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  • If there was not, he sat at the hearth carving small pieces of wood: a bull, a bird, a whale breaching the waves.†   (source)
  • "If these walls could be breached, don't you think a cow would have done it?"†   (source)
  • Ship appears to have sunk very quickly, which would indicate a major hull breach.†   (source)
  • If that floor panel is ever broken, the faceless messenger had told her, it means the upper echelon has been breached.†   (source)
  • Then she spotted a few rays from the setting sun breaching the billows, and she oriented herself.†   (source)
  • Had his breach of the International Statute of Secrecy been severe enough to land him in a cell in Azkaban?†   (source)
  • The weddings I went to usually had to separate the bride's and groom's families for fear of someone breaching the terms of their parole.†   (source)
  • "But there didn't have to be any production at all, no breach, no reconciliation, no drama.†   (source)
  • She can hear a scuffle and then the shot comes like a breach of crimson light: the eruption of Krakatoa.†   (source)
  • We have a breach.†   (source)
  • She knew about the breaching of the Maginot Line, the bombing of Rotterdam, the surrender of the Dutch army, and some of the girls had been talking the night before about the imminent collapse of Belgium.†   (source)
  • Every day brought defections and security breaches.†   (source)
  • Naturally, they didn't send us to Mars until they'd confirmed that all the supplies had made it to the surface and their containers weren't breached.†   (source)
  • This act of copulation, fertilization perhaps, which should have been no more to me than a bee is to a flower, had become for me indecorous, an embarrassing breach of propriety, which it hadn't been before.†   (source)
  • Perhaps for those very reasons, in those early months, being with him, falling in love with him, doing precisely what had been expected of her for her entire life, had felt forbidden, wildly transgressive, a breach of her own instinctive will.†   (source)
  • Breach man's mind.†   (source)
  • Breach of Privacy Despite her fears, Deborah didn't die on her thirtieth birthday.†   (source)
  • The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy.†   (source)
  • Through a sudden breach in the clouds he saw a sliver of clear sky brightly crowded with stars.†   (source)
  • He slowed his digging rate, poking the soft clay gently until his fingers breached the tunnel wall.†   (source)
  • She was also breached and the amount of amniotic fluid—liquid that nourishes and protects the developing infant—was low.†   (source)
  • The medical ward where he had awakened, beds, fugue tanks, intensive care apparatus… most of it expelled through the breaches in the spinmod's hull.†   (source)
  • He had a breach of promise with a hairdresser, a widow, who came to Ann Arbor from St. Louis, Mich.†   (source)
  • Or it may represent a breach of the truth (in a more traditional philosophical tradition) or a confrontation with terrors she has denied and can only exorcise by facing them.†   (source)
  • She gave herself that much time, though her mother's words, equating lunch with a monumental breach of duty, rattled in her mind.†   (source)
  • The slightest breach in decorum would find the perpetrator kicked off on the side of the road, no matter where we were.†   (source)
  • And more red lights come up on the windshield: the perimeter security of the Deliverator's vehicle has been breached.†   (source)
  • Yet there were a few outstanding incidents I fondly remember in relationship to my brother, incidents which despite their displays of closeness failed to breach the distance which would later lie between us.†   (source)
  • Carter, the defenses were too easily breached.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, she thought, there was a chink in that armor; somewhere, if she could find the right words, it could be breached.†   (source)
  • As he had feared, a significant lump had already formed, emerging like a humpbacked whale breaching the wild waves of his thinning hair.†   (source)
  • No window that could be breached.†   (source)
  • The ultimate white-knight fantasy: He steals the abused princess from her squalid circumstances and places her under his gilded protection in a castle that no one can breach but him.†   (source)
  • He continued to eat in silence, and his bad humor was evident in the manner in which he breached the rules of etiquette that sustained the legendary reputation of the riverboat captains.†   (source)
  • "There's been a breach."†   (source)
  • An Atreides daughter could've been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the breach.†   (source)
  • Okay, this had never been spelt out exactly, but it was definitely, as I say, an understanding, and until the afternoon of the Daniel Deronda business, neither of us had come anywhere near breaching it.†   (source)
  • A tractor at last breached a hole in the seawall, and a few men began to go through.†   (source)
  • Disguised as women, their mission is to breach the giants' stronghold and recapture Thor's hammer.†   (source)
  • "Once more into the breach?" said Dan, trying to make a joke.†   (source)
  • Unruffled by Herbert Jemson's breach of allegiance, because he had not heard it, Mr. Stone rose and walked to the pulpit with Bible in hand.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry, Martin, but it would be a breach of that contract if I told you anything without Henrik's permission."†   (source)
  • They have to do with bad manners, or worse, breaches of faith and loyalty.†   (source)
  • She'd always sensed he put on a facade of sorts, one she'd never been able to breach.†   (source)
  • That scared me more than the idea that he'd breached normal communication methods and could, at will, speak to me without ever opening his mouth.†   (source)
  • Even driving here from court, she had been aware of the fragility of the roads beneath her wheels, of the divider of sky that could so easily be breached.†   (source)
  • In a curiously rambling farewell address, he accused cabinet members of a breach of trust, of ignoring him and of playing into the hands of the African National Congress.†   (source)
  • There was no breach of faith.†   (source)
  • "Dad is suing them for breach of contract," she said.†   (source)
  • The drums beat in a frenetic tattoo, and I don't have to understand their strange language to know that it's a breach alarm.†   (source)
  • She wondered if she had sustained a breach in her right main glove.†   (source)
  • There was no other coach in the wings to take over her position if she simply decided not to show up at practices or games, and no committee of team moms to fill the breach.†   (source)
  • I watched my mother's face as she heard this, the way, despite her best efforts, she reacted to the various breaches of the conduct we'd long ago agreed on concerning my father and how he was mentioned.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Archbold stepped accommodatingly into the breach.†   (source)
  • Smuggling contraband was a very serious shot, a breach of security, and whenever they got out of the SHU, they would stay down on the Compound.†   (source)
  • The wolves knew a breach was coming, but the Cullens had no idea how they would react.†   (source)
  • It is the breach of an agreement, and I find that especially disquieting.†   (source)
  • It occurred to him suddenly that Gus might consider that they had breached their bargain.†   (source)
  • It was in my heart to speak, to make a breach in her self-absorption, in the solid stuff of her hometown and dying brother.†   (source)
  • Like a mason slamming a brick into hardening mortar, she sealed the breach.†   (source)
  • She breaches the pattern of femininity in rural India by talking back--and fighting back.†   (source)
  • I am speaking to a ghost, so I can be forgiven any breach of manners.†   (source)
  • Or it could be one of your own guys who entered from a different breach.†   (source)
  • So Mortenson shared out a bag of peanuts he had squirreled away for such an occasion, and Kais and Abdullah munched them hungrily until the sun breached the valley's eastern wall.†   (source)
  • He would not invest in a defense that could be breached in a day.†   (source)
  • I assume he's commenting on my ability to breach his force field, but I don't respond.†   (source)
  • On the way over, I had rehearsed a convincing rebuttal about the breach in press security — how I'd arrived late on the scene myself, and the real issue was the crime.†   (source)
  • A trial date for young Vladimir has not yet been discussed, but I do not think it will be long before the subject is breached.†   (source)
  • What good are loops if they can be breached by hollowgast?†   (source)
  • A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached.†   (source)
  • He is seated on his bed, staring through that narrow breach in the frosted window.†   (source)
  • Besides, allowing her to boss him would help repair any breach in their relationship.†   (source)
  • Returning African American soldiers who had helped breach Germany's Siegfried Line were told they weren't good enough to cross the color line of professional baseball.†   (source)
  • Then, as the birds dove down, I suddenly saw something dive up: a humpback whale breaching through the same fish the gannets were diving for.†   (source)
  • Hull breach.†   (source)
  • It's a serious offense to electronically breach the privacy of a state official."†   (source)
  • The boat's motors screamed in unison as the craft breached a precarious opening in the reef and burst out into open water.†   (source)
  • From a granite outcropping that breached the summit like the hump of a whale, they could see the smoke of battle rising beyond Boston, ten miles up the bay.†   (source)
  • I sat with her and stroked her face, willing her to waken for just a word, that I might say something to mend the breach between us.†   (source)
  • The steel jackets were badly battered, even breached, but we were hopeful the data could be extracted.†   (source)
  • I had begun to fear for it, when I realized that it was very small, but in a breach position.†   (source)
  • The forest had breached the walls, and swallowed keep and bailey.†   (source)
  • "Failed breach" came over the radio.†   (source)
  • And she didn't want to think about the home that had been lost to her, or her mother's parting tears, or the painful breach with her father that throbbed as much as the soreness that was still in her back and legs.†   (source)
  • And they have no answers for the breach we suffered last autumn.†   (source)
  • The number of women who have access to the president is, of course, a security breach that could bring down the presidency, whether through blackmail or even, say, covert assassination via hypodermic injection.†   (source)
  • The checkpoint is a breach in a tall chain-link fence that blocks the streets around the financial district.†   (source)
  • He saw her look of sudden attentiveness, the look of thought rushing into a breach torn open upon a new direction.†   (source)
  • He's talkin' bout breach a-promise.†   (source)
  • Commerce will never forgive a breach of trust like that.†   (source)
  • We're a circle or we're not, and a circle with chinks in it is easily breached.†   (source)
  • I was no longer extrapolating; I was looping it through the core, freely talking about my life, suddenly breaching the confidences of my father and my mother and my wife.†   (source)
  • Someone had breached the wall and could now see into the Giulianis' private park, into the Giulianis' windows themselves.†   (source)
  • Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster believed that this compromise would heal the rapidly growing breach between the North and the South.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you've read about the security breaches over at Rushville and New Castle.†   (source)
  • Under other circumstances, a war, not of paper but of the sword, would punish breaches of moral obligation and social justice.†   (source)
  • Once more into the breach.'†   (source)
  • But as the doors were closing, a hand poked through the breach and a man entered.†   (source)
  • You can breach their shields?†   (source)
  • Egypt claimed its ships, bound from the Black Sea to Alexandria, were being delayed in the Straits, and charged Turkey with a breach of the Montreaux Convention.†   (source)
  • The beach was still littered with masses of shattered coral, and in one place the reef itself seemed to have been breached.†   (source)
  • Soon our sub's periscope'll aim for Constantinople, As again we set hopeful to sea; Once more unto the breach, for those boys on the beach, Just my daddy, my doggie and me.†   (source)
  • She sensed a barrier being breached, ever so slightly, between them after so many hours in which his manner had been metallically impersonal, businesslike, the dictation delivered with the gelid unconcern of an automaton.†   (source)
  • In any huge and boisterous surge of energy and enthusiasm there must be errors and miscalculations, even breach of judgment and taste.†   (source)
  • I would have to count on my ability to talk or lie my way out of it, if catching me in this breach of domestic tranquility was what the note's author had had in mind.†   (source)
  • But with this small gap, with this small breach, the entire eternal and uniform law of the world is breaking apart again and becomes void.†   (source)
  • Old unfinished deals, business operations, breaches of contract.†   (source)
  • Bargaining on his death, he thought, as if I were the rejected suitor, primping up for one more try: once more unto the breach.†   (source)
  • ...it is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance.   (source)
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;   (source)
  • He was sued for breach of contract.
    breach = breaking
  • Once more unto the breach' is our motto.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon's secret museum had been simple to breach.†   (source)
  • If the levees were breached, he knew the battle would be lost.†   (source)
  • The doors splintered and the head of a bronze battering ram emerged through the breach.†   (source)
  • 'We've got a power source breach here, Captain.†   (source)
  • The Shield Wall is breached, Muad'Dib!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • We were all lined up outside, getting ready to breach in, when our OIC raised his voice.†   (source)
  • Looks like a serious breach of the Ban on Experimental Breeding to me.†   (source)
  • Nearing the flames, he closed his eyes and leaped high into the air to breach.†   (source)
  • Unless the breach in sector C14 worsens, we've got a little time left still.†   (source)
  • Unless the cable's breached somewhere," said the poet.†   (source)
  • Simon felt foolish, as if he'd committed a breach of etiquette.†   (source)
  • She freed Bast, and used her own power to seal the breach.†   (source)
  • But with a shudder he thought of those closer to the breaches.†   (source)
  • It formed a solid wall to their right as they entered the breach that divided the mountain range.†   (source)
  • They look like they might be breaching the north battlements, they've brought giants of their own.†   (source)
  • I should never breach the sanctity of the confessional, but in this case, I feel I must.†   (source)
  • "We've infiltrated the enemy camp, showing that the Capitol's defenses can be breached.†   (source)
  • Carefully reaching to the side of my helmet, I got the breach kit.†   (source)
  • CERN had suffered a major breach of security.†   (source)
  • But precise reason of breach impossible to determine.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise threw herself into the breach: "Still at the bank, Sarah?"†   (source)
  • He struggled to sever the magic's hold on him-to plug the breach through which his life streamed.†   (source)
  • He saw herds of humpbacks, breaching grey whales, schools of dolphins leading the ships to port.†   (source)
  • What kind of jolt will we feel with that breach?†   (source)
  • Once the platoon is inside, the breacher is really running things.†   (source)
  • I am breaching protocol by escorting you this far.†   (source)
  • I can tag a breaching porpoise from forty meters off the bow of a rocking ship.†   (source)
  • He tried to breach it, but it held firm before his efforts.†   (source)
  • The breach widened more and more with each passing millennium.†   (source)
  • The full force of the Hab's atmosphere rushed through the breach.†   (source)
  • The first lines of defense breached, the main bodies of the two forces collided for the first time.†   (source)
  • With three strokes of her feet, she breached it and sent a burst of shimmering water toward the sky.†   (source)
  • "They're going to deliberately breach the ship.†   (source)
  • In the event of a Hab breach, everyone would run to the airlocks.†   (source)
  • I was already working out how to cover the breach with ice.†   (source)
  • Then I have to find the breach and seal-strip a patch in place.†   (source)
  • Mostly on sealing the breach from when the Hab blew up.†   (source)
  • "They're going to breach the ship," Venkat said, still dumbfounded.†   (source)
  • Between the breach and the bloodletting, it quickly ran out of nitrogen.†   (source)
  • Then you close the valve, and you've sealed the breach.†   (source)
  • I got the breach kit over the hole and sealed it.†   (source)
  • Once we found the breach, we'd seal it with the spare canvas and resin.†   (source)
  • Resin designed to seal a breach against that pressure?†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the phone booth—sized airlock, a small breach was letting air escape.†   (source)
  • Be advised we are going to deliberately breach the VAL to produce thrust.†   (source)
  • The MDV is on its side and there's a breach in the hull.†   (source)
  • If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode.†   (source)
  • After eons, it finally breached the edge.†   (source)
  • But if the trailer breaches, I'll be fine.†   (source)
  • Have the emergency shelters ready in case the MAV didn't work and the Hab breached."†   (source)
  • There's a grim logic to this: If the rover breaches, I'm dead.†   (source)
  • "Vogel's got software for calculating course offsets caused by hull breaches, right?"†   (source)
  • You get the report on the Iranian border breaches down to General Mitchell?†   (source)
  • The reserve, he knew, ready to ride down anything that breached the ringwall.†   (source)
  • A quick test of security showed no breaches.†   (source)
  • In this metaphysical reality Thomas has breached, blood also plays a critical role.†   (source)
  • Once more into the breach, dear friends'?†   (source)
  • As though he sensed a breach of etiquette from afar, Sir Alistair Wesley appeared at Max's side.†   (source)
  • "You're under arrest for breach of secrecy and for interfering with a police investigation.†   (source)
  • An even larger giant leaped from the earth like a breaching whale.†   (source)
  • It would've been quite weak after breaching our defenses.†   (source)
  • We're not sure yet how the Institutes were breached, but we know—"†   (source)
  • Enemy giants moved toward the breach, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior's club.†   (source)
  • But Mary Burns, somehow, decided to breach that peace with me.†   (source)
  • I opened them narrowly, keeping my eyelashes feathered over the breach.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the realities can't be breached with-out understanding.†   (source)
  • In the Seven Kingdoms it is considered a grave breach of hospitality to poison your guest at supper.†   (source)
  • "A custom rarely breached in this town," said Abbott, amused.†   (source)
  • There was only one breach in the wall, at the point where a bridge spanned the river.†   (source)
  • When the walls of Pyke crashed down, he was the first through the breach.†   (source)
  • Murdered in breach of all the sacred laws of hospitality.†   (source)
  • An eighteen-wheeler was breached in their way.†   (source)
  • It was I who fulfilled my duty and ran to the breach while Bram ran to his wife.†   (source)
  • "Once more into the breach," she said, and began to climb down.†   (source)
  • Of the moon and stars they saw no sign, no flash or pale gleam to breach the oppressive gloom.†   (source)
  • He has to get up in front of the American people and tell them there was no breach of faith.†   (source)
  • Make every allowance for errors of "knowledge; do not forgive or accept any breach of morality.†   (source)
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