All 7 Uses of
rupture
in
War and Peace
- But the story of the duel, confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society.†
Chpt 5 *
- I told him everything as best I could, and told him what I had proposed to our Petersburg lodge, of the bad reception I had encountered, and of my rupture with the Brothers.†
Chpt 6
- "Mamma darling, it's not at all so…. my poor, sweet darling," she said to her mother, who conscious that they had been on the brink of a rupture gazed at her son with terror, but in the obstinacy and excitement of the conflict could not and would not give way.†
Chpt 7
- He anxiously questioned the princess, asked her to speak out fully and confide her grief to him; but she only repeated that she begged him to forget what she had said, that she did not remember what she had said, and that she had no trouble except the one he knew of—that Prince Andrew's marriage threatened to cause a rupture between father and son.†
Chpt 8
- And in Helene's salon, which Rumyantsev himself honored with his visits, regarding Helene as a remarkably intelligent woman, they talked with the same ecstasy in 1812 as in 1808 of the "great nation" and the "great man," and regretted our rupture with France, a rupture which, according to them, ought to be promptly terminated by peace.†
Chpt 10
- And in Helene's salon, which Rumyantsev himself honored with his visits, regarding Helene as a remarkably intelligent woman, they talked with the same ecstasy in 1812 as in 1808 of the "great nation" and the "great man," and regretted our rupture with France, a rupture which, according to them, ought to be promptly terminated by peace.†
Chpt 10
- He now understood for the first time all the cruelty of his rejection of her, the cruelty of his rupture with her.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(rupture) to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument