17 Metaphors for breakings

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.

To a life like hers it was only an incident, the mere turning of a page of the illimitable book of youth; the breaking up of what she now felt had become a monotony.

Here St. Paul lappeth up all things together, signifying unto us that love is the consummation of the law; for this commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," is contained in this law of love: for he that loveth God will not break wedlock, because wedlock-breaking is a dishonoring of God and a serving of the devil.

Although the police seem to think that the breaking in is clearly the work of a regular criminalfrom the jimmy-marks, you know, and so on.

The breaking up of the big floes is certainly a hopeful sign.

"You may have fallen into some oversights, or mistakes; but this breaking of the commandments is rather serious sort of work.

17 Metaphors for  breakings