Bursting

Examples

• Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I was awful nigh bursting out a laughing though, when it made John stare! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I said; and Herbert came bursting in, with the airy freshness of six hundred miles of France upon him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And I recollect two bursting to the opposite side of the parlour, while she was hugging me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If this bursting heart, this writhing lip speak not, leave me to the fate I deserve, and which I shall meet undismayed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Oh Harry, Harry,' said the young lady, bursting into tears; 'I wish I could, and spare myself this pain. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The gates and dikes and banks came bursting at me through the mist, as if they cried as plainly as could be, A boy with somebody else's pork pie! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• While most of us are familiar with the bursting of water pipes on a cold night, few of us realize the influence which freezing water exerts on the character of the land around us. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Betsy Horrocks, quite daunted, flung herself down on her knees, bursting into tears. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A frangible plate D closes the end of barrel A, but blows out above a certain pressure to avoid bursting strain in the gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I think two witnesses would be more lawful,' said Mrs. Sanders, who, like the other friend, was bursting with curiosity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was very difficult to begin, and I could not help bursting into tears. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The woods were set on fire by the bursting shells, and the conflagration raged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He took out of his pocket a great thick pocket-book, bursting with papers, and tossed it on the table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And as she spoke she flung herself down on her knees, and bursting into tears, seized hold of Pitt's hand, which she kissed passionately. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Because,' said old Wardle, half-bursting with laughter, 'because they might turn on some of us, and say we had taken too much cold punch. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His wrists were bursting, there would be no satisfaction till his hands had closed on her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As if I was not already full to bursting! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• All proceeds, changes and dies, except the sense of misery in my bursting heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And so he died, his thin lips curled in the snarl of his hateful laugh, and a bullet from the revolver of his dead companion bursting in his heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• How full even to bursting was their sense of joy! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Throttle valves automatically closed upon the bursting of a pipe, or the breaking of machinery, are operated by electricity, automatically, or by hand at a distance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They, however, require increased power and longer time to ram down the ball in loading, and the risk of bursting the gun is increased if the ball be not rammed close upon the powder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Justinian settled the matter by bursting out laughing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Not a figure-head but had the menacing look of bursting forward to run them down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When father comes back,' cried the girl, bursting into tears again after a minute's silence, 'how will he ever find me if I go away! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The charge consisted of 385 pounds of powder, the shell weighed 1,660 pounds, having a bursting charge of powder of 22 pounds, and a velocity of 1,640 feet per second. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• O Damon, she said, bursting into tears, I--I can't tell you how unhappy I am! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Indeed when the troops in Fort Fisher heard the explosion they supposed it was the bursting of a boiler in one of the Yankee gunboats. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Edited by Emily