Both Uses of
breach
in
David Copperfield
- Between these two proud persons, mother and son, there is a wider breach than before, and little hope of its healing, for they are one at heart, and time makes each more obstinate and imperious.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- But a great cry, which was audible even above the wind and water, rose from the shore at this moment; the sea, sweeping over the rolling wreck, made a clean breach, and carried men, spars, casks, planks, bulwarks, heaps of such toys, into the boiling surge.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall