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.

This necessarily caused a break in the proceedings.

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

I saw the morning break!"

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.

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

When police agents tried to bring about riots and strikes, the workmen's own leaders prevented their breaking out.

He was silent a moment; Mr. Heatherbloom thought he heard the breaking of the stem of a flower.

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.

It meant the breaking of a woman's heartthat of the only woman in the world, the woman he worshipped, body and soul, the woman who in spite of herself had come to love him also.

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.

By so doing they cause a breaking up of the sugar and a rearrangement of its elements.

While the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome have largely perished in the convulsions that followed the breaking up of the Roman empire in Europe, when the kingdom of China fell into disorder and decrepitude this one great teacher stepped forward to save the precious record of historic fact, philosophical thought, and of legislation as well as poetry, from being swept away by the deluge of revolution.

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.

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

" 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.

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.

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.

I need a clean break.

The controlling policies should include advance in efficiency and generally in the quality of work turned out, but this advance should not involve a break in the output.

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

Indeed, Lenore felt then a break in the strange aloofness of himin his impersonal, gentle acceptance of her relation to him.

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