All 6 Uses of
breach
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- —They are sundered by a bodily shame so steadfast that the criminal annals of the world, stained with all other incests and bestialities, hardly record its breach.†
Chpt 9 *
- Letters read out for breach of promise.†
Chpt 11
- And says John Wyse: —'tis a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance.†
Chpt 12
- …that she would dance in a deluge before ever she would starve in such an ark of salvation for, as she reminded me (blushing piquantly and whispering in my ear though there was none to snap her words but giddy butterflies), dame Nature, by the divine blessing, has implanted it in our hearts and it has become a household word that il y a deux choses for which the innocence of our original garb, in other circumstances a breach of the proprieties, is the fittest, nay, the only garment.†
Chpt 14
- MARTHA: (Sobbing behind her veil) Breach of promise.†
Chpt 15
- With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and of death.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall