So to the Lawes at large I write my name, And he that breakes them in the least degree, Stands in attainder of eternall shame.
You nickname vertue: vice you should haue spoke: For vertues office neuer breakes men troth.
The silent houres steale on, And flakie darkenessebreakes within the East.
But comming backe when she is wed, Who breakes the Cake aboue her head.
Now wantonly he spoiles, and eates us not, But breakesoff friends, and lets us peecemeale rot.
But, too vnruly Deere, he breakes the pale, And feedes from home; poore I am but his stale Luci.
I would not take this from report, It is, and my heart breakes at it Lear.
Brother Iohn Bates, is not that the Morning whichbreakes yonder?
I sir, the Serieant of the Band: he that brings any man to answer it that breakes his Band: one that thinkes a man alwaies going to bed, and saies, God giue you good rest Ant.
And as the Sunne breakes through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
The Noble Duke hath sworne his comming is But for his owne; and for the right of that, Wee all haue strongly sworne to giue him ayd, And let him neu'r see Ioy, that breakes that Oath York.
The Lethargie must haue his quyet course: If not, he foames at mouth: and by and by Breakes out to sauage madnesse.
Tut, this was nothing but an argument, That he that breakes a sticke of Glosters groue, Shall loose his head for his presumption.
But while I thinke to sing those of my bloud, And my Castara's; Loves unruly flood Breakes in, and beares away what ever stands, Built by my busie fancy on the sands.
These gentle perfumes usher in the day Which from the night of his discolour'd clay Breakes on the sudden: for a Soule so bright Of force must to her earth contribute light.
But the Watch breakes up: every one to his quarter, away!
And, Pembrook, now bethink How great a tyde of miseries breakes in.
Here she strikes hir pitcher against hir sisters, andbreakes them both and goes hir way.
The mayor presently[940] breakes open the love-letter, and reades it.
Sir Christopher was so noble, seeing they would not adventure so much money, he breakes the modell of the engine all to pieces before their faces.
It is of a bright colour with a very little tincture of yellow; transparent; and runnes in stirias, like nitre; it is extraordinary hard till it is broken, and then it breakes into very minute pieces.
Whether it breakes away by eructation and downwards ?
He that to nought aspires, doth nothing neede; Who breakesno law is subject to no King.
What new flame breakes out of the firmament That turnes up counsels never knowne before?
Getting command of a small ship that traded between Schiedam, in Holland, and Lisbon, Breakes for some time sailed between these ports.
Soon after this Breakes decided to retire from piracy, and returned to Amsterdam to claim Mrs. Snyde.
Breakes preferred the Acapulco to his own ship, so he fitted her up and sailed in her to the Mediterranean.
This tragedy so preyed upon the mind of Captain Breakes that he turned "melancholy mad" and drowned himself in one of the many dykes with which that city abounds.
Gifted with unlimited boldness, Breakes called in at Gibraltar and requested the Governor to grant him a British privateer's commission, which the Governor did "for a consideration.
He shews more true fortitude, that prayes quarter of the least Truth, at a miles distance, than hee that breakes through and hewes downe the most Theban Phalanx that ever field bore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
