69 examples of breakage in sentences

Don't try to muzzle no breakage on me, neither, like the slut before you.

To-morrow's your day, less four bits for breakage.

Speakin' o' breakage, if you drop your jacket, it'll bust.

Your week's gone in breakage, anyways, and he'll split up the place when he comes.

If his temper yesterday made him lash the horses, upset the curricle and cause a breakage in my rib, I feel it no compensation that to-day he vows he will drive me anywhere in the gentlest manner any day as long as he lives.

And the whole increase 18.6 The causes of accident beyond the control of passengers are, Collision by opposition, Collision by overtaking, Derailment by switches misplaced, Derailment by obstacles on the track, Breakage of machinery, Failure of bridges, Fire, Explosion.

When everything had been examined and placed on its appropriate end of the table, Miss Panney called for an empty coalscuttle, into which she tumbled, without regard to spilling or breakage, the whole mass of medicaments which had been prepared or prescribed by herself, and she then requested the servant to deposit the contents of the scuttle in the ash-hole.

Boxes were packed with books, pictures, and linen; plate and china were wrapped and swaddled, to prevent breakage and bruises; carpets were taken up, and packed away; curtains taken down, and looking-glasses covered.

The staircase, too, deserves attention for its convenience, with the eccentric breakage of its flights of steps; the whole construction being so altered from the common usage of other architects as to excite astonishment in all who see it.

A very poor after-thought, let me tell you, for no thief would throw away a useful case that concealed his booty and protected it from breakage, and throw it away just so as to leave a clue as to what direction he had gone in.

[Illustration: Fig. 5.STATE OF A CAST-IRON CUPOLA AFTER THE BREAKAGE OF A VOUSSOIR.]

General Brialmont says that the metal of the cupola should be able to withstand both penetration and breakage; but these two conditions unfortunately require opposite qualities.

A metal of sufficient ductility to withstand breakage is easily penetrated, and, conversely, one that is hard and does not permit of penetration does not resist shocks well.

Upon the tempered exterior of this, projectiles of chilled iron and cast steel break upon striking, absorbing a part of their live force for their own breakage.

No other accident need be feared with this line, and the breakage described above can easily be repaired in a few minutes without requiring any skilled workman.

Chain 150 00 William Beauvoir Not accountable in case of fire, damage, moth, robbery, breakage, &c. 25% per ann.

The flowings served a triple purpose in checking the weeds and grass, stimulating the rice, and saving the delicate stalks from breakage and matting by storms.

IV TREATS PHILOSOPHICALLY OF BREAKAGE The door opened.

Property insurance is that which indemnifies for loss of one's possession in specified ways, such as by fire, by the elements at sea (marine), by hail, lightning, or cyclone, by death (of valuable animals), by robbery, and by breakage (of window glass).

It saves much liability of breakage in transferring from the dining room to the kitchen, if each kind of soiled dishes is packed by itself.

For washing glassware and fine china, papier-maché tubs are preferable to anything else, as they are less liable to occasion breakage of the ware.

There will be less danger of breakage if the china is gradually heated by allowing it to stand in a pan of warm water before being put into hot water.

" Thurstane took the lariat, inspected the breakage carefully, and scowled with helpless rage.

When goods on which the duties are levied by weight are imported into said ports in the package, the duties shall be collected on the net weight only; and in all cases an allowance shall be made for all deficiencies, leakage, breakage, or damage proved to have actually occurred during the voyage of importation, and made known before the goods are warehoused.

Casey threw up an elbow instinctively and caught him in the collar button and so avoided breakage and blood spattered around.

69 examples of  breakage  in sentences