40507 examples of broke in sentences

Mrs. Millar fairly broke down at this, and sobbed and cried as much as the child.

And then my grandfather fairly broke down, and sobbed like a child, whilst my father grasped him tightly with one hand, and put the other on my shoulder.

Yet, if it be your wills, forgive the sin I have committed, let it not fall Upon this understanding child of mine, She has not broke your Laws; but how can I, Look to be heard of gods, that must be just, Praying upon the ground I hold by wrong?

A] if she has not broke your lawes, but how could I. l. 36.

She broke down two benches in Trinity Gardens, one on the confines of St. John's, which occasioned a litigation between the societies as to repairing it.

Was she guilty, then, after all? With the quick eyes of love, she saw the change; and broke out passionately, "Yes; suspect me!

I walk slow, and hate a bustle, and if it had not been for my pipe and tobacco, should, I verily believe, have broke my heart for poor Sir Murtagh.

Lawrence gazed blankly at her for a moment, and then he broke into a laugh.

Our Author in his first Edition had divided his Poem into ten Books, but afterwards broke the seventh and the eleventh each of them into two different Books, by the help of some small Additions.

His Master was impatient to know the Success of his Proposal, and therefore broke open the Letter privately to see the Contents.

The Man still ventur'd a third Step, when the Statue with a furious Blow broke the Lamp into a thousand Pieces, and left his Guest in a sudden Darkness.

It broke from him to several Boats that passed by us upon the Water; but to the Knight's great Surprize, as he gave the Good-night to two or three young Fellows a little before our Landing, one of them, instead of returning the Civility, asked us what queer old Put we had in the Boat, and whether he was not ashamed to go a Wenching at his Years?

You know, there's most of to-morrow" "Oh, no," Carmen broke in hastily.

I had scarcely entered the convent before the yellow fever broke out and raged with fearful intensity.

"Den de wah broke out, an' w'en it wuz ober de cullud folks wuz scattered.

"Did you hear the newspipe has broke?" when the Atlantic Telegraph Cable parted.

Then his voice grew graver as he asked: "When are you going to tell me that I am forgiven, Katherine?" Something in the look on his face reminded her of the day when she had risked her life to save him from the flood, and the memory broke down the rampart of offended pride which had sprung up in her heart when Mr. Clay made his astounding revelation.

Say the three hundred and fifty-three gentlemen of the District of Abbeville and Edgefield in South Carolina, who, the last year, broke up a system of oral religious instruction, which the Methodist Conference of that State had established amongst their slaves: "Intelligence and slavery have no affinity for each other."

The spontaneousness of all this is quaintly and forcibly expressed by the great Tory historian Hutchinson, who tells us that in the year 1619 a house of burgesses broke out in Virginia!

This stream crossed the floor of the valley, serving to water the farms, and, making its way out of the lower end by a similar curious angle, broke off sharply and hid itself among the rocks on its way out and down from the mountainslast trace of a giant geology which once dealt in continental terms, rivers once seas, valleys a thousand miles in length.

Besides the questions that broke in upon him from all quarters, the two Buzzbys junior scrambled, as far as was possible, into his pockets, pulled his whiskers as if they had been hoisting a main-sail therewith, and, generally, behaved in such an obstreperous manner as to render coherent discourse all but impracticable.

The first thing she saw when day broke forth wos a big ship, bearin' right down on her, and she wos jist about run down when one o' the men observed her from the bow.

But at length the morning light broke up the party, and stories of the World of Ice came to an end.

He and his interesting spouse had evidently lived a cat-and-dog life throughout the three years of their marriage, but the countercharges brought against him broke down completely.

Back home and broke.

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