All 14 Uses of
breach
in
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
- Chapter 1 — INTO THE BREACH.†
Chpt 1 *breach = break or penetrate
- It would not do to become careless; he never knew when an enemy spellcaster might fire an enchanted arrow that could breach his wards.†
Chpt 1
- I wouldguess that when we breached the city walls, Lord Bradburn's courage failed him and he ordered Niemen brought from his armory in an attempt to stop you and Saphira.†
Chpt 1breached = broke or penetrated
- Can any of them be breached?†
Chpt 16
- The upper part would be the most difficult to breach, but he guessed that long periods of immersion had weakened the grid below, and if part of it could be torn away, breaking through the oak boards above would be far easier.†
Chpt 20breach = break or penetrate
- It seemed impossible that anyone could breach the city's defenses in so little time, with so few men, and without the aid of either a dragon or Rider.†
Chpt 22
- Eragon drew in his breath, then he breached Aren's precious hoard and shouted, "Jierda!†
Chpt 34breached = broke or penetrated
- Which meant a frontal assault—a brazen fool's charge over open ground toward walls too thick to breach and too tall to climb while archers and war machines shot at them the whole time.†
Chpt 58breach = break or penetrate
- Even if they managed to breach the walls, they would still have the whole of Galbatorix's army to overcome.†
Chpt 58
- They will think we're defending the warriors trying to breach this section, she replied.†
Chpt 62
- He and several men from Carvahall, including Horst and Delwin, took the lead as they trotted along the inside of the wall toward the breach the elves had created with their magic.†
Chpt 65
- The white raven circled once over Islanzadi's body and uttered a doleful cry, then flew slowly toward the breach in the outer wall, the feathers of its wounded wing red and crumpled.†
Chpt 67
- It took three or four minutes—precious time in which Barst and his soldiers pushed the Varden ever closer to the breach in the outer wall—but then Roran saw groups of dwarves and elves run up to twelve of the nearest ballistae and catapults on the walls and free them from the soldiers.†
Chpt 67
- The gray and black humps of great sea-fish often breached the waves, like small, leathery islands.†
Chpt 73breached = broke or penetrated
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.