You'll break the wire if you don't mind," suggested her father, piteously.
I begged you, if you should go to England, to break the truth to my wife.
The Stuarts needed the Bourbons in their attempt to establish an autocratic form of government and to break the power of Parliament.
But such a roof, if it became too heavy, was apt to break the walls, just as a man of three hundred pounds sitting down upon a child's chair will force it to collapse.
I break the agreement, Rachel, every time I see you.
Round the sides of his head--without the slightest gradation of grey to break the force of the extraordinary contrast--it had turned completely white.
Well, she has taken a sudden resolution to break the engagement.
She was the first, this time, to break the silence.
As you know how strongly her ladyship sympathizes with the Duke, she contrived to break the tendon of her foot, the very day that his leg was in such danger.
Lord Winchilsea, who is her uncle, and who has married the other sister very loosely to his own relation, Lord Guernsey, has tied up Lord Granby so rigorously that the Duke of Rutland has endeavoured to break the match.
You will, with the properest good-nature in the world, break the news to the poor girl, whom I pity, though I never saw.
If you will do me the favor to accompany me to my own apartments, I will with great pleasure supply the red stockings and dagger.
Russia has not only gained a great victory on land, but has defeated him at sea, and has burnt his fleet.
What business is it of yours, whom I receive or entertain?
Go where you will, I wish you all the distinction of an honourable prison-house, and a safe and speedy deliverance in God's own time.
I have been enjoying my time just now at least," said the Earl, rising from table, and picking his teeth carelessly.
Peveril finding himself in front of a handsome portico, under which opened a stately pair of folding-doors, was about to ascend the steps that led to the main entrance, when his guide seized him by the arm, exclaiming.
The English is according to the time it was written in, and the sense somewhat dark, but not so hard but that it may be understood of such as will not stick to break the shell of the nut for the kernel's sake.
I am sure I can't break the enchantment," he said.
However, I never took the trouble to learn just how to break the charm I cast over Shaggy's brother, for I intended he should always remain ugly.
It is that loud and turbulent Galilean, That came here at the Feast of Dedication, And stirred the people up tobreak the Law!
I swear, I love you even to madness, and that love Has driven me to break the rules of custom, And force myself unasked into your presence.
Now, I don't mind Spiritualism and those sort of things; they might help tobreak the monotony, and can't do much harm.
His majesty had compassion on the king of Persia, and earnestly besought his queen to break the enchantment, that he might return to his own form.
Saying this, she arose, and took up a stone to break the lock, which was only of wood, and weak, according to the fashion of the country.
Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the nations.
But when he was come to Ptolemais, the men of that city were much displeased with the conditions of the peace, being angry for fear they should break the covenant.
From time to time Hay wrote humorous laments, but nothing occurred to break the summer-peace of the stranded Tannhauser, who slowly began to feel at home in France as in other countries he had thought more homelike.
Charles Sumner aspired to break the succession, but not the system.
MY DEAR DUKE: -- It is of the utmost importance and urgency that the ironclads building at Birkenhead should not go to America to break the blockade.
From pavement to pavement, and covering the sidewalks, it lay there, spread out quite evenly, with only here and there a lump or mound of bodies to break the surface.
But you can't break the machines," Ernest replied.
Is it not then highly irrational tobreak the machine-loom and go back to the clumsy and more costly hand-loom method of weaving?
To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
Thus they moan Their fears but speak them not; no sound is heard Giving their anguish utterance: as when In depth of winter all the fields are still, The birds are voiceless and no sound is heard To break the silence of the central sea.
And when Antonius saw a breeze arise Fresh from a cloudless heaven, to break the sea, He loosed his ships which, by the pilots' hands And by the wind in equal order held, Swept as a marching host across the main.
The cavalry first form across the stream ' To break the torrent's force; the rest with ease Beneath their shelter gain the further bank.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "break the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
