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

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.

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

It did not seem to surprise him in the least, for after all his visit was the cause of the sudden breaking up of the party, wasn't it?"

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

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.

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.

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

How to make use of Christ for taking the guilt of our daily out-breakings away.

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

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.

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

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

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

This state of affairs, the gradual breaking up of the Tory party dating from the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, the brewing social troubles, and the prospect of power crossing to the party which was determined on meeting them with reform, made politics everywhere the most absorbing of themes.

Perhaps in the preliminary breaking in of the pony there is more roughness than is quite necessary.

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

The sixteenth century cannot be compared with the nineteenth century in the variety and scope of scientific discoveries; but, compared with the ages which had preceded it, it was a memorable epoch, marked by the simultaneous breaking up of the darkness of mediaeval Europe, and the bursting forth of new energies in all departments of human thought and action.

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

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

On the other hand, in France there is very little house-breaking, and bigamy is almost impossible, so that we hear delightfully little about them:

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.

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

Of course, you have none in me?" He laughed suddenly, and the sound was jarring and startling, like the unexpected breaking of plates in a quiet room.