So broken was the ground that Santa Anna could not see the amount of force opposed to him, and declined the combat.

The break with Southey was the natural result of attempting to force through a scheme impracticable in itself and doubly impracticable for the men who conceived it.

Break was a more uncertain quantity.

Break is the broader term.

The break is no disadvantage if they attack; in fact, we'd rather like to have them try for it.

The singular break in the high land on the latter, bearing East 1/2 North is a distant guide to the anchorage, in which the flood-tide sets to the northward, and when aided by the current, attains a strength of a knot and a half; the time of high-water, is a quarter of an hour later than at Refuge Cove.

En fin'lly Mars Johnson 'lowed dat he could n' do nuffin wid 'im; dat ef he wuz his nigger, he 'd break his sperrit er break 'is neck, one er de yuther.

Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

Indeed, that was a moral duty in that the break with the two countries with which Italy had been in alliance for thirty-three years became a matter not only of honesty but of duty solely through the injustice of the cause for which they had proclaimed an offensive war.

I must however observe in this Place, that the breaking off the Combat between Gabriel and Satan, by the hanging out of the Golden Scales in Heaven, is a Refinement upon Homers Thought, who tells us, that before the Battle between Hector and Achilles, Jupiter weighed the Event of it in a pair of Scales.

The semi-erect ear should drop nicely over at the tips, the break being about three-quarters up the ear, and both forms of ears should terminate in a sharp point.

" "Is that your reliance?" broke in Eunané.

"Ninety-nine of my readers out of a hundred, and I dare say, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand, will shudder at the thought of tearing about in this manner; thinking that breaking-off, tearing-off, cutting-off the roots of such large plants, just as they are coming into bloom, must be a sort of work of destruction.

Doubtless in earlier days, when the art of training was less thoroughly understood, the breaking of a dog was a matter of infinite trouble to breeders.

The breaking of the only compass on board would be an irreparable misfortune.

There shall be no charge for breakage unless breaking is wilful or gross carelessness.

The breaking of a cup was a family disaster if it could not be replaced.

The gray breaking of dawn, the coming of brighter light, the rose and silver of the rising sun, and the riding in its face, with the air so tangy and nipping, were circumstances that inspired me as the adventurous start pleased Romer.

I am ashamed that this breaking of the long ice should be a letter of business.

The breaking of the cedar was a visible outward fragment of a distant and mysterious encounter that was coming daily closer to them both.

The room was so still that the breaking of a blazing log on the andirons was a pleasant relief.

The breaking of the engagement was with him, now, merely a question of timeliness, of discretion and expediency.

Even the window-breaking, though a perilous approach to the methods of the Pagan male, was only a damage to insensitive material for which the window-breakers were prepared to pay in conscious suffering.

Indeed the Cup-bearer, Sir Hinz, went so far as to declare to some hunting-pages and courtiers who had gathered round him after dinner in the Elector's antechamber that the breaking up of the marauding band in Lützen had been but a cursed pretense.

In that case the breaking of the nut is perhaps only an accident, due to its not being so hard as the holy man's skull.