and the Boy danced a breakdown on the roof till the others had come out, and then he hurled the moose-meat down over the stockade, and sent the placard flying after.

"It is too early to try to interest anyone in this scheme of preventing breakdowns, as there are other things of more importance to be brought about firstbut it will surely come in time.

"What on earth's the matter?" she inquired, fumbling in her pocket for the key as her husband executed a clumsy but noisy breakdown on the front step.

It will mark the breakdown of what has never yet broken down in any part of the worldthe breakdown of British statesmanship.

Sooner or later he would learn that they were hopeless, and Sinclair dreaded the breakdown which he knew would follow that discovery.

Having a relapse into the malady that had followed my breakdown in Switzerland, which was exaggerated by the heat of Rome, I was ordered by my physician to Ariccia to recruit, and I left my apartment, which was also the consulate, and took quarters at the little Ariccian inn which was the resort of the artists at that date.

" The group on the floor, undoubtedly, liked that part of the entertainment that involved the breakdown, infinitely the best of all, but simultaneously, at its wildest moment, they all turned their heads to the door.

" She smiled her enchanting smile; and Anne, observing the breakdown of dignity, got up off the bed and kissed her.

His principle of "universal love" reflects the breakdown of the clans and the general weakening of family bonds which had taken place.

The chronic state of the acute phenomenon, known as the nervous breakdown, really represents in them a breakdown of the reserves of the adrenals, and an elimination of their factor of safety.

For the sake of her handsome boy, who had a hero's courage, and for the tiny girl who clung to her, she resisted this breakdown and conquered herself.

'Yes,' he said; 'nervous breakdownnervous breakdown.'

The messenger who brought the telegram whistled shrilly and shuffled a breakdown on the doorstep while he waited to hear if there was an answer.

And Elsie had seemedshe sadly rememberedto love her, to trust hertill this tragic breakdown.

It accompanies an utter breakdown of the nervous system.

And we don't want another breakdown. . . .

The head of the family, true to the spirit of the age, had achieved a nervous breakdown and was under instructions from his physician to betake himself upon a long, a very long, vacation.

The conduct of the Germans had brought about a nervous breakdown.

They were all convinced of his guilt, had no doubt as to what the sentence of the court would bedeath and degradationbut thought that physical fatigue and great depression must have caused a general breakdown.