‘ I ’ve been breaking break in the grey colt — no easy business that — directing direct the ploughing plough of 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 . ’

I remember remember him looking look round the cover and whistling whistle to himself as he did so , and then breaking break out 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 ! "

Cameron resented resent the breaking break of his lonely campfire vigil vigil , but he respected the law of the desert .

Then there came a breaking break of reserve reserve , noticeable in the elder man , almost imperceptibly gradual in Cameron .

I thought think of 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 struck strike into their souls ; of how many were employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters ; of how , breaking break the law , and that not secretly , we gave give them knives and arms , a soldier 's bread , in exchange exchange for pelts and pearls ; of how their emperor was forever sending us smooth messages ; of how their lips smiled and their eyes frowned .