Meanings of broken against in anglès

Instead, the furious Russian assaults had broken against our solidly held lines.

On the right, its edge was jaggedly broken against a yawning hole.

The rest of us wouldn't have broken against the Alliance, no matter what.

He was broken against this green bank we are standing on.

I, like all connected with him, was broken against the rock of predestination.

The candy coating pops open and his kneecap crumbles like a jawbreaker broken against pavement.

Two divisions of German shock troops had broken against a regiment of American fighting men.

That's good, to not get broken against him.

Our power will be broken against theirs.

The next moment he lay on the edge of the ice with one leg broken against a fragment of rock.

Its skull had been broken against the roof, and it seemed unlikely that he could recover from such a shock.

A dozen frail lances were broken against his horny head, a half-dozen wretches were seized and terribly torn by those remorseless jaws.

Overgrown and askew, they lie broken against their gray neighbors-trappedin a prison of old sorrows guarded by stone walls and iron spikes.

Memory cascaded over Belinda, the inexorable line of her father's will, and the way Javier's had broken against it, sand castles dashed against glass.

Although fifty years have passed, and sigh after sigh has broken against it, the rock still stands like a colossal monument of bygone ages.

But for the strong arm of Hans I should more than once have had my head broken against the granite roof of our burning dungeon.