What is "breakstone"

Usage examples of "breakstone".

Captain Breakstone longed to go to sea, and his dream was to command a transport-he was an amateur boat enthusiast, and he had navigated a destroyer briefly in World War I-but he was trapped by his excellent civilian record as a lawyer.

Captain Breakstone had held thousands of such sheafs in his hairy hands during the past three years.

Captain Breakstone laced his fingers together and cracked his knuckles.

He judged that it must have been written by Breakstone and signed by the admiral.

An important start was to melt a cup of Breakstone butter in the Pyrex dish, making sure the butter was warm but not hot.

I told her about burnet, with which they treated cholera and the plague, and about saxifrage, or breakstone, which actually does break up kidney stones and gallstones.

Roger and Althea Breakstone lived in neighboring Bridgton, about fifteen miles away.

Breakstone, a thick-faced man with bristly hair and a large knobby nose, sat in his swivel chair with his back to his desk, staring out at the harbor, regarding with mingled yearn-ing and irritation an attack transport far below which swung slowly in the tide current to its anchor chain.