"Broken in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... partly decayed, and some still whole remaining, with pillers small vpon great, with their excellent heads of an exact and most perfect closing, crowned battelments, embost caruings, bearing forth like embroderie, arched beames, mightie mettaline images, ouerthrowne and broken in sunder, the trunke of their exact and perfect members, appearing hollow of brasse. Skyffes, small boates and vessels of Numidian stone and Porphyr, and diuers couloured marble. Great lauers condites, and other infinite fragments of notable woorkmanship, far different ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna
... the outside; (deeper or shallower according as he continues the application, a longer, or lesser while.) Of which kind there be divers pieces to be seen in Oxford, London, and elsewhere. And some of them being shewed to his Majesty, soon after his happy restauration, they were broken in his presence, and found to answer expectation. And others may be dayly seen, by any who is curious, or ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... an excess of mean variation of the smaller group over that of the larger in each of the three forms. It is true also of the individual subjects except in two instances, in each of which the two indices are equal. This proportion is broken in the relation of the primary interval to the unit group in the dactylic rhythm form. A similar diversity of the individual records occurred in the ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various
... had passed before the news reached Cateau (on the twenty-fifth of August) that the "idols" had been broken in all the churches of Valenciennes, Antwerp, Ghent, Tournay, and elsewhere. Although stirred to its very depths by the exciting intelligence, the Protestant population still contained itself, and merely consulted convenience ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... causes the pain, and for the possession of the good which alone can remove it. It is certainly not the case in this world, that bad men are always disposed to repent and turn to God in proportion as they suffer from their own wilfulness, and become poor from idleness, broken in health from dissipation, alienated from human hearts by their selfishness, or pass, with a constantly increasing anguish, through all the stages of outcasts from the family; dwellers among the profligate; companions in crime; occupiers of prisons; members of convict gangs, till the scaffold with ...
— Parish Papers • Norman Macleod
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