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Sentences ending with burst

As the sun was wearing down to the western ridges the mischievous sorrel mare turned her pack on a sapling, and one of the precious bags burst. [9]
His head seemed to swell and fill with blood: on the top it throbbed till it was ready to burst. [11]
From time to time he glanced backward, as a wise general in retreat calculating his chances and the power and speed of pursuers, and the moment for the last desperate burst. [13]
The face of the Seigneur suddenly flushed, his mouth swelled, and then burst. [11]
Dada's heart beat so wildly that she thought it would burst. [10]
The gun rang out with a deafening metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke showing the spot where it burst. [2]
In one of our talks he said something about like this: "Flint is a kinsman of mine, and he pours out all his troubles to me--empties his breast from time to time, or I reckon it would burst. [5]
As the thought of it took possession of her, her heart seemed almost to burst. [11]
I tell your Nancy----" "For goodness sake, Si----" "Wait, Nancy, wait--let me finish--I've been secretly bailing and fuming with this grand inspiration for weeks, and I must talk or I'll burst! [5]
It seemed as if his chest and throat must burst. [11]

Short sentences using burst

Lilly Dallam burst out laughing. [9]
The count burst out laughing. [2]
Satan burst out laughing. [5]
Hippolyte burst out laughing. [2]
Gabord burst out laughing. [11]
Whereupon Honora burst into tears. [9]
He had burst a blood-vessel. [11]
It burst me. [11]

Sentences containing burst two or more times

Then the storm burst on Salem-- burst, but did not overwhelm. [11]

More example sentences with the word burst in them

To-day again, as yesterday, a storm burst over us. [10]
Then her tears would burst out afresh, she would utter imploring supplications to the gods for mercy, and a few minutes later, begin conjuring her mother to take her to the hanging-gardens, that they might hear Nitetis' defence of her own conduct. [10]
Some burst out with one thing, some another; the German nurse put up her hands and said, "Oh, Schade! [5]
The veteran Memnon, with his one arm, had kept watch on the temple-roof during that night's orgy, planning measures for repulsing the enemy's attack, till the storm had burst on him and his adherents with the "artillery of heaven. [10]
Other voices mingled with hers--lamenting, cursing, and entreating; for now the rainclouds burst, and through the window-openings poured a cold flood, chilling and wetting the drunken mob within. [10]
One day Dicky, with a sudden burst of generosity--for he had a button to his pocket--gave Mahommed Seti a handful of cigarettes. [11]
And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
My heart beats wildly, Gorgo; it is well that this breastplate holds it fast, for I feel as though it would burst with hope and thankfulness. [10]
At last Richambeau, who had watched the whole business from the deck of the Victoire, burst out laughing, and sent for Elie Mattingley. [11]
The smoking flax which had been a worry to my eyes burst into flame, and I lighted the taper at it which has since guided all my footsteps. [6]
The centrifugal principle which grows out of the antipathy of like to like is only the repetition in character of the arrangement we see expressed materially in certain seed-capsules, which burst and throw the seed to all points of the compass. [6]
It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
His beady eyes were those of serpents watching for the instant to strike, and his words burst over the head of Orlando's mother like shrapnel. [11]
The Sellers family were just starting to dinner when Washington burst upon them with his surprise. [5]
And as they went the earth seemed suddenly to blossom anew, the glory of the Scarlet Hills burst upon them, and they could hear bugles calling far off and see giant figures trooping along the hills, all scarlet too, with streaming hair. [11]
All the millions went down on their knees, and stared, and looked glad, and burst out into a joyful kind of murmurs. [5]
We fancied that we were going on, as an English writer on "Down-Easters" used to say, as "slick as ile," when this miniature tempest suddenly burst out in a revival of the language and methods used in the redoubtable old English periodicals forty years ago. [4]
What delight it was to burst from the shelter of the thicket and touch with our poles two, three, or four of the surprised enemies ere they thought of defence! [10]
The large room was full of light, and through the half-dozen windows burst upon her the enchanting scene of the Bay, Henderson sat at his table, which was covered with neatly arranged legal documents, but bowed over it, his head resting upon his arms. [4]
There was a waiting pause; then, at a signal, a triumphant peal of music burst forth, and Tom Canty, clothed in a long robe of cloth of gold, appeared at a door, and stepped upon the platform. [5]
In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. [5]
Suddenly a great volume of sound filled the corridor, and the band burst forth into what many supposed to be "The Watch on the Rhine. [9]
She thrust the volume into the desk, turned the key, and burst out crying with shame and vexation. [5]
Immediately a thousand voices burst forth to cheer him on. [10]
Cold, then hot, Venters burst into frenzied speed to reach his guns. [13]
He wagged it valiantly, too, but when the thunderstorm burst he paused and went to the window. [10]
Soon we came upon a row of open graves, cut in the solid rock--(for a while one of them served Socrates for a prison)--we passed around the shoulder of the hill, and the citadel, in all its ruined magnificence, burst upon us! [5]
Captain Bowling put up with this for a while, and then burst out with a new view of the matter. [5]
Old Hundred swelled up with a triumphant burst, and while it shook the rafters Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life. [5]
Jameson was away up on the frontier tugging at his leash, fretting to burst over the border. [5]
It was not until prayers were over and the solemn gathering seated at the breakfast table that Mr. Spence burst upon it like an aurora. [9]
Then the bands turned their instruments towards Cathy and burst in with that rollicking frenzy of a tune, "Oh, we'll all get blind drunk when Johnny comes marching home--yes, we'll all get blind drunk when Johnny comes marching home! [5]
Then as the truth burst upon him he shook his head in a troubled sort of way. [11]
Then the whole truth burst upon Carnac. [11]
As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
As she walked toward Coniston, the thought came to her that she was rid of the thing she had stirred up, perhaps forever, and the thrush burst into his song once more. [9]
But a dammed-up torrent of emotion at last burst its bounds, and the hour that saw his release from immediate action was one that confounded him in the reaction of his spirit. [13]
But it was too late, for the door of the antechamber had burst open and they could hear the clatter of weapons. [10]
The second one told me where to begin the talk about a strange and violent wind that used to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o'clock and try to blow the town away. [5]
And when you told me that he was, I burst into tears, and I asked you many questions about him. [11]
When he came to the point where Rudyard went from the house, leaving Stafford to deal with Fellowes, she burst again into laughter, mocking, wilful, painful. [11]
People allowed themselves to take strange liberties with Caesar in this town, Theocritus burst out; insolent jests passed from lip to lip. [10]
His heart seemed to strain and burst, and just as he felt the end was come, he heard something crash on the murderer's skull, and the great creature fell with a gurgling sound, and lay like a parcel of loose bones across his knees. [11]
It was hard to resist the impulse to burst out with exultation and reveal everything; but I did resist. [5]
It was enough to raise your hair to hear that variegated and enormous unanimous caterwaul burst out! [5]
Clutching her breast to keep herself from choking, Sonya, pale and trembling with fear and agitation, sat down in an armchair and burst into tears. [2]
Philip marched up to him, and burst out with, "You are a brute, an infernal brute, to treat a woman that way. [5]
Indeed, he tried to control himself, for some reason standing in awe of my appearance, and then he burst out into such loud haw-haws that the crew poked their heads above the cabin hatch. [9]
He is like to burst with animal spirits; he runs like a deer; he can nearly fly; and he throws himself into play with entire self-forgetfulness, and an energy that would overturn the world if his strength were proportioned to it. [4]
Whereas, upon a time, the holy abbot prayed, and for answer a great stream of clear water burst forth by miracle in a desert place. [5]
For the first time in years a low laugh burst from his lips. [11]
One hand was thrust deeper into its pocket, he saw a shudder run through her, and suddenly she burst into hysterical weeping, sinking into a chair. [9]
When we are thoughtless of our words, we do not reckon with that spark in little bosoms that may burst into flame and burn us. [9]
It seemed as though the flood-tide of hate had burst its dam and, unfettered, was demanding its victims. [10]
It seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army itself, rejoicing at the Emperors' approach, had naturally burst into music. [2]
At one of those lunches in the grand world she had seen a lady burst into tears suddenly at some one's reference to Senegal. [11]
The confirmation of this foreboding was not delayed, for in a tone whose repellent sternness startled him, she angrily burst forth: "What should trouble me? [10]
Then the whole thing burst upon her. [11]
Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it. [5]
In the moment there was a wild burst of joyous laughter, a pair of round young arms were flung about Conrad's neck and a sweet voice cried: "There, Conrad mine, thy kind words kill me--the farce shall go no further! [5]
By and by there was a burst of shouts and cheers outside and the prince with his train entered in fine dramatic style. [5]
Not one of them noticed anything that happened around them, but my heart used to grow light when everything about me budded, and sprouted, and burst into bloom. [10]
Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the forehead; the supplicant may cry for mercy with that soundless voice the soul utters when its appeal is to the Invisible. [14]
He burst into the rooms of the palace where David had residence, calling: "Oyez! [11]
She stared at the Prince in stupid amazement, which so amused her ruffianly son, that he burst into a roar of laughter. [5]
Once when resisting the pressure and the threats of war of a foreign diplomatist, he had, after a trying hour, written to Faith in a burst of passionate complaint, and his letter had ended with these words. [11]
The rest of the population were laying down their employments and getting ready to come, when a man burst through the assemblage and seized the new-comers by the hands in a frenzy of welcome, and exclaimed--indeed almost shouted: "Well who could have believed it! [5]
He always dominated the places easiest of assault, and flung down exceedingly troublesome big stones which smashed men and ladders both --then he would near burst himself with laughing over what he had done. [5]
The fires in the pitch-pans and the torches on the shore sometimes seemed on the point of being extinguished, at others burst with a doubly brilliant blaze through the smoke which obscured them. [10]
I was in the Pinta's shrouds with Columbus when America burst upon his vision. [5]
Admiration burst from the passengers, and one man cried out Captain Brent's age--it was thirty-two. [9]
They burst from the palm-trees and rushed down to the banks with cries of rage, murder, and death; for now they saw him fighting for his life. [11]
She looked at the money awhile with a steady rising resentment, then she burst out with: "Dad blame dat revival, I wisht it had 'a' be'n put off till tomorrow! [5]
Then she permitted the messenger to speak, and when the latter again described the events which had occurred in the city of Rameses, and then announced that the fugitives from Tanis would arrive in a few hours, loud shouts of joy burst from the throng. [10]
The boiler in the Kubisch cloth factory had burst, a part of the huge building near it was in flames, and a large portion of the walls had fallen. [10]
They hung to the horses's tails, clung to their manes and the stirrups, closed in on every aide in scorn of dangerous hoofs--and out of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! [5]
The curve of the great stone bridge had caught the sunrise, and through the magnificent arch burst a glorious stream of gold that shone with a long slant down into the center of Surprise Valley. [13]
They burst open the gates of the palace and were pressing in with cries of "Death to the Magi," when the seven princes of the Persians appeared in front of the raging crowd to resist their entrance. [10]
In the column the feeling grew that unless it could burst through the Boer lines at this point it was done for. [5]
It was not the fault of Mrs. Mavick that the season was so frigid, its glacial stateliness only now and then breaking out in an illuminating burst of festivity, like the lighting-up of a Montreal ice-palace. [4]
The invention of the electric telegraph seemed to burst upon the world simultaneously from many quarters--not perfect, perhaps, but the time for the idea had come--and happy was it for the man who entertained it. [4]
I burst open the door of the house, ran up the stairs, gripped the ruffian, and threw him through the window into the street. [11]
And after that the days flew so quickly that it seemed as if the woods had burst suddenly into white flower, and it was spring again. [9]
His nose smelled the damp of it, and suddenly the whole soul of him burst forth. [11]
She could bear the conversation no longer, she might burst into tears--such was the extraordinary effect he had produced on her. [9]
But at dawn the bugles and the drums burst through the dreamy hush of the morning, and it was turn out all! [5]
The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers. [6]
Before we reached the bottom of Caribou Pass, the water burst out from the rocks in a clear stream that was as cold as ice. [4]
Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets; the slow walk burst into a gallop, and then--well, it was wonderful to see! [5]
The hilarity at the association's expense burst all bounds, now. [5]
At four in the afternoon we arrived on the summit of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world was glorified with the setting sun, and the most stupendous panorama of mountain peaks yet encountered burst on our sight. [5]
At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out wringing her hands. [2]
Ian should see that she was not "just a little burst of eloquence," as he had called her, not just a strumpet, as he thought her; but a woman now, beyond eloquence, far distant from the poppy-fields of pleasure. [11]
Perhaps--O Iras, would that it might be so!--now that the gate is burst open, the brain and energy of the great Caesar will enter his living image. [10]
It was at that instant that my admiration for Tom McChesney burst bounds, and that I got some real inkling of what woodcraft might be. [9]
About the hour that I was reading it in the cars, Twichell was reading it at home and forthwith fell upon me with a burst of enthusiasm about it when I saw him. [5]
I doubted not that I could get him into a service, but when I spoke of such a thing he burst into tears, and demanded whether I meant to throw him off. [9]
Don't you see that he has burst off his lowest waistcoat-button with feeding,--hey Acquisitiveness, 8. [6]
Each new splendor that burst out of my visions of the future whirled me bodily over in bed or jerked me to a sitting posture just as if an electric battery had been applied to me. [5]
The trumpet said that a million once lost in Mexico was returned, with a small flock of other millions; for a mine, in which it was sunk, had burst forth with a stony stream of silver. [11]

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