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Example sentences for "rupture"

Lexicographically close words:
rupee; rupees; rupes; rupiah; rupibus; ruptured; ruptures; rupturing; rura; rural
  1. And Tresler was quick to understand that this was simply to get him out of the way until such time as Jake's temper had cooled and the danger of a further rupture was averted.

  2. And it was Jake's purpose, trading on his ignorance of such matters, to fool him into using a saddle that would probably rupture him.

  3. The news of this sudden rupture made the English console fall four per cent.

  4. The preliminaries first agreed to at the Hague were too favourable to France; when Louis rejected them, the rupture of the negotiations rested with Marlborough.

  5. I say that his attachment was of brief duration, because the rupture was understood to have come from him.

  6. Do you remember how, a dozen years ago, a number of our friends were startled by the report of the rupture of young Locksley's engagement with Miss Leary?

  7. The rupture must be reduced (see Rupture) and sustained by a proper truss, for which the patient should apply to a responsible surgical instrument maker.

  8. Even if the swelling is caused by rupture this treatment is the best.

  9. During his absence relations between India and Tibet had improved, and the rupture of friendly relations in 1904 had been the outcome of misunderstanding, which had arisen under the Dalai Lama’s administration.

  10. Thus he hoped a rupture might be avoided, and things brought back to a satisfactory conclusion.

  11. I don't gather that there has ever been a rupture between them.

  12. Unless, indeed, a dexterous special clause in it gave his rupture with Marianne the validity of a divorce.

  13. For the first time since the rupture he felt undisguisedly angry with his wife.

  14. Illustration: Vorticella microstoma, the encysted animal protruding through a supposed rupture of the tunic.

  15. On one or two former occasions I had been unfortunate enough to give my captives a squeeze too much, with the usual result of a rupture of their integuments and an escape of globules and fluids from the regions within.

  16. After degerming, the maize is unhusked, wetted, submitted to a temperature sufficient to rupture the starch cells, dried, and finally rolled out in a flaky condition.

  17. The attempt to avert the repetition of such expenditure by the assertion of a right to tax the colonies through the British parliament led to the one great rupture which has marked the history of the empire.

  18. Father d'Aigrigny, much paler and more agitated than Gabriel, strove to excuse and explain his anxiety by attributing it to the sorrow he experienced at the rupture of his dear son with the Order.

  19. Not only do we consent to it--but now that I have penetrated the true motives of your rupture with us, it is my duty to release you from your vow.

  20. Your rupture with us would then have two motives.

  21. A dreadful rupture ensued, and the young wife perished.

  22. Afterwards, her adventure, the dangers which she had run, and her rupture with the poet, were all recounted by M.

  23. Constitution and the Government under which he lives--and would doubtless never consent to a rupture of the Union under any circumstances.

  24. Mr. Benjamin, I learn, feels very confident that a rupture between the United States and Great Britain is inevitable.

  25. There is a whisper that something like a rupture has occurred between the President and Gen.

  26. They deem the rupture of the States a fait accompli, but reck not of the horrors of war.

  27. This interference will produce a rupture between Capt.

  28. It was the beginning of companionship of a sort for me, and if we did not ever become very close friends, at all events our intimacy endured without rupture for many years.

  29. I do not think I could ever explain this to any one else; since I suppose that in the monetary sense the rupture of my plans left me the better off.

  30. By the action of Mexico there was, therefore, a complete rupture between the two countries.

  31. Their state of feeling seemed to Butler "a perfect tempest of passion," and Ellis believed that the Cabinet of Mexico discussed seriously the question of an open rupture with the United States.

  32. But as Herrera had now refused to receive Slidell and a peaceful settlement had become extremely improbable, this was obviously a wise and proper injunction, and by no means implied that a rupture had been desired.

  33. She supposed the rupture with Hubert might have been inevitable; but she was very sorry for it, thinking that Vera might have grown up to him, and regretting the losing him as a brother.

  34. Paula tried to take her sister's advice, and would have adhered to it, but that Vera would talk and try to make her declare the rupture to have been justified; and this produced an amount of wrangling which did good to no one.

  35. The rupture of the concordat at once terminates the obligations which resulted from it on both sides; but it does not break off all relation between the church and the state, since the two societies continue to coexist on the same territory.

  36. It must be observed that the denunciation of a concordat by a nation does not necessarily entail the separation of the church and the state in that country or the rupture of diplomatic relations with Rome.

  37. The rupture between Jacob Ogden and Miss Anison had an immediate effect upon the fortunes of a young friend of ours, who has for a long time been very much in the background.

  38. In the second place, a Committee of Public Safety named by the Commune, but soon coming to a violent rupture with it because it wanted to direct dictatorially.

  39. The dispute went on all the same, and waxed so violent that rumours of a rupture between the Council and the Central Committee spread amongst the legions.

  40. Steel being more than ten times as heavy as ash--but a transverse rupture stress seven times as high.

  41. It is less than half the weight of bamboo, but has a transverse rupture of only 7,900 lb.

  42. As to the maximum number of permissible turns, rubber has rupture stress of 330 lb.

  43. Steel then is nine times as heavy as bamboo--and has a transverse rupture stress 4.

  44. To get over those few months without an open and violent rupture should have been the first object of the French government.

  45. During the last forty-eight hours, great exertions had been made in various quarters to avert a complete rupture between the Houses.

  46. An address founded on these resolutions was voted; many thought that a violent rupture was inevitable.

  47. Thus the rupture was widened into schism, and persecution inflamed the zeal and kindled the energies of that new order of men of whom Elijah is the well-known type.

  48. He foresaw the inevitable rupture that would cut him off forever from friends and kinsmen, from the opportunities of wealth and honorable position, and deliver him over to privation and poverty.

  49. They accepted, indeed, her bribes, but prudently declined to carry out their part of the agreement, well knowing that she dare not venture to criminate herself by an open rupture with them.


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