The laces were broken at the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a bow knot at the top.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.

He ran for the sick room, found his pistol was broken, and threw it away.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

This colt arrived at the Raceway early last November, and immediately was put into harness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to cart and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

It would be fine publicity for the man who was willing to walk to the mayor's throne over the broken reputation of a helpless girl!!

and a store was broken into and robbed.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

It had been shut again, but the lock was broken ; ;

Just how many sub secrets were being handed over when the ring, watched for six months, was broken remained untold.

But Palmer knew, as did everybody else at Augusta, that his streak was about to be broken.

But she was learning that so long as she was in this country, and wore civilian dress in the Club, there would always be transient young men who would approach her with broken English.

This was one time I'd have gladly broken my own rule, but habit was too strong.

The bulb was broken when it was delivered, perhaps during transportation.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.

It was you that tracked it down anyway, Stevens '', he pursued strictly.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

She was watching a tree ride wildly down that roiling current.

He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

`` I was down to 275.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.