1 Your pardon, my friend, that unknowingly I did break the seal.
2 Then, for the first time in my life, I saw Van Helsing break down.
3 Even the madness of fright was not to them, so that they could break away.
4 With this stake came a heavy hammer, such as in households is used in the coal-cellar for breaking the lumps.
5 To my astonishment, he did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the matter in simple seriousness.
6 I shall tell him that we have days before us, and we must not break down when most of all his strength will be needed.
7 Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break.
8 You are strong in your numbers, for you can defy that which would break down the human endurance of one who had to guard alone.
9 I called to the coachman to come, for it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break out through the ring and to aid his approach.
10 God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.
11 It was only when I told him that we should want him to help us during the day, and that we must not all break down for want of rest, lest Lucy should suffer, that he agreed to go.
12 I thought that the Professor was going to break down and have hysterics, just as he had when Lucy died, but with a great effort he controlled himself and was at perfect nervous poise when Mrs. Harker tripped into the room, bright and happy-looking and, in the doing of work, seemingly forgetful of her misery.