Read full poem →But Umbriel, hateful Gnome! forbears not so;
He breaks the vial whence the sorrows flow.
Then see! the nymph in beauteous grief appears,
Dictionary Entry
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
In a Sentence
“The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
down breaks. breaksoff breaksbreaks tax
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Poetry examples for “breaks”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →hidden,
Where life breaks loud and unseen, a sonorous invisible tide;
By the sands where sorrow has trodden, the salt pools bitter and
Read full poem →Till a relic be left not of sand
To the hour-glass that breaks in his hand;
From the change in the grey garden-closes
Read full poem →By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue
And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light.
Among the flashing waves are two white birds
Read full poem →And round about you, glory breaks,
Read full poem →On you the lilies ehoweriog down ;
And round about you gtory breaks,
That BomeThing mote than iuiinan spealta
Read full poem →Whose great tranquil depths unconscious the wind-tost surface
Breaks into ripples of trouble that come and change and endure not,—
But that in this, of a truth, we have our being, and know it,
Read full poem →She shew d till now ? when having won his way.
How full of wonder he breaks out again
And sheds his virtuous beams ?**
Read full poem →audience, Jonson says that they damned it for want of the vicious and
bawdy scenes which they had been accustomed to, and then breaks out in
a rapture worthy of Jonson, worthy of Fletcher:
Read full poem →probably initiated from their school-days into a deep-grounded contempt
of it, which breaks out in many parts of their works, and particularly in
The Bloody Brother and The Fair Maid of the Inn, where they began