breakly

Definitions

Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Examples

“Our ash is not tough and hard like⟳ that, but has an open⟳ grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers.”

“Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.”

“"I never thought I 'd say⟳ what I 'm going to," she said at last⟳; "it seems indecent; but I can't have⟳ you sitting around this way, acting as if I was a piece of cracked chiny that you'd got to handle⟳ mighty gingerly or it would drop all to pieces. I ain't so breakly. [...]"”

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