He was too angry to attempt to unravel the mystery, and he did not broach the subject to Tommy who evidently desired to avoid it.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Paul did not immediately broach the subject which now became uppermost in his mind, but following some desultory conversation, he said, I should think Devon would be delightful just now.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
She had let him understand so-rebuffed him-not once, but every time he had tried to broach the subject of his devotion;-once in the Geneseo arbor, and again on that morning when he had really crawled to her side because he could no longer live without seeing her.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith