Bursts
[bə:sts]
Examples
- Is there a form of hysterics that bursts into words instead of tears? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At other times this future bursts suddenly, as if a rock had rent, and in it a grave had opened, whence issues the body of one that slept. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The other youth maintained the contest with such spirit as to call forth enthusiastic bursts of applause. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Carriston was like a child in his garden, and his bursts of delight at this or that particular rose tree would have made many a person smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But he did it with one of the bursts which have made his fame as a public speaker. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And Rosa bursts into tears. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A thrill of applause bursts through the house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If too much air is blown into a toy balloon, the balloon bursts because it cannot support the great pressure exerted by the compressed air within. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I should think a Syrian would go wild with ecstacy when such a picture bursts upon him for the first time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To any thing, every thingto time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sickness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He remembered her by fits and starts, even with bursts of tears, and at such times would confide to me the heaviest self-reproaches. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All their lives long, they are employed in showing strange things to foreigners and listening to their bursts of admiration. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yet when the night comes, Fire bursts out, father! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But THIS family scandal is of the sort that bursts up again when you least expect it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She bursts into tears, declaring herself the wretchedest, the most deceived, the worst-used, of women. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My soul bursts itself with ambition. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Edited by Everett