By the aid of my indulgent mother, who was seriously alarmed for what she saw I suffered, I was able to see Fatima, and to make her the bearer of a letter to Veenah, complaining of her breach of faith, and soliciting an interview.

As he watched his men hauling the boats up the rapids he "prayed them up as he used to do the troops when they wavered in the breaches in China".

"Come, Phil: if it will please you, not to make a breach,the first breach between us,you shall have your way.

So the Colonel filled in the breach with "My old Kentucky Home," which he sang with much feeling, if not great art.

It was a hazardous duty, exposing them to peril of their lives; but these brave young fellows executed their task in safety, and, unobserved by the enemy, few of whom seemed to be keeping watch on the ramparts, returned to report the perfect practicability of the breaches for escalade.

"A custom more honor'd in the breach than the observance."

In the breach at Taitsan he came across two of the men he formerly had under his command.

The mother could never conceive a son of the house of Sprague making such a breach on the family traditions as a union with a Boone.

The waves of derision were stayed by no barrier, but made a clear breach over you.

The boat had drifted across the lake and had struck broadside agin the shore, and the waves were makin' a clean breach into her at every surge.

He did not, like some other sovereigns, enter by a breach through the constitutional liberties of his country, in imitation of the conquerors from the Olympic games, who returned to the city by a breach in its walls: he went forward borne on the enthusiastic greetings of his fellow-countrymen, and meeting their confidence by a full measure of magnanimity.

No consciousness of having committed any breach against the laws of hospitality.

Except for the breach by which they had entered, the blotched and spotted compound walls stood ruinous yet high, shutting out all but a rising slant of sunlight, and from some outpost line of shops, near by, the rattle of an abacus and the broken singsong of argument, now harsh, now drowsy.

Meanwhile the first column under Nicholson escaladed the breaches near the Cashmere gate, and pushed along the ramparts toward the Kabul gate, carrying the several bastions in the way.

The party moved forward about 8 o'clock, and entered the fort through the breaches without firing a shot, and it soon appeared the enemy had evacuated the place.

In nine tenths of the cases, the dam is breached along the line of the water outlet passages.

Such an admission will be a day of reckoning that German Imperialism will postpone until the last hope of some breach among the Allies, some saving miracle in the old Eastern Empire, some dramatically-snatched victory at the eleventh hour, is gone.

My lord, in your great grandfather's time there was, I remember, such a breach amongst them; therefore my counsel is that, after his example, by the strength of your authority you convene them before you.

Therefore, of course, this law itself was as much demonstrated in the breach as in the observance.

Montgomery wanted to make a breach before trying the walls.

so; you must be ground i'th' breach like a Top, you'I ne're spin well else: Farewell Fytchock.

It had been slow coming, but ruthlessly now, he traced his way back from one breach to another, and finally to that night in the plaza at Alphonso, when he had been enabled to see service from a unique and winning angle, through the pack-train cook.

Now I saw that the small river did go onward, and did make a breach across the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk; and I determined in my heart that I should leave the water, which was now grown nigh to a bitter cold, in that it was so long upon the face of the Land.