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Updated: May 29, 2025
Hester, too, observed the heavy broken-down expression on Philip's ashen face, and her heart ached for him; but after that first glance, which told her so much, she avoided all appearance of noticing or watching. Only a shadow brooded over her sweet, calm face, and once or twice she sighed to herself.
The vines here partly supported by decayed and broken-down trellises, there twining themselves among the branches of the slender saplings which had sprung up among them grew in wild and unpruned luxuriance, and the few scattered grapes they bore were the undisputed prey of the first comer.
Winslow, there was an expression of actual distress upon his face, as though he realized that he was about to lose the greatest spectacle of the whole affair in being debarred from that room when Archibald Graylock was ushered in. Dick managed to precede the broken-down merchant, and opening the door allowed him to enter. He was about to go out himself, when Mr. Gibbs said: "Don't go, Richard.
A mixture of all sorts, especially bad sorts: broken-down clerks, men who could not succeed anywhere else, sailors, youths, and some whose characters would not have borne any investigation; and we very nearly all drank hard, and those who didn't drink hard took more than was good for them. I don't know exactly what induced me to go out there.
"Well, it seems he had, or else he used somebody else's brains; there's plenty of broken-down English gentlemen sharpers knocking about out back, you know, and Bogan might have been taking lessons from one. I don't know the rights of the case, it was hushed up, as you'll see presently; but, anyway, the jackaroos swore that Bogan had done 'em out of ten quid.
There is just as much need for the specialist to train the pupil at the start as there is for the head of the "meisterschule" to guide the budding virtuoso. How can we expect the pupil to make rapid progress if the start is not right? One might as well expect a broken-down automobile to win a race.
"Ole Miss," she said, indignantly, "my Tom say that he can't get nary a triflin' nigger to come out hyeh to wuk, an' ef that cawnfiel' ain't ploughed mighty soon, it's gwine to bu'n up." "How many horses are there on the place, Mammy?" asked Dan. "Hosses!" sniffed the old woman. "They ain't NARY a hoss nothin' but two ole broken-down mules."
In 1843 and 1844, I knew men to work for fourpence a day something over the dole on which we are told, being mostly incredulous as we hear it, that a Coolie labourer can feed himself with rice in India; not one man or two men, the broken-down incapables of the parish, but the best labour of the country.
Many of them were young, but there were some of all ages broken-down gentlemen, unprepared for colonial life, without energy or perseverance, unable and still oftener unwilling to work. The brothers had not to inquire who they were. Their history was written on their foreheads. "What shall we do next?" asked Arthur. "I should like to get out of this place as soon as possible."
He was prowling in sequestered lanes and broken-down barns out of bounds on the off-chance that he might catch some member of his house smoking there. As if the whole of the house, from the head to the smallest fag, were not on the field watching Day's best bats collapse before Henderson's bowling, and Moriarty hit up that marvellous and unexpected fifty-three at the end of the second innings!
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