All 4 Uses of
rupture
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Well, sir, the rupture of a blood-vessel on the lobe of the brain has destroyed all this, not in a day, not in an hour, but in a second.†
Chpt 47-48 *
- Some time after our rupture, you wished to study music, under the celebrated baritone who made such a successful appearance at the Theatre Italien; at the same time I felt inclined to learn dancing of the danseuse who acquired such a reputation in London.†
Chpt 65-66
- I really am quite ashamed to have been the cause of your undergoing such severe self-examination; let us drop the subject, and adopt the middle course of delay, which implies neither a rupture nor an engagement.†
Chpt 77-78
- Because the rupture or fulfilment of this engagement is connected with the person of whom we were speaking.†
Chpt 83-84
Definition:
to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument