417 examples of ruptures in sentences

They die suddenly, from ruptures of blood vessels.

This court has already justified its creation and existence by the settlement of contentions which in other days led to disastrous wars, and even in this enlightened age might have precipitated serious ruptures.

Let us not hasten, however, to cry out against falsehood and hypocrisy; most honorable and sincere men have believed that they would do more harm than good by bringing on a rupture with the South.

Let us not forget that political rupture is complicated here with religious rupture.

Looking only at the province of interests, is it easy to imagine an irremediable rupture between New York and Charleston, between the valley of the Mississippi and New Orleans?

It was next supposed that Mr. Lincoln's Government had conceived the ingenious project (such things are gravely printed and find men to believe them!) of seeking of itself a rupture with England.

This being so, by the acknowledgment of the English themselves, who will be willing to admit that any will be found bold enough to cause an irretrievably fatal rupture to grow out of a quarrel of this kind, concerning the mode of procedure.

Liverpool has, this time, given the signal, Lancashire urges on the rupture; behind the national honor, there may be something else.

It would make the rupture more easy to him, he thought, if he were once convinced that she sacrificed herself, and that in keeping her with him longer he was only gratifying his monstrous selfishness.

Pascal had met his mother the day before in the Rue de la Banne, and, impatient to consummate the sacrifice, and not finding in himself the strength to make the rupture, he had confided in her, in spite of his repugnance, and begged her to come on the following day.

These gradually increase in size until, finally, they rupture the skin and appear as rootlets.

It is equally certain that, during peaceful times, the two schooners and sixty gunboats, constituting the number of the above-mentioned cruising vessels, would be in great measure useless; whilst in case of a rupture, they are not sufficient to protect the trade of these Islands from the attacks of an enemy, notwithstanding they now cost the government considerable sums in repairs, etc., in order to keep them fit for service.

[Footnote 2: Compare Alfred de Mussel's description of a similar experience of his own, after his rupture with George Sand, which occurred in Venice in 1834 during the Italian journey.

On the very day that Mitchell had made up his mind to retreat, the long threatened rupture took place.

But, to my eyes, aided by the light of the dim wax taper, it was no violent rupture, such as an earthquake would produce, and the rock did not appear to be the same as that of which Jerusalem is built.

The only conclusion which could really have satisfied herthough she, in all probability, did not know itwould have been an outburst which would have justified a rupture, and allowed her to protest against his tyranny as she now proceeded to protest against his complacency.

It requires notice because her subsequent account of the rupture has given rise to attacks on Johnson's character.

" No immediate rupture followed the abandonment of the Streatham establishment.

But I was anxious to avoid a rupture and gain time.

It may be repliedif the abolitionists are such firm friends of the Union, why do they persist in what must end in its rupture and dissolution?

Besides the above-mentioned complaints, I have observed insanity, epilepsy, spasmodic affections of the face, ruptures of all kinds (which last are produced by their loose kind of trowsers); nervous consumptions, extreme debility, and dropsy, brought on by their indolent manner of living, and the great abuses of violent doses of drastic medicines.

Between 1468 and 1477, from the incident at Peronne to the death of Charles at the siege of Nancy, the history of the two princes was nothing but one constant alternation between ruptures and re-adjustments, hostilities and truces, wherein both were constantly changing their posture, their language, and their allies.

There are understandings that expand, not imperceptibly hour by hour, but as certain flowers do, by little explosive ruptures, with periods of quiescence between.

Finally the beam ruptures at the bottom.

Here, too, were the quacks such as you might see at any fair in Europequack dentists, quack medicine-men, men with ointments for healing sores, men with pills, and little bottles of bright liquid, and tricks for ruptures and broken legs and arms.

417 examples of  ruptures  in sentences