1. Thousands of slaves, naked and in pain, were breaking rocks and moving the rubble in long columns towards the burning embers of a huge pyre. 2. Commissioner Jones said that chain gangs will still be assigned to highway projects, but on alternating days they will break rocks. 3. He had the chain gangs breaking rocks. 4. In South Africa, Mandela languished in an island prison, breaking rocks on a diet of stale vegetables. 5. In weather that ranged from scorching hot to piercing cold, they were forced to break rocks in lime quarries. 6. Photographers cannot use a flash because it bothers his eyes, which were injured by dust during years of breaking rocks in prison. 7. Reyes coddles Agassi like a jailer overseeing a guy on a chain gang breaking rocks. 8. The better lackeys are also capable of supervising a squad of flunkies while they break rocks into gravel, but again, only for a day or so. 9. The forces that carve and break rock are on obvious display. 10. The two presidents first visited a quarry where Mandela broke rocks, hour after hour, as his assigned duty. |