In this instance I was , of course , positive that Powell was the center of attraction , but whether I thought or acted first I do not know , but within an instant from the moment the scene brokebreakupon my view I had whippedwhipout my revolvers and was chargingchargedown upon the entire army of warriors , shootingshootrapidly , and whoopingwhoopingat the top of my lungs .
My poor boy ’s deathdeathhas brokenbreakthe last link between me and civilization , and I ’m off to my native wilds .
Then there came a breakingbreakof reservereserve, noticeable in the elder man , almost imperceptibly gradual in Cameron .
I rememberrememberhim lookinglookround the cover and whistlingwhistleto himself as he did so , and then breakingbreakout in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards : " Fifteen men on the dead man 's chest -- Yo-ho-ho , and a bottle of rum ! "
“ Surely she could learn Persian , ” brokebreakin a thin , elderly gentleman .
A gush of tearstearat her mother 's farewell kisskiss, a touchtouchin her throat when the cars clackedclackby the flour mill where her father worked by the day , a pathetic sighsighas the familiar green environs of the village passedpassin review , and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably brokenbreak.
At length , strugglingstruggleto get loose , I had the fortune to breakbreakthe strings , and wrenchwrenchout the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for , by liftingliftit up to my face , I discovereddiscoverthe methods they had taken to bindbindme , and at the same time with a violent pullpull, which gave me excessive painpain, I a little loosenedloosenthe strings that tied down my hair on the left side , so that I was just able to turnturnmy head about two inches .
‘ I ’ve been breakingbreakin the grey colt — no easy business that — directingdirectthe ploughingploughof the last wheat stubble — for the ploughboy has not the sense to direct himself — and carrying out a plan for the extensive and efficient draining of the low meadowlands . ’
It was not till almost a year after this that I brokebreakloose , though , in the meantime , I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to business , and frequently expostulated with my father and mother about their being so positively determined against what they knew my inclinations prompted me to .
I had wanderedwanderinto it at noontime , when all nature is peculiarly quiet , and was startledstartledby the roarroarof my own gun , as it brokebreakthe Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoesecho.
I thoughtthinkof the terms we now kept with these heathen ; of how they came and went familiarly amongst us , spying out our weakness , and losing the salutary awe which that noblest captain had struckstrikeinto their souls ; of how many were employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters ; of how , breakingbreakthe law , and that not secretly , we gavegivethem knives and arms , a soldier 's bread , in exchangeexchangefor pelts and pearls ; of how their emperor was forever sending us smooth messages ; of how their lips smiled and their eyes frowned .
The shrine of the four-handed god was pollutedpolluteby the slaughterslaughterof sacred animals ; the images of the deities were brokenbreakin pieces ; and the Moonstone was seizedseizeby an officer of rank in the army of Aurungzebe .