Outburst

Examples

• I told her so, as she sat brooding after this outburst. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Caliphronas, with a sudden outburst of rage, tore the flower from his breast, flung it on the pavement, and walked out of the court without a word. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Then came the great outburst of activity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Fred also had his pride, and was not going to show that he knew what had called forth this outburst of Mary's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hence, after that outburst, his inward effort was entirely to excuse her, and to blame the hard circumstances which were partly his fault. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The island is quite safe, but if there are any chances of an outburst, we will get away in Crispin's yacht. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• To reveal the contents of my precious bag to such a person as this would have been simply to invite an outburst of profanity. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But you do not understand, said Caliphronas, rather crestfallen at this sudden outburst of anger. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• All the long restraint she had imposed on herself gave way in that first last outburst of tenderness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, those were grand days in Bolivia, he said, resuming his seat, after an outburst of stormy passion, as old memories awoke in his brain. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Respect this outburst of generous indignation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was a tremendous rush into the electric-railway field after 1883, and an outburst of inventive activity that has rarely, if ever, been equalled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then there was one in 1457, when the Venetians occupied the island; another in 1707; and I think the last outburst took place in 1866. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I am angry and naughty--not like Celia: I have a great outburst, and then all seems glorious again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• John Rokesmith stared at him in his outburst, as if with some faint idea that he had gone mad. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was off in one of those hysterical outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis is over and gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Edison at once suggested using the steam whistle of the locomotive, and by manipulating the valve conversed the short and long outbursts of shrill sound into the Morse code. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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