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1. It was all a bunch of broken-down junk, all of it beyond any repair, even that of the most advanced alien scientists
2. Later, they all rendezvoused outside the broken-down alien laboratory and explained everything that had just happened
3. In front of us was a broken-down
4. Earlier, his idea as to what was the cause of his delay had been problems with that broken-down heap of a sedan he drove, while she had imagined him oversleeping, but too many calls to his apartment had been placed and too much time had gone by for either scenario to be true
5. Her delight came from the third recorded phone call, in which, she claimed, Mike negotiated to purchase broken-down horses for more than double their value
6. There was risk in rest, so they pushed on, riding a diesel-belching, broken-down, old bus that coughed and sputtered its way along the nearly impassible road to Chisec, caught another, equally decrepit, to Xuctzul where Spanish wasn’t regularly spoken and the Native tongue Truman knew served only slightly better at communication, but was extremely more hospitably received: people who had claimed to know nothing of the area when questioned in Spanish, suddenly became fountains of useful information
7. I always just took the broken-down sectors of Chicago in stride, as evidence of what happens when people are without community
8. She shrieked in fright when she saw a brown shape disappear behind the broken-down wall of the farmhouse
9. Hank motioned for them to sit down on and old broken-down couch as he continued his conversation with the Dry Creek police dispatcher
10. Between our two houses stood a broken-down fence
11. Fajid, greets me and drives me in a broken-down Town car to my hotel
12. Although he had never seen them and no one had ever described them to him he immediately recognized the walls eaten away by bone salt, the broken-down wooden balconies gutted by fungus, and nailed to the outside door, almost erased by rain, the saddest cardboard sign in the world: Funeral Wreaths for Sale
13. ” arranged Melquíades’ broken-down cot for him and at two in the afternoon, while Fernanda was taking her siesta, she passed a plate of food in to him through the window
14. broken-down doll that they carried back and forth from one corner to another wrapped in colored cloth and with her face painted with soot and annatto, and once they were on the point of plucking out her eyes with the pruning shears as they had done with the frogs
15. The broken-down bed ceased to be the scene of wild activities and was changed into an intimate refuge
16. A broken-down yellow train that neither brought anyone in nor took anyone out and that scarcely paused at the deserted station was the only thing that was left of the long train to which Mr
17. Before he read Fernanda’s will, which was nothing but a detailed and tardy recapit-ulation of her misfortunes, the broken-down furniture and the weeds on the porch had indicated that he had fallen into a trap from which he would never escape, exiled forever from the diamond light and timeless air of the Roman spring
18. When the process was finished, over 1,000 weapons – from broken-down old, burnt-out M-1
19. He had been riding in rusty, broken-down transports for the past three years and never expected to ever ride in something that looked remotely new
20. How can learning be? For instance, if someone reads a book of repairing motors’ engines, is it right to him to work as an expert in a workshop for repairing broken-down engines? Of course, no it isn’t, because his study is still theoretical
21. We passed a field of feasting cows near a small, broken-down house, and then everything grew into dense forest and rock
22. Conversely, "a person without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken-down walls" (Proverbs:25:28He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls
23. He too warned me about the dangers of becoming a broken-down, bar-propping lush, and I agreed with him
24. She told me the father was a broken-down retired official, who has been sitting in a chair for the last three years with his legs paralysed
25. The first that he came upon was the pummelled Don Quixote, who lay stretched senseless on his back upon his broken-down bed, and, his hand falling on the beard as he felt about, he continued to cry, "Help for the Jurisdiction!" but perceiving that he whom he had laid hold of did not move or stir, he concluded that he was dead and that those in the room were his murderers, and with this suspicion he raised his voice still higher, calling out, "Shut the inn gate; see that no one goes out; they have killed a man here!" This cry startled them all, and each dropped the contest at the point at which the voice reached him
26. Some of these men were of the tramp or the drunken loafer class; some were old, broken-down workmen like himself, and others were labourers wearing corduroy or moleskin trousers with straps round their legs under their knees
27. “A new wall that is taller, and stronger, and longer than the broken-down old one
28. Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail’s pace through a deserted land
29. All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers sat their companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks
30. What is she paying you for? Why isn’t she in a sanitarium?’ He hadn’t seen her in a while and he couldn’t believe how broken-down she was
31. They had three lifts—one in an army truck, one in a vet's broken-down old Morris, and one in a trailer
32. Then the broken-down wreck by the side of the road was in real trouble unless someone stopped to offer help
33. Next the bull was allowed to tire himself out by tossing and killing a lot of poor, old, broken-down horses who couldn't defend themselves
34. Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand
35. While he was manœvring with the Guards, an indescribable mass of broken-down fugitives absolutely incapable of defence filed past him
36. For instance, one may look upon Racine as a broken-down, hobbledehoy, perfumed individual—one may even be unable to read him; and I too may think him the same, as well as, in some respects, a subject for ridicule
37. He sometimes noticed that the pretended invalid was not ill at all; he had come to take rest after his hard work, and to sleep on a mattress in a warm room, far preferable to the naked planks in a damp guard-house among a mass of pale, broken-down men, waiting for their trial
38. Everything seemed changed—the weather and the character of the forest; the sky was wrapped in clouds, the wind was rustling in the tree-tops, and all around nothing was visible but reeds and dying broken-down trees
39. He was the more willing to carry on a conversation because the broken-down, lame, emaciated, foaming shaft-horse could then walk, which these horses always preferred
40. All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks
41. But "Fire!" now does not mean shooting into the sand for amusement, it means firing on their broken-down, exploited fathers and brothers whom they see there in the crowd, with women and children shouting and waving their arms
42. While our allies, the Portuguese, were holding part of the line to the left of Festubert, a Portuguese officer rode up on the most emaciated and broken-down old "crock" I had set eyes on