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Don't break off the branch.
Why did she break off her speech?
In 1060, a coin shaped like a clover was minted in England, the user could break off any of the four leaves, and use them as separate pieces of currency.
Let's break off, shall we?
(e) When the block is cold, break off the metal L's; trim off the excess of paraffin from around the tissue[Pg 119] with a knife, taking care to retain the rectangular shape, and store the block in a pill-box.
13, c); break off the sealed extremity with a pair of sterile forceps.
The first is, That if you take such a piece, and for a pretty while boyl it in Turpentine and Oyl of Turpentine, you shall find that the stone will be all imbu'd with it; and whereas before it look'd more white, but more opacous, now it will look more greasie, but be much more transparent, and if you let it lie but a little while, and then break off a part of it, you shall find the unctuous body to have penetrated it to such a determinate depth every way within the surface.
Sixthly, in its rigidness, and friability, being not at all flexible but brittle like a Flint, insomuch that I could with one knock of a Hammer break off a piece of it, and with a few more, reduce that into a pretty fine powder.
Here the threads form long narrow spores which break off and form other spores until[Pg 575] the body-cavity is entirely filled.
Or, what is better, carefully break off the stem.
This mite causes the feathers to break off at the surface of the skin.
Each segment is sexually complete, possessing both the male and female organs, and when mature, one or more of them break off and are passed out with the faeces.
There are above seventy species of Jasmine, more than twenty of which have been introduced into Britain; but they may be all easily recognised by their flowers, which bear a strong family likeness to each other, and by the petioles of their leaves, which are always articulated or jointed, that is, they will break off the stem without tearing the bark.
‘Now, I had often told him not to break off the communications so abruptly.
Then "the beginning of a New Year" is "animating" enough; and, while we wash and shave, we pledge ourselves, like Matthew[275] Arnold, to "break off bad habits and carry into effect good resolutions.
"Do you break off," she asked then, with her former air of being afraid of me, "because you hate me too much to bear to speak to me?
"It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won't kill you, but if you take one you'll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die-do you understand that?
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