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.

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.

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.

Hurrying on, faster and faster, until even Tom was nearly out of breath, the savages, without exchanging a word among themselves, continued their flight (for such it seemed), carefully avoiding even the breaking of a twig, or anything that could furnish a clue to those who might come in pursuit.

Makes his bed (he has never allowed anyone to make his bed for him) and because it is still dark has to lie across the bed to await the breaking of day.

At that moment the young man was struggling with the bitterest sorrow that can befall youththe breaking up of his life-purpose.

Gloria did not wait for him, but began the tedious breaking of a path the few feet to the hole, too earnest in the endeavour even to note how Gratton came along behind without suggesting that it was the man's place to break trail.

So the minutes passed, bringing them ever nearer the breaking of another day.

And so the months went by, until the midsummer vacation was near at hand, and the great party which was to celebrate the breaking up of school, was about to come off.

This brought back to her mind the subject of Jane Pratt, and she wondered if Jane had really taken her seriously when she had demanded that she confess her breaking of the camp rule; if Jane would really tell Mrs. Grayson herself, or force her to inform upon her.

Robert Stevens had gone with him, and although Mr. Lawrence explained that Bacon's wife was ill, and he had gone to visit her, yet Berkeley, ever suspicious, construed his sudden breaking of his parole into open hostility, and prepared to treat it accordingly.

[All have involuntarily taken off their caps, and contemplate the breaking of day, absorbed in silence.]

He kept himself for a time above water: the little boys, all gathered round the opening, tried to hand him poles; but the ice continued breaking, and he was still floating out of reach.

" "It may be done," said Miss Lavinia; "and do not understand me, child, to counsel an abrupt and violent breaking off of all the ties between yourself and this young man.

It deceives us with no false hopeswith no breakings in the serried cloudswith

When I discussed the case of broken laws, I told you fairly that the Government denied the breaking of the laws, and make their own argument to showI suppose they think they showthat they did not break the laws.

Their success, by ensuring the breaking of the blockade, would alone have been worth more to them than the winning of several battles.

The observation was just, Miss Martin said; for that nothing could excuse the breaking of a solemn vow, be the occasion of making it what it would.

The southern Indians have experienced an extensive breaking up, in their social institutions, and been thrown, by the process of emigration, west of the Mississippi, and the policy of the government on this head, which was first shadowed out in 1825, and finally sanctioned by the act of land exchanges, 1830, may be deemed as having been practically settled.

Where it rests on forms of injustice, it must be broken or destroyed, and there is no reason to fear the breaking.

The foot at the turnpike were not able to hinder our breaking through, so we made our way out, killing about 150 of them, and put the rest into confusion.

Forsake, which may involve no culpability, usually implies a breaking off of intimate association or attachment.

I cannot speak from experience of the winds or weather during the month of April, at Swan River, but have been told that the seabreezes are moderate, and the land winds of longer duration; calms are frequentand the weather altogether seems to indicate the breaking up of the summer season; light winds are occasionally felt from the northward, with a dull, gloomy appearance between that point and South-West.