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"Record-breaking" Quotes from Famous Books

... extinguisher to their fire by planting down two fine big fellows of his own Morto Bay way: we mean to add a couple of old naval six-inchers to this battery. During his stay we have very thoroughly threshed out our hopes and fears and went into the plan which Gouraud thinks offers chances of a record-breaking victory. If the character of the new Commanders and the spirit of their troops are of the calibre of those on his left flank at Helles he ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... do that, either, if I have my way," Prescott laughed. "We ought to do a few miles this afternoon, but not set out to do any record-breaking or back-breaking stunt." ...

— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock

... the head of our old firm, and the one celebrity I had ever seen or spoken to, a novelist and lecturer with record-breaking best sellers to his account. He once had some business dealings with our firm, and I attended to the details, thereby winning his cantankerous approval. He had very bad manners, of which he was totally unashamed, and very good morals, of which he was somewhat doubtful, ...

— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

... was covered in record-breaking time, and before the cuckoo clock struck seven the children and goats and dog all came galloping ...

— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... First National at almost record-breaking speed—but thoroughly, as he did everything. The running order of the bank was smooth and clean, and that had facilitated his work. There was but one other bank in the town. He received from the Government a fee of twenty-five dollars for each bank that ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry