Big Joe told him he ought to be in better business than trying to break up a pleasant party.

He warned the Indians to obey the treaty at Greeneville; but at the same time he prepared to break up the prophet's establishment if necessary.

There are no parties which break up at nine o'clock; that is, there are not in our cities.

The historical importance of the passage of these laws is that they contributed more than all other things together to break up the Federal party, and throw political power into the hands of the Republicans, as the Democrats were still called.

" The group began to break up and move down the gulch, most of the men shouting out a good-natured word or so of farewell.

I thought I would break up the trip and maybe get to see you.

Well-founded apprehensions are now entertained that the Indians and wandering Mexicans, equally lawless, may break up the important stage and postal communication recently established between our Atlantic and Pacific possessions.

But your aunt, if she isn't to break up badly, had better be carried off somewhere."

Here the horn is sometimes found to be quite yielding to the finger, is excessively thin, and is more or less granular and inclined to break up under manipulation.

"One cry no more on the ear shall grate, Convivial friends alarming, Who straightway start and separate, Blessing themselves that it is so late; To break up a party is charming!

Prints were made use of to effect the abolition of the Inquisition in Spain, and Clarkson employed them when he was laboring to break up the Slave trade, and English Abolitionists used them just as we are now doing.

Much more than a mere relic of the great forest that stretched for many miles west of Southampton Water and that in its stubborn wildness bade fair to break up the Saxon advance, the heaths of Dorset extend over a quarter of the area of the county.

It will be long before labour in America speaks with the massed effectiveness of labour in France and England, where master and man are racially identical, and where there is no variety of "Dagoes" to break up the revolt.

There were a few vicious boys in the village where she lived who always took delight in teasing and vexing the other children, and sometimes these boys would try some method to break up the children's play.

When Favonius and Ninnius got in somehow unobserved and Cato and Ateius climbed upon the shoulders of some of those standing around and being lifted up by them declared an omen directing the meeting to break up, the attendants of the tribunes drove them both out, wounded the rest who were with them and actually killed a few.

The Cabinet may break up at any moment, on differences of opinion with the President as to the rights of secession, and a new Secretary of War might stop the muskets going South, if not already on their way when he comes into office.

"One of the principal things that Horace Richmond employed me to do," said Nick to himself, "was to break up his uncle's belief in spiritualism.

What spiritual good or Christian end would be gained, to break up the charm and cheer of this his belief?

Break up the bones.

There has been another great difficulty: the season obliging all camps to break up, the poor Hanoverians have been forced to continue soaking in theirs.

You must break up your sentences, and even repeat yourself rather than be confused.

I went to break up the coal and make the fire blaze, and Richard to shut the window down.

Withdraw from a private ball-room as quietly as possible, so that your departure may not be observed by others, and cause the party to break up.

“It’s a pity our party must break up,” exclaimed my grandfather.

"P.S.I meant to tell you that of course I shall do everything in my power to break up the old friendship between George and Rowan.

He turns his eyes to another quarter and perceives the cluster of states which have formed themselves from the breakup of the Spanish continental dominions.

trial separation, breakup; annulment.

disolverse, to dissolve, separate, breakup.