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His heart is set on our marriage—there will be great difficulty, I fear, in reconciling him to the breaking-off of the engagement.

From the first he had blamed himself for the breaking-off of her engagement with Derek.

This breaking-off in speech was something quite new in Felix.

But breaking-off this parley would mean that he had burnt his boats.

But try breaking-off with love when you want it most, when its fairest, most devilishly alive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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