A breakdown gang appeared and a number of new tractors and lorries with refills of petrol.

The breakdown of the German offensive was attributed by the Allies to three thingsthe increase in the Russian ammunition supply, a German shortage of munitions, and the weakening of the German line for the Balkan campaign.

This unexpected breakdown altered my whole relation to the project.

I force myself to keep going when I wonder how the miserable machine responds to my urging, and I shall keep it going, after a fashion, until the final breakdown.

"Breakdown," said the professor briefly.

When the news of his sudden breakdown became known the first natural comment was, "So, you see, he did love her after all.

"What on earth's the matter?" she inquired, fumbling in her pocket for the key as her husband executed a clumsy but noisy breakdown on the front step.

His biographer says that the resulting "emotional strain doubtless was contributory to his breakdown at Oxford" and to his enforced absence for a recuperative trip on the continent.

Every increase of knowledge, every improvement of communication, every breakdown of international or local barriers, increases the advantage of the big business, and makes the struggle for existence among small businesses more keen and more hopeless.

He darted into an adjoining room and came back in a minute dragging a half-frightened, half-pleased little Belgian scullery maid and whirled her about to waltz music until she dropped for want of breath to carry her another turn; after which he did a soloTeutonic versionof a darky breakdown, stopping only to join in the next song.

A murder in the Strand to that tobacconist was less than the breakdown of a motor bus opposite Putney Station; and a change of government less than a change of programme at the Putney Empire.

Oh, Katherine, I am afraid this long terrible winter has killed him," she said, with a quiver of breakdown in her voice.

The original idea, at least on the United Presbyterian side, had been that all the negotiating bodies should be welded into one comprehensive British Church; but this, especially in view of the breakdown of the larger Union, proved to be unworkable, and the final result for the United Presbyterians was that they came out of the negotiations a considerably smaller and weaker Church than they had been when they went into them.

They are said to be just the thing to carry in the tool-box in case of a breakdown.

Very sorrowful, indeed, is the history, told so openly, so simply, so touchingly, of the once promising advance, of the great breakdown.

The breakdown of American marriage.

The breakdown of American marriage.

In supernormal states however we may assume that with the breakdown of some barrier life flows in like a tidal wave, paralyzing the reason, and therefore presenting itself in an irrational manner to consciousness.

The more I considered it and him, the more nervous I became; and the more nervous, the more convinced that my own breakdown was only a matter of time.

I can trace it directly to an impression made on my memory about two years earlier, before my breakdown.

No fair-minded man can find fault with this condition of affairs, for an inherent dread of insanity leads to distrust of one who has had a mental breakdown.

It may come about that some day something will be found which will prevent a complete and incurable mental breakdown...." Thus did I, as revealed by these rather crude, unrevised quotations, somewhat prophetically, if extravagantly, box the compass that later guided the ship of my hopes (not one of my phantom ships) into a safe channel, and later into a safe harbor.

The only approach to a breakdown comes when, after paying her little billyou may be sure that not an omelette nor a broken window will be missing from the accountand wishing her "Bonne chance!"

Psychological forces played a part in the breakdown and break-up of Roman civilization.

And Elsie had seemedshe sadly rememberedto love her, to trust hertill this tragic breakdown.