Breaks-off Sentence Examples

But speculative knowledge breaks down or breaks off at an earlier point.

None the less, he gives a more vivid impression of his, age than any other English chronicler; and it is a matter for regret that his great history breaks off in 1259, on the eve of the crowning struggle between Henry III and the baronage.

He wrestles with Achelous for Deianeira (" destructive to husband "), daughter of Oeneus, king of Calydon, vanquishes the river god, and breaks off one of his horns, which as a horn of plenty is found as an attribute of Hercules in art.

His epic in fourteen books, known as Ta µe6' "Oµrjpov or Posthomerica, takes up the tale of Troy at the point where Homer's Iliad breaks off (the death of Hector), and carries it down to the capture of the city by the Greeks.

In many lizards the muscles of the segments of the tail are so loosely connected and the vertebrae are so weak that the tail easily breaks off.

Thereupon it proceeds to a discourse on friendship, which in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics is discussed in an earlier position, but breaks off unfinished.

Lightfoot's posthumous fragment (Notes on Epistles of St Paul, 18 95, pp. 2 37-3 0 5) unfortunately breaks off at vii.

The work breaks off abruptly; originally it no doubt went down to the death of Manuel, and there are indications that, even in its present form, it is an abridgment.

This work breaks off abruptly at the end of 1142, with an unfulfilled promise that it will be continued.

The narrative of Tacitus breaks off at the moment when Thrasea was about to address Demetrius, the Cynic philosopher, with whom he had previously on the fatal day held a conversation on the nature of the soul.

His narrative breaks off in the middle of 1141, though he added some finishing touches in 1142.

In Preuschen, Reste, p. 13, the quotation breaks off too soon.

If I see, clearly see, that ladder leading from plant to man, why should I suppose it breaks off at me and does not go farther and farther?

Unfortunately, not every engagement works out, and if your heir has used your engagement ring but breaks off the relationship, you want to be able to recover your ring.

When a small piece of the diamond breaks off from the stone, it is referred to as a chip.

Ashley then breaks off her relationship with the mogul.

The clean edge breaks off evenly, without those telltale chads and nubs common to computer generated business cards that raise red flags when passed around at networking meetings.