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Updated: June 16, 2025
Once, when one of the dining-room girls dropped a tray of dishes and half the women went to bed with headache from the nervous shock, he never even looked up, but went on with his dinner, and the only comment he made afterward was to tell the head waitress to see that Annie didn't have to pay breakage that the trays were too heavy for a woman, anyhow. As Miss Cobb said, he was impossible.
Engine failure, though a fruitful cause of minor accidents, and of the breakage of machines, has led to few fatalities; and this has been due very largely to the fact that, though machines have descended under dangerous circumstances, and have been wrecked in a manner that would appear almost certain to kill their occupants, the pilots and passengers have, as a matter of fact, escaped often with no more than a shock or bruises.
Secondly, the breakage of the suspicious axle was caused by a hollow space having been blown in it and a straw very cleverly inserted. "Eh! Monsieur le baron, whoever did that was malicious!" he said; "any one would swear, to look at it, that the axle was sound." Monsieur de Maulincour begged the carriage-maker to say nothing of the affair; but he felt himself warned.
Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout passed through the lobby of the theatre to the outside, where they encountered the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, furious with rage. He demanded damages for the "breakage" of the pyramid; and Phileas Fogg appeased him by giving him a handful of banknotes. At half-past six, the very hour of departure, Mr.
No: she stood very sheepish, very uncomfortable, but not in the least bold or sulky on the whole, looking rather penitent and humble. Her mistress took courage. "Elizabeth I want you to tell me the truth about that unfortunate breakage. Don't be afraid. I had rather you broke every thing in the house than have told me what was not true." "It was true; it was the cat." "How could that be possible?
It may interest you to hear that their wages for three days amounted to nearly seven hundred dollars in our money, to say nothing of materials and breakage." "Breakage?" I exclaimed in surprise. "Yes, sir, breakage. They break nearly as much as they mend. We'll we'll go bankrupt, sir, if we're not careful." I liked his pronoun. "Never mind," I said, "we'll soon be rid of them."
The staircase, too, deserves attention for its convenience, with the eccentric breakage of its flights of steps; the whole construction being so altered from the common usage of other architects as to excite astonishment in all who see it."
As on the previous occasion a violent dry north-west wind blew, peeling the skin from our faces, loading the air with grains of sand, and rendering theodolite observations very uncertain; besides injuring all my instruments, and exposing them to great risk of breakage.
Of his skill we knew fearsome stories, as that, by looking at Archie Allardyce, who had come to broken bones on a ladder, he discovered which rung Archie fell from. When he entered a stuffy room he would poke his staff through the window to let in fresh air, and then fling down a shilling to pay for the breakage.
Work as hard as she can, driving her machine until late into the night, she is able to make only five dozen pairs of overalls a week, which, when expressage and breakage of needles are taken out, leaves her two dollars and sixty-five cents. The rent is a dollar and a half, which leaves one dollar and fifteen cents for the food and clothing of a mother and three children.
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