" She spoke in English hurriedly, with a little break in her voice which he did not understand.

The sudden break in her voice, the change in her face, the shadowing of the blue eyesthese were eloquent.

At the same instant a great glare of light breaks upon the scene from a bonfire of tar-barrels, ignited at the higher end of the cross-road by young SMALLEY; and, to the mingled bewilderment and exasperation of Mr. BUMSTEAD, the radiance reveals, as in noonday, Mr. SCHENCK and his long-lost nephew standing before him; and, coming towards them in festive procession from Gospeler's Gulch.

"No hitting in clinches, and clean breaks," he said.

I knew his life exactly,what he did almost at every hour of the day; under what circumstances of the temperature he would ride and when walk; how often and with what guests he would indulge in the occasional break of a dinner-party, a serious pleasure,perhaps, indeed, less a pleasure than a duty.

They had also evidently descended into the depths of the canon wherever there was the slightest break or even lowering in the upper line of basalt cliffs.

Accent, alliteration, and an abrupt break in the middle of each line gave their poetry a kind of martial rhythm.

This made a pleasant break in the dreary round of her married life.

But quick they back recoil, and wisely check Their eager haste; then o'er the fallowed ground How leisurely they work, and many a pause Th' harmonious concert breaks; till more assured With joy redoubled the low valleys ring.

I confess the relief was great, as we had endured six days of incessant strain on our nerves, never knowing when a turn of the road might bring us to an impassable break, or when the conglomerate cliffs beetling above might shed a boulder or two upon us!

When man's prospects are at the worst, it often happens that some unexpected success breaks on his path like a bright sunbeam.

There were far-stretching grassy prairies, affording rich pasturage for the buffalo and the antelope; rough breaks and bad lands for the climbing mountain sheep; wooded buttes, loved by the mule deer; timbered river bottoms, where the white-tailed deer and the elk could browse and hide; narrow, swampy valleys for the moose; and snow-patched, glittering pinnacles of rock, over which the sure-footed white goat took his deliberate way.

" I knew then, of course, that I'd made another awful break.

"Such a visit as yours is an agreeable break in my routine work.

" I made a foolish break by admitting that I possessed any knowledge of Polynesia.

Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briers, nail me through.'

We began our survey of modern English literature at the Renaissance because the discovery of the New World, and the widening of human experience and knowledge, which that and the revival of classical learning implied, mark a definite break from a way of thought which had been continuous since the break up of the Roman Empire.

This conjecture the low land in the head of the bay, together with a singular break in the distant hills seemed fully to justify.

It was only a temporary break in the weather, and the fog came down again so thick that neither the positions of the Bethlehem defences nor those of Beit Jala could be reconnoitred.

The remarkable breaks in this singularly great extent of coral reefs, known as the Barrier of Australia, being in direction varying from West to West-North-West generally speaking North-West, leads me to believe that the upheaval by which the base of this huge coral building was formed, partakes of the general north-westerly direction, in which a large portion of the eastern world apparently emerged from the water.

Such merry-makings were attended from far and near, offering a most welcome break to the dreariness of life on the lonely clearings in the midst of the forest.

Prisoners get better break than mental patients in California.

At the end of the clear ice was a narrow break in the shore, where a creek ran into the main stream.

A lucky break, a farce comedy in three acts; a reproduction of the original professional performance by Nathaniel Edward Reeid.

" They had reached a broad break in the cottonwoods; the moonlight was falling so softly and brightly.