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	to get through first difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning; to introduce a subject.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in as by chance, so that he may be asked the question upon the other's speech: as Narcissus did, relating to Claudius the marriage of Messalina and Silius.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

About ten men mounted the sides of the Nautilus, armed with pickaxes to break the ice around the vessel, which was soon free.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context

One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess-- which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study--and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry--for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his--when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.

Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context

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