God, I'm sorry, breaking down like that.
The only thing that kept her from breaking down was the fact that Jonathan and Destiny needed her.
Take your place with us on the Council. We can deal with Death without breaking down her front door and pissing her off.
These two cables did not have a very long life, that of 1865 breaking down in 1877 and that of 1866 in 1872, but by the later of these dates four other cables had been laid across the Atlantic, including one from Brest to Duxbury, Mass.
The protoplasm is in a condition of instability and is continually breaking down to a certain extent, giving rise to various substances of different degrees of complexity, some of which are again built up by it into its own substances, and others, more simple in composition, are given off.