Mrs Ottley listened imperturbably to Edith's story, a somewhat incoherent concoction, but told with dash and decision, that Bruce had been ordered away for a sea-voyage for fear of a nervous breakdown.

Perhaps a mental breakdown was responsible for this alteration.

When the news of his sudden breakdown became known the first natural comment was, "So, you see, he did love her after all.

Several minor breakdowns, disappointments, and vexations were needed before she would see matters eye to eye with him.

"What on earth's the matter?" she inquired, fumbling in her pocket for the key as her husband executed a clumsy but noisy breakdown on the front step.

It also told himhe had not guessed it beforethat her emotional breakdown had probably more to do with physical exhaustion than with any eloquence of his.

Sarah was half-way through high school when her brother Benjamin was born and for two years after she graduated, her mother's ill health, the familiar breakdown of the middle forties, kept her at home.

For answer Abe made a quick spring out of his chair, and in his bare feet commenced to dance a gentle, rheumatic-toe-considering breakdown, crying, "Hy-guy, Cap'n Sam'l, you've saved my life!"

The communes may have represented an attempt to set up an organization which could function independently, even in the event of a governmental breakdown in wartime.

In 1859, when the "Origin of Species" appeared, he wrote to a friend that his health had quite failed, and that indigestion, headaches, with a looming hopeless breakdown of body and mind made his life a burden and a curse.

Her instinct of going to comfort someone else was the outcome of the strife she was having not to collapse in a miserable, selfish breakdown.

"Say, do a nigger breakdown," solicited Potts.

The canker of brigandage defied all efforts to root it out, and in spite of the loans with which the royal government was supplied by the protecting powers, the public finance was subject to periodical breakdowns.

699 [Obs.]; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].

Her instinct of going to comfort someone else was the outcome of the strife she was having not to collapse in a miserable, selfish breakdown.

We learn from the Letters that Lamb had a severe nervous breakdown in the early summer of 1825 after liberation from the India House.

"It was after I had a slight breakdown and was sent back from Étaples.

The essence of tragedy is a spiritual breakdown or decline, and in the great French play the spiritual sentiment mounts unceasingly until the last line.

But it was very laborious, and the intervals between successive breakdowns grew ominously shorter and shorter.

A certain number of the temporary breakdowns or nervous prostrations, which seem to be growing more common or fashionable, may be sometimes traced to such a deficiency of normal response to the needs of everyday conflict by the adrenal gland.

And Elsie had seemedshe sadly rememberedto love her, to trust hertill this tragic breakdown.

This unexpected breakdown altered my whole relation to the project.

"It is often true that monotony and discomfort are the cause of nervous and mental breakdown, witness the often-mentioned insanity among farmers' wives and the nervous breakdowns attributable to pain and strain, even though it be, as in many cases of eyestrain, so slight as not to be recognized by the patient.

It accompanies an utter breakdown of the nervous system.

'Yes,' he said; 'nervous breakdownnervous breakdown.'