Word: broke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After a thoughtful silence he again broke...
...Yale Record of May 19 notices a fire which broke out in one of their college buildings on Sunday last. Some students had been smoking cigarettes just before church, and during their attendance at divine service the stumps, which appear to have been thrown into an easy-chair, set their room on fire. An impromptu fire-brigade succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but the room was rendered almost uninhabitable. It is a lesson worth remembering. While cuspidors and ash-pans still exist, it is to be hoped that easy-chairs will not again be called upon to take their place...
Soft the wild waves broke about...
...their due proportion of time, but let every well-educated man have a little knowledge of this sort, for he cannot tell how soon he may be called upon to use it. Let not the next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells...
...early hour the company broke up, well satisfied with the first Annual Magenta Supper...