1.   Her eyes are closed, her mouth is partly open, breaking the surface of a stormy face.

2.   Her head broke the surface and she gratefully gulped in air.

3.   In all these ways the surface has been broken into fine particles.

4.   Its surface is broken with coots, paddling away, dipping their beaks and twitching the water down their throats.

5.   Rolling on to his back, he lay still as a corpse with only his face breaking the surface.

6.   Something was breaking the surface, something long though not as long as the Teeth.

7.   There are times when they almost entirely break surface and re-enter the water with a resounding slap of their tails.

8.   By dawn the weather had abated though the sea was still angry, its surface broken into dark ridges and furrows by a treacherously high wind.

9.   Under it, the blade tips of a massive propeller broke the surface in a hypnotic slow rhythm.

10.   She moved when he came in, her shoulders sliding up the curved enamel, her breasts breaking the surface.