break one's neck
Example Sentences
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Instead, there were solemn pines and hemlocks, and as he entered deeper, great caverns appeared in the rocks and narrow gulleys, into which one might easily fall and break one's neck.
From The Magic Soap Bubble by Jones, E. I.
That is bad sport, that riding, especially when one mounts such a beast as that, which stumbles and throws one off so as to nearly break one's neck.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
To my mind the injunction sounded very like forbidding one to break one's neck.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
Denis shambled in the rear, vainly exhorting everyone to caution: the slope was steep, one might break one's neck.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
It should have a good prism eyepiece with an angle tube attached so it would not be necessary to break one's neck in reading high altitudes.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
