When I saw him, he was sitting on the ground by his door, mending the broken bottom of a chair.
They live in the vilest tents, with the exception of two or three families, who have their abode in broken and filthy caravans.
He, however, displayed little or no energy, was gloomy and dissatisfied, and frequently said that his heart was brokensince he had left Yorkshire.
Whilst thus helpless, a nest of venomous bush-ants is broken over his racked and quivering body.
But his continued refusal would have broken up the ministry, and the breaking up of the ministry must now have been the signal for revolution.
In the next place, a certain literary tradition and usage has already been formed which cannot easily be broken down.
The Greek nation was broken up into small states, each busied with its own affairs and its own men.
The surrounding country he found broken and difficult, and his hardships were aggravated by the tropical heat and his ignorance of the continent.
Near its margin the surface of the inland ice is broken up by numerous large crevasses, formed by the outward motion of the glacier covering the underlying land.
He sat long before his prayers were heeded, but at last could hear the rain patter on the dry sides of the tepee and he knew that the Thunder Bird had broken through the air to let the rain fall.
The moon rose big and red over their backs, the wolves stopped howling and scurried to one side--the ceaseless thud of the falling hoofs continued monotonously, broken only by the crack of a lash across a horse's flank.
There was a moment's lull in the proceedings, broken only by a confused murmur of voices; then Acton jumped to his feet.
No one spoke, the silence only being broken by the sound of "Rats" blowing up another bag, which caused a fresh burst of laughter.
The stillness had been broken by a slight sound, as of something falling inside the attic, and this was followed a moment later by a shrill, unearthly scream.
I suppose so," returned the other, "especially if they find the chap who owns that knife with the broken blade.
About a quarter of an hour later the boys were busy with a Latin exercise, when silence was broken by a shuffle and an exclamation from the back desk.
Why, because old Fossberry's house has been broken into, and they think the thieves must have come through our garden; there were some footmarks in the shrubbery just on the other side of the wall.
The doors have a sort of iron ring for a handle, and through this we stuck a broken cricket-stump, and Mug and I held the two ends so that you couldn't possibly lift the latch on the inside.
They strolled off down the path, and soon reached a long stretch of brick wall, the top of which was thickly covered with fragments of broken bottles.
Magazines and papers fell from the hands which held them, and the usual quiet of the room was broken by a buzz of astonishment.
The only trace of the thieves that the police have been able to discover is the broken blade of a clasp-knife, which was on a flower-bed near the window.
Like Voltaire, Rousseau had the excuse of a corrupt ecclesiasticism to be broken into; but the Church and Christianity are two different things.
The question, then, is this: Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England?
At this period the poet resided in London or its neighborhood, his family home in Lincolnshire having been broken up in 1837, six years after the death of his father.
We charge him with having brokenhis coronation oath; and we are told that he kept his marriage vow!
Barbiche suddenly buried his face in his hands, and exclaimed in a broken voice, "Oh, my mother!
I attempted to remonstrate, but I and the proprietor of the broken bench were both suddenly propelled by the Jack in-office into a bye street, and I discovered, to my horror, that I had lost Anastatia.
A French officer was returning from a peaceful mission into Portugal, unconscious of the fact that hostilities hadbroken out.
One afternoon, near the frontier, I passed a motor which had broken down, and to which a pair of oxen had been yoked, to draw the crippled vehicle away.
The shackle connecting this with the next one had given way, and the broken car had darted off the bank, carrying the rear one with it, while the rest of the train dashed on to its destination.
She was pale, and appeared to be suffering from the pain of her broken arm; but she bestowed a sweet smile upon him as he took the proffered seat.
One of the prongs of the fork was broken off between two bricks in the fire-place, and the other bent; so that the instrument formed a very good pick-lock.
It involved the liability to a broken neck or a broken limb; but he determined to watch for an opportunity to execute this reckless purpose.
I couldn't have gone back to Harrison's Landing without you; it would have broken my heart.
He was not deeply skilled in surgery; but he knew enough of the mysteries of anatomy to discover that the arm was brokenbetween the elbow and the shoulder.
He hadbroken his bargain with the fugitive; and, in attempting to surrender him to his implacable enemies, he had deprived his heir of liberty, if not of life.
The peace of 1815 lasted only fifteen years, and it was first broken by the French themselves.
It suffered greatly, like so many other sacred buildings, at the time of the Revolution, when the tombs of the Merovingian kings were broken into and their contents dispersed.
The peace of 1814, however, was broken by Napoleon's return from Elba, and the members of the commission were called away to active duty.
Let the old system be broken up, in which innocence has perished, in which egotism has prospered, in which man has been trafficked in by man.
The frame of mind in which to enjoy beautiful music should not, indeed, be broken in upon by disturbances from the outside.
It is better for him to have broken altogether with the unrecognised claimants and dispossessed occupiers of foreign thrones than to remain their ally at the cost of such sacrifices as were demanded from him.
Guimard, Madeleine, mass at Notre-Dame for her broken arm, I.
Germany is ours, and that is why I felt suddenly broken down and ill at the sight of those emigrants, of those great rivers of blood which flow from the wounds of our country and lose themselves in the deserts of Africa.
She reached out her hand; it was trembling visibly and her face expressed a deep distress, but she took the piece of broken bottle and looked at it before passing it back.
That broken bottle-- or rather, that piece ofbroken bottle!
Miss Cumberland, did you ever see that bit of brokenglass before?
Her fingers opened; the glass fell from her hand, and lay in broken fragments beside her plate.
Sweetwater had crossed to the cupboard and taken down the lower half of the broken bottle which had attracted his notice on his first entrance, and was now holding it out, with a quizzical look at the departing coachman.
Next this, thebroken pieces of a china bowl and what looked like the torn remnants of some very fine lace.
Had you carried that other bottle off, and had it been broken as this has been broken would it not have presented an exactly similar appearance to this?
Three brokenwineglasses lay on the tablecloth when I went in to clear away.
A constant sense of discontent, broken by brief periods of satisfaction on doing some specially good piece of work.
A collection of commandments formulated by a person who has broken them all.
The difference between a house and a home is this: A house may fall down, but a home is broken up.
I thought it would be well worth while to have my leg brokenif you would look at me in the same way.
During the remainder of the day he was unable to see her alone for a moment, or to obtain any further reason to believe that the ice was in reality broken between them.
One day in July, when the war was well over and the field hospitals long since broken up, he wrote from Washington, where he was still pursuing his labors: "My work is drawing to a close.
As George saw Elsie's face while she watched Stanhope gather the coveted trifle, he chuckled to himself-- "The ice is broken between them now.
On the further slope were the same sad evidences of poor mortality, graves here and there and often all too shallow, broken muskets, bullet perforated canteens and torn knapsacks--the debris of a pitched battle.
The ice is broken between us now," he thought, as he broke through the group gathering at the open door.
I do believe you are sincere; and if the dreadful thing which has broken me down with sorrow had not happened, all might have been as you wish.
It's broken already," began Mrs. Banning, putting her handkerchief to her eyes.
Such tidings as yours should be broken to her in that refuge only.
I love you all the more because you are heart-broken and pale with grief.
The salt lakes were first dyed a deep crimson by the setting sun, and as we returned they seemed a faint violet by the twilight, just broken by a thousand stars; while before us was the red beacon-light.
It is, he says, a peculiarity of his imagination that it is easily broken in upon and diverted by striking external objects.
In this situation he was accused by Mr. Fox, under the broad appellation of the Morning Post, but with allusion to his articles, of having broken up the peace of Amiens, and renewing the war.
There was a new road made all down this side of the mountain; very fair to look at in the distance, but infamous for foot travelers, being all loose, sharp cubes of new broken whinstone.
After that, his name vanished from the magazine, and was no more seen there, and the new staff on which he leaned proved a broken reed.
Emblems of past loves and future hopes, severed names which the holiest rites united, broken letters of brief happiness, bestrew the road, and speak to the passers by in vain.
By the act of quitting Blackwood, all the old associations of his life, its happiest and most glorious, seemed broken up.
We might have collected the broken fragments of the glass; but the brandy, that was gone!
Methought that still with trump and clang The gateway's broken arches rang; Methought grim features, seamed with scars, Glanced through the window's rusty bars.
Then once more there was a moment of intense silence in that spot whose quiet had been broken by such a din.
He too was weary and heart-broken by a hard life and many beatings.
III Small ruinedbroken strays of light, Pearl after pearl she shreds them through Her long sweet sleepy fingers, white As any pearl's heart veined with blue, And soft as dew on a soft night.
Our strength is all a broken crutch, Our eyes are dim with mists, Our hearts are prisoners as we touch Two flower-soft fists.
More people, perhaps, die ofbroken hearts than we are aware of.
They have evidently broken their treaty with France, and yet are afraid to assist in finishing the vast armament of the French.
But such is the descent of the Devil at this day upon our selves, that I may truly tell you, The Walls of the whole World arebroken down!
It is because we have broken the hedge of Gods Precepts, that the hedge of Gods Providence is not so entire as it uses to be about us; but Serpents are biting of us.
About this time, there was a Rumour about the Town, that Martin had a Broken Head; but the Deponent could say nothing to that.
Tis that we may be punished with such Falls, as may make us cry out with David, O my Bones are broken with my Falls!
In the end, after a life full of near defeats, strife, yearning and anxiety, we behold the great man emerge triumphantly from his broken fetters and take his place beside the masters of the past.
It is broken up into planes and organised as to each contour in exactly the same manner as is his work in oils.
Early in 1912 he came forward with a very large canvas entitled Ville de Paris, whose surface was broken up into many angular planes after the Cubist fashion.
Sybil Jones says of the visit: "All crushed and brokenunder the heavy stroke, I spoke to her of the heavenly Chastener's love and care, and said that He could bind up the broken heart and give peace.
The weather has this month been very fine, though broken now and then by one of the fierce, sudden winter storms with their rushing rain and violent thunder and lightning.
It was the part of wisdom to gain his hearers, for their souls could not be reached until the barrier of their prejudice was broken down.
The ruin of the ancient city of Dan is very complete; a few broken walls, fallen stones, and pieces of pottery are all that are left to tell of a people long since passed away.
The afflicted men were all broken down with suffering and were ready for the consolation of the gospel.
No one who sat under that silence doubted that the Lord was speaking to "the spirit's finer ear;" and when the seal was broken and the moved lips opened in vocal thanksgiving many hearts rose in harmony.
The silence was at length broken by dear Eli in a feeling testimony to the universality of divine grace.
Since our arrival here, on Sixth day, the weather has been so broken and stormy that we do indeed feel that there is great cause for thankfulness to Him who holds the winds and waters under His control.
The proprietor, a Greek, speaks broken English and strives to make the stay of his guests as agreeable as circumstances will admit.
He found that the walls of the old fort were broken down, and that the small garrison were careless of all discipline.
The windows were broken in, the doors torn off their hinges, and the furniture broken and thrown about in heaps.
This river seemed to have a smooth current, brokenby two or three little falls, and we thought we could have quite an easy progress.
Not one among the red-coats dared to follow, and ten chances to one if they had attempted it, they would have broken their necks; for the precipice was so high and steep as to have one hundred steps cut in it.
Twice would the big fellow have broken away and again spurred for home, but the little game cock held him savagely to his work and so, together, at last they neared the curtaining ridge.
A moment more had been devoted to recalling some of his eager men who, from the extreme right of the swinging skirmish line, had broken away in pursuit of certain intentional laggards.
He then lays his cheek caressingly on the instrument, which gradually awakes, and wails, and moans, like an infant broken of its slumber.
Again, an advance was made in the form of the wood fibre used, the fibre being broken down by the action of chemicals under high temperature, and so producing an extremely pure form of woody fibre.
The composition in the dish is broken down quite fine with a flat-headed glass rod, and the alcohol evaporated on the water bath till the residue is moist, but not quite dry, 25 c.
It is generally boiled for eight hours to open up the fibre and remove alkali, then broken up by hand with wooden mallets, pulped, and then used with fresh gun-cotton in the proportion of 1 to 5 parts.
The three wounded men lay stretched out on this floor, among brickbats and broken panes and slabs of dropped plaster.
They found the men in the last house but one, the house with the broken shutter.
A blunderbuss and two swords hung above the chimney-piece, for the terror of evil-doers, but the blunderbuss was rusty and shattered, and the swords werebroken and edgeless.
Flowers, plants, birds, the harp, the old piano whose notes had sounded so much sweeter in bygone times; how many struggles had it cost her to keep these two last links of that broken chain which bound her yet to home!
To all appearance, it had very recently become known to the young gentlemen; for the rebellion had just broken out.
This,' he said, 'from its wildness, should be another of those dreams that have so broken my rest of late.
Even when he was satisfied that he could not be there, he sat patiently on a broken stair and waited; arguing, that he had gone out upon some slight errand, and must soon return.
I have broken hearts before now, and I'm very sorry for it: for it's a terrible thing to reflect upon.
Mr Squeers continued to look disconsolately about him, and to listen to these noises in profound silence, broken only by the rustling of his large coat, as he now and then moved his arm to raise his glass to his lips.
