124 Verbs to Use for the Word break

In fixing responsibility for Caporetto, one must draw a sharp distinction between responsibility for the original break in a narrow sector of the line, and responsibility for not making good that break, before the situation had got hopelessly out of hand.

He's got such a break he's clean bowled me again and again.

This necessarily caused a break in the proceedings.

I saw the morning break!"

The creek will stop them down yonder, and we must watch this break in the brush.

Sherman was eying every inch of the bank until, suddenly reaching a break where fresh tracks of a horse were visible, he directed his orderly to follow, and plunged into the water.

I have known a square of grenadiers break and scatter at the very sight of him.

The Boy began to feel that, if he did finally say something it would be as surprising as to hear an aged monkey break into articulate speech.

At 5.0 a.m. left the camp with Mr. H. Gregory, and recommenced the search for a practicable descent into the valley, and about two miles from the camp found a break in the cliff.

He was walking south and on the best lighted and most beautiful street in town, but his eyes were forever seeking a break in the long line of fence which marked off the grounds of a seemingly interminable stretch of neighbouring mansions, and when a corner was at last reached, he dashed around it and took a straight course for Huested Street, down which he passed with quickened steps and an air of growing assurance.

" In the afternoon, they went on, still following the fire-break, down to where it is intersected by the pipe-line a mile from the reservoir on the hill above the power-house; then back to Oak Knoll, again on the pipe-line trail all the waya beautiful and never-to-be-forgotten walk.

I need a clean break.

Far away, Marcos could perceive a recurrent break in the dusty line.

This meant that a man or men had to be sent out along the line to find and repair the break, and that until this was done, no telephone message could pass between that portion of the forward line and the headquarters in the rear.

She continued in a tempest of expostulation whose fury covered her break: "Even if you were once a thief and my mothermy mother!everything vile, as you persist in trying to make me believeGod knows why!it is possible I may still have failed to inherit your criminal tendencies; and not only possible, but true, if I know myself at all.

We reached the summit of the island by following up a ravine, which formed the only break in the cliffs that faced the South-East side of the island.

At the gap where the Galena trail crosses the fire-break, they again turned aside to make their leisure way along the broad, brush-cleared break that lies in many a fold and curve and kink like a great ribbon on the thin top of the ridge.

" To this Mr. Bradlaugh added the following: "I need hardly add to this how very deeply I regret the necessity for Mrs. Besant's resignation of the joint editorship of this Journal, and the real grief I feel in accepting this break in a position in which she has rendered such enormous service to the Freethought and Radical cause.

FERDINAND FALLS FROM THE WAR WAGON This was the push that brought the break.

But intermittent communication was maintained by runners, and signallers were out, hour after hour, mending breaks in the line and showing their invariable gallantry.

No doubt his associates knew that he was pressed for money and could not risk a break.

De la Marck found his retreat cut off, and bade his lieutenant break through if he could, and escape.

Kohlhaas suddenly raised his foot with such terrible force that the kick, had it landed, would have meant death; then, without answering, he mounted his bay horse, stationed himself under the gateway of the castle, and, while his men continued their work of destruction, silently awaited the break of day.

Plays that had won game after game went wrong and youth was not resourceful enough to offset the breaks.

Engine trouble, perhapsthough she could detect no break in the huge, rhythmic pulsing that was shaking the night.

124 Verbs to Use for the Word  break