The rider was a handsome, slim young fellow, dressed as were the other cowboys present, and he came on at a breakneck speed that seemed only warranted by an errand of life and death.

" Presently he rose, and, getting rather clumsily into his sleigh, drove back at the usual breakneck pace to the palace at the upper end of the English Quay.

It was really a breakneck sort of excursion, which is very rarely made even by the officers, and certainly never by ladies.

Now what comfort can you find, may I ask, in such a blazing breakneck seat?

The machine, of light construction, shook violently, negotiated the steep places with jumps and slid down on the other side with breakneck velocity.

Every one held an officer or two, if only an un-uniformed bank-officer or captain of police, and rattled up or down this street and that, taking corners at breakneck risks.

I and my veteran cavass, Hadji Houssein, broke through with a guest,Colonel Borthwick, an English officer in the Turkish service,escaping down a breakneck hillside in the dark to save him and his two orderlies from capture by the insurgents, a trifling thing for us who were known as the friends of the Cretans, but a serious matter possibly for Turkish soldiers in fez and uniform.