to pursue the Hussites in Bohemia. [10]
Sometimes this quiet was broken by bitter news from France, of fresh persecution, and fresh struggle on the part of the Huguenots. [11]
Her cheerful voice was audible even in the hall, and when she crossed the threshold we flew to her, and the spell was broken. [10]
Don Miguel's breast was already bleeding from two wounds, and he now fell by Ulrich's side; a bullet had broken his left arm. [10]
He said he was all broken up to think I'd gotten a green watermelon. [5]
In fact, there was a nest of young mutineers just there, which must be broken up by a coup d'etat. [6]
And yet it was a comfort to him to think that he had broken his pipe. [10]
The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
And her ringing voice sank into a broken, husky whisper. [13]
It is a vision of dusty sterility, decaying temples, crumbling tombs, broken mud walls, shabby huts. [5]
Her greyhound was very ill, and it seemed that in the ill-treatment it had experienced, not only its leg had been broken, but that it had suffered some internal injury. [10]
We followed a very good road through a broken, pleasant country, gradually growing wilder and less cultivated. [4]
His dreams of vengeance were abruptly broken by a messenger, covered with dust from head to foot; he brought good news: Orion was taken and safely bestowed in the Kadi's house. [10]
His pride and vainglory were broken. [11]
Do you counsel us to fasten it anew, with a looser knot, which will hold as long as the whim of a vacillating weakling who has broken his promises to us and to Moses a score of times? [10]
You have made up your mind, haven't you, that Minnie has broken the Commandment? [9]
The boat came up to the surface, broken in twain, splintered, a load of firewood for those who raked the river lower down. [6]
Prince Andrew rode up to the hothouse; some of the glass panes were broken, and of the trees in tubs some were overturned and others dried up. [2]
The path lies up the steps from the new Massa carriage-road, now on the backbone of the ridge, and now in the recesses of the broken country. [4]
It was not until we reached the road and had begun to climb out of the valley that the silence was broken between us. [9]
Jim, drunken and unreliable, with broken will and fighting to find himself--the waste places were for him, until he was the master of his will and emotions. [11]
To save the Union, compromise after compromise was made, but each one in the end was broken. [7]
In the afternoon, under a broken sky, the rapids above the Horseshoe reminded one of the seashore on a very stormy day. [4]
At half past two in the morning the dead silence of the village was broken by a crashing explosion, and the town patrol saw the preacher's house spring in a wreck of whirling fragments into the sky. [5]
There is one twig broken among the stems of that clump of shrubs. [6]
It was in truth a dismal sight,--the shapeless timbers, the corn, planted with such care, choked with weeds, and the poor utensils of the little family scattered and broken before the door-sill. [9]
His mind was troubled, too, that he had spoken while yet Luke Claridge lived, and so broken his word to Mercy Claridge. [11]
The sound of trotting horses had ceased, and there was silence broken only by a faint, dry pattering of cottonwood leaves in the soft night wind. [13]
A shout of triumph announced that the gates, like a broken dam, had given way, and the torrent poured in between the posts, flooding the yard, pressing up the towered stairways and spreading through the compartments of the mill. [9]
It is a trephine, a surgical implement for cutting round pieces out of broken skulls, so as to get at the fragments which have been driven in, and lift them up. [3]
In the muddy trenches of Flanders and France a new comradeship has sprung up between officers and Tommies, while time-honoured precedent has been broken by the necessity of giving thousands of commissions to men of merit who do not belong to the "officer caste. [9]
He guessed that trees or protruding ledges had broken his fall, and that he had been rescued and brought here. [11]
At Utica the train was broken up, and its cars despatched in various directions. [4]
The whole vast trade-profit of Broken Hill fell into Adelaide's hands, irrevocably. [5]
After that dark town-meeting day some of those stern old fathers became broken men, and it is said in Coniston that this calamity to righteous government, and not the storm, gave to Priest Ware his death-stroke. [9]
Life, we are told, is full of incompletion, of broken destinies, of failures, of romances that begin but do not end, of ambitions and purposes frustrated, of love crossed, of unhappy issues, or a resultless play of influences. [4]
She was competent to treat it in all its phases: not merely those of personal interest, but those of duty to the broken Southern past, sentimentally dear to him, and practically absurd to her. [8]
Yet from time to time, as he rested, he saw the massive red walls growing higher and wilder, more looming and broken. [13]
We are disposed to think that there is a chance of its being broken up. [6]
I must return to the scene where I found myself when the suggestion of the broken circle ran away with my imagination. [6]
When she returned to the dining-room, arrayed in her own finery, demure, triumphant, and had carried off Mr. Whey there would ensue an interval of silence broken only by the clattering together of the dishes Hannah snatched up. [9]
We stepped in, to see how much higher broken German would raise the price. [5]
He set about to restore Rudyard, as Krool prepared a bandage for the broken head. [11]
He was obliged to release the luckless Gaul from the broken timbers of the bridge, and, when Hermon had dragged him out on the opposite bank of the canal, he made no answer to any question. [10]
They were content to reach ground again without broken necks, and take the townward track over the hill. [5]
Then he began to rake the ashes, and, suddenly bending down, seized something in them,--the broken bowl of an Indian pipe. [9]
To expect them to live without frequent twinges is like expecting a doctor's old chaise to go without creaking; if it did, we might be sure the springs were broken. [3]

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