I looked at him out of the corner of one eye, and he broke down, and asked my pardon like a man.
I ate almost choked me; every time I attempted to be jocose, I broke down, with a lamentable failure.
He broke down in the middle, taking stage fright or pulpit fright or some such devilry, though there was nothing to be afraid of except a bandboxful of chattering girls who didn't listen, and a few old fogies with ear-trumpets.
Finally she began My Mammie, but floundered, broke down, and cried.
The last witness was Brother Andrew, and he broke down utterly.
I told you how he broke down before; but on Sunday morning, in spite of mine own amended Litany, I had just as much hope of the breakdown of the Falls of Niagara, or a nineteen-feet spring tide.
I admit that I broke down completely, and cried myself to sleep.
If Mr. Kittredge says I have made him any promises, he is unworthy of the great respect I have always had for him;' and with that last word she broke down, and sobbed as if her heart would break.
That broke down my powers of resistance in some directions, I had so much to resist in others.
When he became convinced of this, he broke down utterly, and wept like a child, declaring that now he knew my pluck, and I had been the first man ever to get the best of him, he loved me like a brother!
Suddenly he felt utterly wretched about himself, and he broke down helplessly.
But then it broke down, and the sound of weeping began to ooze out over the farm, quiet and regular like flowing heart's blood.
Pelle gazed at him in astonishment, and for a moment it looked as if he were going to strike the old man; then the hammer dropped from his hand and he broke down.
So he continued a while, increasing in bitterness, until he broke down like a little child.
It broke down, as it always will break down in practice, whenever the difference of belief is so strongly felt as to seek earnestly to embody itself in diversity of outward practice.
Mrs Jo broke down there; it seemed so cruel to destroy the faint hope Dan's eyes betrayed, that she could not moralize when she thought of his hard life and lonely future.
Mother Bhaer'--he broke down; and laying his head on his arms, blistered the paper with a rain of tears that eased his heart and washed away the boyish sins that now lay so heavy on his conscience.
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