Breaking back to cover, the chase hot on his heels, he had run full tilt into a party of village youths from Glen Ellen and Caliente.
The last one had died from a wrenched back, and he was now breaking in a new one.
Nishikanta leaned cursing against the side of the cabin, the nails of both hands torn off at the quick by the breaking of his grip on the rail.
On the contrary, it was he who had attacked Kennan, hurling him down on the road and breaking his leg under his horse.
But can you imagine a rural council in England breakinginto this personal note?
The following poem of Rabindranath Tagore may aptly symbolise this breakingin of the West upon the East, though I do not know that that was the author's intention: "With days of hard travail I raised a temple.
Twisting his head around as he bobbed up and down on the rollers, our hero caught just a glimpse of some object that seemed stationary, with the waves breaking over it.
The Irishman who voted against the negro was breaking his chain with every blow of his pick.
Soft emerald shadows hung far down, breaking up into surface rifts of cool dimness as the waves swung over them.
On we go, breaking step to save the bridge, surprise and fluttering in our hearts.
Practically, lilies have such an uncomfortable way of breaking short off.
It was really a comparatively easy matter, had a proper grip been taken of the men, to have restrained the overstaying and breaking of leave that occurred up till New Year's Day.
The remainder of the group had simply to throw themselves to the deck, breaking their fall by clinging to the twisted stays as best they might.
He was considering the possibility of going down 40 feet, tunnelling right through the hill at German Officers' Trench, and in one great effort breaking through in the rear of the Turkish position.
The first step in the leisurely march of the divine deliverance is the provision for checking the Egyptian advance and securing the safe breaking up of the Israelitish camp.
We see the bustle of the morning's breaking up of the encampment of Israel.
Moses makes no attempt to argue with the people, but casts himself in entreaty before the door of the Tabernacle, as if crushed and helpless in face of this heart-breaking proof of the persistent obstinacy of the old faults.
They had done the very opposite, bybreaking down the distinction between sacred and common.
All sin is the breach of law which at the very moment of breaking is known to be imperative.
But there are other ways of breaking the commandment than setting up an image.
To Abraham doing what he was commanded, though his heart was breaking as he did it, the help was granted--as it always will be.
That was his last thought about his life, as it began to be seen in the breaking light of eternal day.
We find it put very clearly by the Convention Parliament of 1688, which accuses James II of having "endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people.
Still, she had done him an indirect favor in breakingup this love business.
Gradually they were breaking the organization, lopping off a branch here and there, but the peace of the future depended upon getting a grip on the spine of the cobra himself.
Jumped boldly through the window at the risk of breaking his neck.
Breaking the door down was utterly out of the question, since it was of solid oak and several inches thick.
But the Erskine party saw enough, nevertheless, to persuade them one and all that the Purple need only expect defeat, unless some way of breakingup the tackle-back play was speedily discovered.
I promised, fellows, and here I ambreaking that promise.
Near the east goal two lines of heaving, charging men were being coached by Mills in breaking through.
The Member resented this unparliamentary treatment by jumping up from his chair and giving the small aggressor a good shaking, at the same time seizing the implement which had caused his wrath and breaking it into splinters.
I was completely taken aback,--I had not thought of such a sudden breaking up of our little circle.
It is breaking down the Scriptures, which teaches the poor their duty to the rich, and gently admonishes the rich to look down upon and guide the poor.
Lahoma and Wilfred instantly dropped as if shot, at the same time breaking into unexpected laughter that caused Willock's beard to quiver sympathetically.
Ain't you always careful in making your steps as if scared of breaking something?
They's no breaking up and enriching land that ain't never bore nothing but buffalo-grass, without I have picks and spades and plows and harrers.
This effort to save the precious amounts of moisture stored in the Big Bend landscape requires constant vigilance and back-breaking effort.
Lechuguilla reproduces both by seeds and by rhizomes, and you sometimes find tiny new rosettes breaking ground on the runners of a mature plant.
Later on, more molten rock pushed up from below, bulging the surface rocks upward without breaking through.
Girls are incomparably wilder and more effervescent than boys, more untamable and regardless of rule and limit, with an ever-shifting variety, breakingcontinually into new modes of fun, yet with a harmonious propriety through all.
But if you ever reach the ground withoutbreaking your neck, I'll have a word with you, for my feelings are sorely stirred.
Well, then, 'tis myself will be breaking your head if you don't leave us inside to see them.
A few weeks ago we went sailing down the harbor, and saw the waves rolling on the beach at Nantasket and breaking on the rocks around the lighthouse.
Shut up in the town with nothing to do, the troops became lawless, breaking into houses and plundering the people.
The drumbeat, with the clanging bell, was breaking the stillness of the early morning.
He was not expecting to encounter a burglar, breaking and entering a shop, store, or residence.
They gained the highlands of Dorchester, from whence they could overlook the harbor and its islands, and see the lighthouse rising from its rocky foundation, with the white surf breaking around it.
The watchman, instead of waiting to catch the culprit in the act of breaking and entering, stepped softly forward.
He could say no more, but hid his face in his hands to hide the agony of a breaking heart.
For the shame of Aspromonte, And the stain of Mentana's sod, But forged the curse of kings that sprang From your breaking hearts to God!
Very well; you go and see him, and I'll help you out by breaking the news to the thirty-odd.
Gertrude was as undemonstrative as the daughter of Francis Vennor had a right to be, but his coldness went near to breaking down her fortitude.
The next man went through the same operation, and all the rest followed; a new laugh breaking forth as each customer handed over the razor to the next in turn.
Others, with a truer gospel-spirit, love, with hopeful countenance, to watch the breaking of the sunbeam in the darkened sky.
These last were "to drive two thousand wild bulls and cause them to run over the English camp, and thus, by breaking their files, put them into a total disorder and confusion.
The men were in such misery that the march back to the boats taxed their strength to the breaking point.
Dampier's party had marched in all 110 miles, over the most damnable and heart-breaking country which the mind of man can imagine.
One party of buccaneers crept round the fortifications to the town, where they attacked the monastery and the convent, breaking into both with little trouble, and capturing a number of monks and nuns.
The men were for breaking their ranks in order to plunder the pile; but Drake bade them stand to their arms.
Four Maroons went on ahead to mark a trail by breaking branches or flinging a bunch of leaves upon the ground.
Is sabbath-breaking a great sin in the sight of God?
A tremendous roar filled the air--a roar of grief and rage and terror--breaking forth into despair.
