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Show BR BiRA To BREAK. @. 7 1. "To part in two Give forrow words;. the grief that does not fpea ‘Whifpers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it 4reak Shakefpeare 2. To burft The clouds are fill above; and, while I fpeak A fecond deluge o'er our heads may break. Dryd The Roman cam Hangs o'er us black and threat'ning, like a ffor 3 Jult breaking on our heads T fprea rock by dafhing Dryden as waves on At laft a falling billow ftops his breath Breaks o'cr his head, and whelms him underneath Dryden He could compare the confufion of a multitud to that tumult in the Icarian fea, dafhing an $reaking among its crowd of iflands ~Pope 4. To break as a fivelling; to open, an difcharge matter Some hidden abfcefs in the mefentery, breakin fome few days after, was difcovered to be a apofteme Af Harvey one, wh hat fubdue hi natura rage how he likes the change; and undoubtedly he wil ‘tell you, that it is no lefs happy than the eafe o a broken impofthume, as the painful gathering an filling of it Decay of Piety 5. 'T'o open as the morning The day breaks not, it is my heart Becaufe thatI and you muft part Stay, or elfe my joys will die And perifh in their infancy Donne When a man thinks of any thing in the darknefs of the night, whatever deep impreflions i may make in his mind, they are apt to vanifh a the day breaks about him 6 To burit forth Addifon to exclaim Every man After the hideous ftorm that follow'd wa A thing infpir'd; and, not confulting, brok Into a general prophecy Shake[peare 7- "To become bankrupt 1 did mean, indeed, to pay you with this which if, like an ill venture, it come unluckil home, 1 break, and you, my gentle creditors, lofe He that puts all upon adventures times break, and come to poverty Shakefpeare doth oftenBacon Cutler faw tenants break; and houfes fall Pope 8., To decline in health and ftrength Yet thus, methinks, I hear them fpeak See how the dean begins to break Poor gentleman ! he droops apace Savift 9. To iflue out with vehemence Whofe wounds, yet frefh, with bloody hands h ftrook "While from his breaft the dreadful accents broke Pope T'o make way with fome kind of fud dennefs impetuofity or violence Calamities may be neareft at hand, and readief to break in fuddenly upon us, which we in regar of times or circumftances, may imagine to be fartheft off Hooker The three mighty men 4roke through the hof of the Philiftines 2 Samuel They came unto Judah, and brake into it 2 Cbhronicles doors, when i Or who fhut up the fea withi brake forth, as if it had ifiued out of the womb Fob This, this is he; foftly awhile Let us not break in upon him Milton He refolved that Balfouy fhould ufe his utmof endeavour to break through with his whole body o horfe Clarendon When the channel of ariver is overcharged wit saater mor /than it ca And Europe from her lethargy did wake. 1Dmlmm O! couldft thou break through fate's fever decree A new Marcellus fhould arife in thee. ~ Dryder At length I 've ated my fevereft part I feel the woman breaking in upon mt:z1 flow And meltelt ¢about my heart art, mymy tears will deliver, it neceffaril breaks over the banks, to make itfelf room. - Hale Sometimes his anger breaks through all difguifes Aind fpares not Gods nor meit Denbam h to break offext 18. 70 break off from violence Sha eay itfe}f in?f"é difc ve T out 19. To brea den effedts Break outy that may her facred peace m They fmother and keep dovfn the fl:x:f:. 5{ i' mifchief, fo as it may not break out in fheirt of government; what comes afterwards, they car Addifon On my departing foul There are fome who, ftruck with the ufefulnef of thefe charitics, break through all the difficultie and obftructions that now lie in the way toward Aiterbury advancing them Almighty Pow'r, by whofe moft wife comman forlorn Let not one fpark of filthy lugful fir i yet, methinks, a beam of light érzak Helplefs yedg To part fi‘om,wfg; I muft from this enchanting queen bregp How does the lufire of our father's a&ions Through the dark cloud of ills that ct})lvcr l}l;lm, blaze. Brea burn'n w with more triumpha p " ‘eak out, an An you begin to confider, whet fafely take one draught more, let th 8 Youma be acm,z ed a fign late'enou bl‘akt‘ Such a deal of wonder has broken oys wi&fifi y. lg ;! ‘f t l a b o n c t k m a l hour, that b not it Sha As fire breaks out of flint byperr.um ;:: i'j?:;‘l-: dom and truth iffueth out by the agitation of 4 uncertain here I {tand gument Take this faint glimmering of thyfelf away Or break into my foul with perfeé day | Arbuthunot See heav'n its fparkling portals wide difplay And break upon thee in a flood of day Pope I muft pay her the laft duty of friendfhip whereever the is, though I break through the whole pla of life which I have formed in my mind. Swift Fully ripe, his fwelling fate breaks out And hurries him to mighty mifchiefs op, p, den All turn'd their fides, and to each othe figo I faw their words break out in five and f okpe?ke Dryden, Like a ball of fire, the further thrown Still with a greater blaze the fhone 11. To come to an explanation And her bright foul broke out on ev'vy fide, My But perceiving this great alteration in his friend he thought fit to break with him thereof. Sidney Stay with me awhile I am to break with thee of fome affair out Break with them, gentle love About the drawing as many of their hufband There are men of concealed fire, that doth ng break out in the ordinary circumftances of ife Addifon That touch me near There can be no greater labour, than to be always diffembling; there being fo many ways by which a fmothered truth is apt to blaze, and brea Shakefpeare Into the plot as can 12. To fall out ; to be friends no longer Be not afraid to brea With murd'rers and traitors, for the favin A life fo near and neceflary to you As is your country's Ben Fonfon "T'o break upon the fcore of danger or expence, i to be mean and narrow-fpirited Collier Sighing, he fays, we muft certainly breat And my cruel unkindnefs compels him to{peak {wept away great multitudes How didft thou fcorn life's meaner charms Thus radian And thus wit This cafto thofe that brea Rofe fiom the circling crowd he broke manly modefty he fpoke. Dryden makes bigots and fcepticks; an from it, are in danger of herefy Locke 14. Zo break in 'To enter unexpeedly without proper preparation The doctor is a pedant, that, with a deep voice and a magifterial air an drives dow He broke not out into his great excefles, whil he was reftrained by the councils and authority o Seneca 15. Zo break loofe tivity ‘Who would not hell Addifon To efcape from cap finding way, dreak Zsofe fro And boldly venture to whatever plac Fartheft from pzin 16. 70 break loofe 'To fhake off reftraint If we deal faliely in covenant with God, an break loofe from all our engagements to him, w releafe God from all the promifes he has made t us Tillotfon 17. To break off 'To defift fuddenly Do not peremptorily break off, in any bufinefs in a fit of anger ; but, howfoever you fhew bitter nefs, do nota¢t any thing that is not revocable Bacon Pius Quintus, at the very time when that memorable vi¢tory was won by the Chriftians at Lepanto, being then hearing of caufes in confiftory broke off fuddenly, and faid to thofe about him, I is now more time we fhould give thanks to God Bacon 'To ceafe; to intermit It is credibly affirmed, that, upon that very da when the river firft rifeth, great plagues in Cair ufe fuddenly to break up. Bacon's Natural Hiflorg 23. Z0 break up Thefe 'To diffolve itfelf and the like conceits, when men hav cleared their underftanding by the light of expe rience, will fcatter and break up like mift. Bacon The fpeedy depredation of air upon watery moifture, and verfion of the fame into air, appearet in nothing more vifible than the fudden difcharg or vanithing of a little cloud of breath, or va- .pour fro glafs miftinefs fcattereth or any polithed body; for the and éreaketh up fuddenly Bacon But, ere he cam near it, the pillar and crof of light brakeup, and caft itfelf abroad, as it were into a firmament of many ftars B‘_lf"" What we obtain by converfation, is oftentime loft again, as foon as the company breaks upy 0f at leaft, when the day vanifhes Watts 24 Milton Dryde 22. o break up breaks in upon converfation all before him Addifon 20. 70 break out. To have eruptions fro the body, as puftules or fores 21. To break out T'o become diflolute Prior 13. To break from. To go away with fom vehemence Saath A violent fever broke out in the place, which Ben Fonfon Thou who could#t break from Laura's arms For very want he could not build a wall 10 Whé Till through thofe clouds the fun of knpwledg To begin holidays; 1 be difmifled from bufinefs To break up Our army is difpers'd already. Like youthful fteers unyok'd, they took theircourf Eaft, weft, north, fouth: or, likea {chool broke #f Each hurries tow'rds his home and fporting-place Shakepearc 25. To break «with with any 'To part friendflli There is a flave, whom we have put in prifo Reports, the Volfcians, with two feveral powers Are enter'd in the Roman territoriess -Go fee this rumourer whipt It cannot be The Volfcians dare break aoith us Shake[peart Can there be any thing of friendfhip in anarES hooks, and trapans? Whofoever breaks aith }.u friend upon fuch terms, has enough to warrant hi in fo doing, both before God and man fi‘:g' |