One was the complete breakage of the basis of their new desires-its scattering into fragments, never, whatever else might come to pass, to be pieced together.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Lord knows 'tisn' his way to be thoughtful, and when he tries it there's always a breakage.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Do you enjoy arranging the cotton-wool wadding so that there may be no chance of a nasty jar, to say nothing of a breakage?
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens