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  • Edgar let this breach of etiquette slide, and they retreated.†   (source)
  • We still do not understand the extent of it, nor the extent of the breach of our territorial boundaries by unknown intruders.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She can hear a scuffle and then the shot comes like a breach of crimson light: the eruption of Krakatoa.†   (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)
  • Had his breach of the International Statute of Secrecy been severe enough to land him in a cell in Azkaban?†   (source)
  • A tractor at last breached a hole in the seawall, and a few men began to go through.†   (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)
  • I pressed down the telephone button and let it up again, ready to dial Caroline's work number, except that suddenly I felt a shyness, as if there were a breach between the two of us that I had to brave.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We have a breach.†   (source)
  • Breach man's mind.†   (source)
  • He slowed his digging rate, poking the soft clay gently until his fingers breached the tunnel wall.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It would've been quite weak after breaching our defenses.†   (source)
  • Every day brought defections and security breaches.†   (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)
  • As he had feared, a significant lump had already formed, emerging like a humpbacked whale breaching the wild waves of his thinning hair.†   (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)
  • No window that could be breached.†   (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)
  • 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 and what Var ancillaries she had serving her had taken my engines, and breached the heat shield.†   (source)
  • He had a breach of promise with a hairdresser, a widow, who came to Ann Arbor from St. Louis, Mich.†   (source)
  • She was also breached and the amount of amniotic fluid—liquid that nourishes and protects the developing infant—was low.†   (source)
  • Disguised as women, their mission is to breach the giants' stronghold and recapture Thor's hammer.†   (source)
  • Chapter 26 — Breach of Privacy†   (source)
  • Somewhere, she thought, there was a chink in that armor; somewhere, if she could find the right words, it could be breached.†   (source)
  • It is the breach of an agreement, and I find that especially disquieting.†   (source)
  • And more red lights come up on the windshield: the perimeter security of the Deliverator's vehicle has been breached.†   (source)
  • The wolves knew a breach was coming, but the Cullens had no idea how they would react.†   (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)
  • There was no breach of faith.†   (source)
  • The breach of trust was irreparable.†   (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)
  • I'm sorry, Martin, but it would be a breach of that contract if I told you anything without Henrik's permission.†   (source)
  • An Atreides daughter could've been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the 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)
  • "Once more into the breach?" said Dan, trying to make a joke.†   (source)
  • The slightest breach in decorum would find the perpetrator kicked off on the side of the road, no matter where we were.†   (source)
  • SEAL Team FOUR was where you made your debut, Stabbing your face on a dive would be nothing new At Stennis you proved insects were a menace, First bees and then ants breached your defenses.†   (source)
  • She wondered if she had sustained a breach in her right main glove.†   (source)
  • She breaches the pattern of femininity in rural India by talking back—and fighting back.†   (source)
  • He is seated on his bed, staring through that narrow breach in the frosted window.†   (source)
  • "Dad is suing them for breach of contract," she said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It occurred to him suddenly that Gus might consider that they had breached their bargain.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Archbold stepped accommodatingly into the breach.†   (source)
  • Like a mason slamming a brick into hardening mortar, she sealed the breach.†   (source)
  • A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached.†   (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)
  • And they have no answers for the breach we suffered last autumn.†   (source)
  • I am speaking to a ghost, so I can be forgiven any breach of manners.†   (source)
  • That was where Robert had made his breach, swarming in over the rubble and corpses with his warhammer in hand and Ned Stark at his side.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They have to do with bad manners, or worse, breaches of faith and loyalty.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It's a serious offense to electronically breach the privacy of a state official.†   (source)
  • Besides, allowing her to boss him would help repair any breach in their relationship.†   (source)
  • He would not invest in a defense that could be breached in a day.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • There's been a breach.†   (source)
  • What good are loops if they can be breached by hollowgast?†   (source)
  • I had begun to fear for it, when I realized that it was very small, but in a breach position.†   (source)
  • He's talkin' bout breach a-promise.†   (source)
  • "A custom rarely breached in this town," said Abbott, amused.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "I am going explosive," I whispered to Will, and grabbed the breaching charge off the back of my kit.†   (source)
  • Someone had breached the wall and could now see into the Giulianis' private park, into the Giulianis' windows themselves.†   (source)
  • He saw her look of sudden attentiveness, the look of thought rushing into a breach torn open upon a new direction.†   (source)
  • Through a sudden breach in the clouds he saw a sliver of clear sky brightly crowded with stars.†   (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)
  • We're a circle or we're not, and a circle with chinks in it is easily breached.†   (source)
  • The steel jackets were badly battered, even breached, but we were hopeful the data could be extracted.†   (source)
  • I assume he's commenting on my ability to breach his force field, but I don't respond.†   (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)
  • Once more into the breach.'†   (source)
  • Under other circumstances, a war, not of paper but of the sword, would punish breaches of moral obligation and social justice.†   (source)
  • You can breach their shields?†   (source)
  • I'm sure you've read about the security breaches over at Rushville and New Castle.†   (source)
  • She pressed the button for the eighth floor and moved to the corner of the carriage, but as the doors were closing a hand appeared in the breach.†   (source)
  • Commerce will never forgive a breach of trust like that.†   (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)
  • In any huge and boisterous surge of energy and enthusiasm there must be errors and miscalculations, even breach of judgment and taste.†   (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)
  • Though it seemed an unhealthy breach of etiquette, Yama, among all the gods, was deemed hardest to discipline and was aware of this fact, as well as the reasons that lay behind it.†   (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)
  • The beach was still littered with masses of shattered coral, and in one place the reef itself seemed to have been breached.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He was sued for breach of contract.
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;   (source)
  • ...it is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance.   (source)
  • Neither of them knew what to say or do. Finally Marilla stepped lamely into the breach.   (source)
    breach = gap (figuratively, like defenders stepping into a gap in a protective wall so that attackers cannot enter)
  • Once more unto the breach' is our motto.†   (source)
  • The doors splintered and the head of a bronze battering ram emerged through the breach.†   (source)
  • Enemy giants moved toward the breach, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior's club.†   (source)
  • If the levees were breached, he knew the battle would be lost.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon's secret museum had been simple to breach.†   (source)
  • And I knew with gloomy certainty the breach was already too wide for me to jump back across.†   (source)
  • The Shield Wall is breached, Muad'Dib!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • She needed to get aboard a ship, order it closer to the palace, and breach its heat shield herself.†   (source)
  • Looks like a serious breach of the Ban on Experimental Breeding to me.†   (source)
  • Of the moon and stars they saw no sign, no flash or pale gleam to breach the oppressive gloom.†   (source)
  • We were all lined up outside, getting ready to breach in, when our OIC raised his voice.†   (source)
  • He has to get up in front of the American people and tell them there was no breach of faith.†   (source)
  • Am I wrong to assume that this breach was not of your making?†   (source)
  • Unless the cable's breached somewhere," said the poet.†   (source)
  • Between the breach and the bloodletting, it quickly ran out of nitrogen.†   (source)
  • Add to that the radar signatures indicating a breach of US airspace on the first day of the attack.†   (source)
  • It formed a solid wall to their right as they entered the breach that divided the mountain range.†   (source)
  • 'We've got a power source breach here, Captain.†   (source)
  • There was a bang and a hammering, the sound of a crowbar breaching a seam.†   (source)
  • But there didn't have to be any production at all, no breach, no reconciliation, no drama.†   (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)
  • But with a shudder he thought of those closer to the breaches.†   (source)
  • Nearing the flames, he closed his eyes and leaped high into the air to breach.†   (source)
  • CERN had suffered a major breach of security.†   (source)
  • Simon felt foolish, as if he'd committed a breach of etiquette.†   (source)
  • But precise reason of breach impossible to determine.†   (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)
  • Mostly on sealing the breach from when the Hab blew up.†   (source)
  • Once the platoon is inside, the breacher is really running things.†   (source)
  • I am breaching protocol by escorting you this far.†   (source)
  • She'll breach its heat shield and destroy us all.†   (source)
  • The mist curled upward, seeking a breach, a weakness.†   (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 engines' heat shield was, by design, extremely difficult to breach, but I knew how to do it.†   (source)
  • Once we found the breach, we'd seal it with the spare canvas and resin.†   (source)
  • The first lines of defense breached, the main bodies of the two forces collided for the first time.†   (source)
  • "They're going to breach the ship," Venkat said, still dumbfounded.†   (source)
  • Anaander Mianaai breached my heat shield.†   (source)
  • With three strokes of her feet, she breached it and sent a burst of shimmering water toward the sky.†   (source)
  • One, vacuum suit breached, blood boiling through the tear.†   (source)
  • The MDV is on its side and there's a breach in the hull.†   (source)
  • The full force of the Hab's atmosphere rushed through the breach.†   (source)
  • They had damaged the ship—cut conduits, breached the hull.†   (source)
  • Which is why she breached my heat shield.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the phone booth—sized airlock, a small breach was letting air escape.†   (source)
  • Resin designed to seal a breach against that pressure?†   (source)
  • Then I have to find the breach and seal-strip a patch in place.†   (source)
  • Be advised we are going to deliberately breach the VAL to produce thrust.†   (source)
  • Carefully reaching to the side of my helmet, I got the breach kit.†   (source)
  • They're going to deliberately breach the ship.†   (source)
  • The breach widened more and more with each passing millennium.†   (source)
  • Then you close the valve, and you've sealed the breach.†   (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)
  • What kind of jolt will we feel with that breach?†   (source)
  • I got the breach kit over the hole and sealed it.†   (source)
  • There's a grim logic to this: If the rover breaches, I'm dead.†   (source)
  • If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode.†   (source)
  • Have the emergency shelters ready in case the MAV didn't work and the Hab breached.†   (source)
  • But if the trailer breaches, I'll be fine.†   (source)
  • After eons, it finally breached the edge.†   (source)
  • Vogel's got software for calculating course offsets caused by hull breaches, right?†   (source)
  • The forest had breached the walls, and swallowed keep and bailey.†   (source)
  • I opened them narrowly, keeping my eyelashes feathered over the breach.†   (source)
  • You get the report on the Iranian border breaches down to General Mitchell?†   (source)
  • In the Seven Kingdoms it is considered a grave breach of hospitality to poison your guest at supper.†   (source)
  • A quick test of security showed no breaches.†   (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)
  • In this metaphysical reality Thomas has breached, blood also plays a critical role.†   (source)
  • Once more into the breach, dear friends'?†   (source)
  • We're not sure yet how the Institutes were breached, but we know—†   (source)
  • As though he sensed a breach of etiquette from afar, Sir Alistair Wesley appeared at Max's side.†   (source)
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