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Definition
break — as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
- And though he was told she was an idiot, he pronounced that for a young woman of twenty to wander about in nothing but a smock was a breach of the proprieties, and must not occur again.Book 3 — The Sensualists (8% in)
- He could restrain himself on occasion, and in his relations with the teachers he never overstepped that last mystic limit beyond which a prank becomes an unpardonable breach of discipline.Book 10 — The Boys (2% in)
- But Kolya, seeing his dog's passionate excitement, decided that it was a breach of discipline, kept him for another minute under the bench, and only when he had opened the door into the passage, whistled for him.Book 10 — The Boys (15% in)
There are no more uses of "breach" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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