A specimen of this class is the complaint relative to the rupture of the Dam of St. Denis of Sig, of which the following is the commencement: "A great disaster was fated: The cavalier gave the alarm, at the moment of the break; The menace was realized by the Supreme Will, My God!

The Burmese were then on the eve of a rupture with the East India Company, a fact which we had not before known; and mistaking us for English, they supposed, or affected to suppose, that we belonged to a fleet which was about to invade them, and that our ship had been sunk before their eyes, by the tutelar divinity of the country.

" That same evening there came a complete rupture between herself and her husband.

I think it probable that neither the poet's device nor the cardinal's speech were forgotten, when, in the course of the next year, the parties came to a rupture in consequence of the servant's refusing to attend his master into Hungary.

During the reign of Mr. Cousins there was a rupture at the place, and many combative letters were written with reference to it.

The flexor perforans tendon showed inflammatory softening, and was very nearly ruptured through at the level of the navicular bone.

Aarsens accepted these presents with the approbation of Prince Maurice, to whom he had confided the circumstance, and who was no doubt delighted at what promised a rupture to the negotiations.

The heart is often overstrained, and at times has been ruptured during violent exertion, as in lifting an immense weight.

Some of them wanted to go on board, but not liking their appearance and fearful of a rupture by being obliged to refuse them many things that were about the decks, and which they would certainly ask for, I desired Mr. Bedwell to divert them from their wish.

And during the following months, the rebellion was taking form in the Southern States, but did not culminate in open rupture until the middle of April.

Soon after 1830 they had an open rupture on a matter of business, which was never really healed, though the then Puritanic precisian sent a message of relenting to Mrs. Leigh on her death-bed (1851).

Results: The conditions of ultimate rupture due to torsion appear not to be governed by definite mathematical laws; but where the material is not overstrained, laws may be assumed which are sufficiently exact for practical cases.

Emily writes in 1841: "The Gondaland are at present in a threatening state, but there is no open rupture as yet.

The bell, ruptured beyond repair by the demon's violent exit, was taken back and deposited in the museum of the town.