Lieutenant Rochas was so moved by his words that hegave way to an ungovernable fit of anger, raising his sword and belaboring the men with the flat as if it had been a club.
On his return from his wearisome and fruitless expedition to the shed, Jean forgot his usual placidity and gave way to anger.
He gave way to a fit of rage, he, always so self-contained.
He said to me, 'I resist the temptation because I might be wanting in respect if I gave way to it.
I gave way, of course, and wrote down the address of the shop.
I ran into the house; I rushed upstairs into the room that is Eunice's and mine; I locked the door, and then I gave way to my rage, before it stifled me.
Wishing to escape all danger from this terrible weapon I made a desperate struggle, and the belt, which surrounded my waist and which had been hitched on a stone, gave way.
Taking example by the guide, I gave way to a kind of painful somnolency, during which I seemed both to hear and feel continued heavings and shudderings in the mountain.
While these reflections were passing through my mind, my uncle, the Professor, gave way to an access of feverish and poetical excitement.
Charles tried to evade the summons of the Commons, but the Lords having come on March 7 to the same conclusion as the other House, he gave way on the 8th and recalled his Declaration.
He tried hard to get over the difficulty by an evasive answer, but at last, on June 7, he gave way, and the Petition of Right became the law of the land.
Finally, however, he gave way, and peace was maintained.
But at length the man found the catch, it gave way, and the morsel of black fell and disclosed the pale, handsome face of an effeminate, fair-haired man of about thirty.
He hesitated, and partly in view of the Countess's attitude, partly of the fact that he had not precisely defined his next step if he got her mounted--he gave way.
Miss Haviland, in a tone of joyful surprise; which the next instant, however, gave way to one of embarrassment.
The doubts and fears of the more cautious and wavering gradually gave way; and it soon became evident that the measure had found too much favor with the council to be resisted.
He kept his word, and though Hester shivered at the idea, she saw her husband's great desire for the trip, gave way, and prevailed upon him to consent to take her.
This man was won over, and when the others were brought under the persuasive ways of the Cuban, the dread of punishment for desertion was mastered by another sovereign or two, and after his last words they gave way.
I gave way, thinking it prudent to do so, but resolved in my mind I would get Grant to see it in boats on his voyage from Karague.
He gave way at last,' says Bismarck, 'when I showed him that it could do no harm.
The flying jib having been carelessly secured, the gaskets, or small ropes which bound it to the jibboom, gave way.
I got up a considerable distance, and pressing against a board, it gave way, and a tremendous crash followed, as if a number of boxes filled with bottles had fallen to the ground.
I was exerting all my strength in another effort when it gave way, and down I fell with my head almost through the aperture I had made.
Strange as it may seem the thought amused me, and I gave way to an hysterical laugh.
Humphrey hesitated for a few moments, and then, feeling how true the man's words were, he gave way.
Humphrey obeyed, and placed his feet upon a projection; but it gave way, and a great stone forced from the wall by his weight fell down with a splash which roused the echoes once more.
I pushed a big stone against that corner and it gave way, and when I pushed the whole place opened, and down there's as good a hiding-place as a man need have.
He uttered a despairing shriek, for as he spoke a sharp tearing sound was heard; the cloth he clung to gave way, and before he could get a fresh hold he was hanging suspended by the half-torn-off garb.
Before the old man could reef his sail, it gave way, and fluttered out, like the wounded wing of a bird, bearing our boat with it.
The lassitude and nervous reluctance to give up her seclusion which had oppressed her of late, gave way, and with that dignity which is born of womanly self-command, she changed her toilet, and passed from the solitude of her sick room.
Is it strange that her nerves, so long excited and so delicate in themselves, gave way at last, prostrating her to the earth, strengthless as a child?
She drew near to the house, standing there in the darkness, and began to stagger, for now the unnatural strength which had nerved her, gave way.
For a time he lay reasoning vainly against this belief, but at last he gave way to it.
But the people, roused by the death of the ill-fated priest, rose against this third execution with a resolution before which the local government gave way.
But he was, of course, terribly enfeebled, and at the sight of his rescuers he gave way to hysterical weeping.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gave way" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
