He was now twenty, handsome and golden-haired, with a temper capable of great actions and sudden bursts of energy but indolent and unequal.
Her deep melancholy alternated with bursts of wild eloquence, with fantastic fables, with entreaties and warnings against sin, full of such pity and pathos that they melted, at times, the hardest hearts.
The spell is broken; and hiding her face in her hands, Grace burstsinto violent weeping.
I had, however, spent many years among the Rocky and Sierra Madre mountains, and had often had occasion to study the modus operandi of the cloud-bursts that are there of so frequent occurrence.
Each beat of thy pinion Bursts night, beckons day: once Truth's banner unfurled, Where 's Falsehood?
And all the while a heart was panting sick Behind that shaggy bulwark of thy breast-- Passion it was that made those breath-bursts thick I took for mirth, subsiding into rest.
A lithe snake thrids the hedge, makes throb no leaf: A heavy ox sets chest to brier and branch, Bursts somehow through, and leaves one hideous hole Behind him!
And then, though after-life to please me now Must have no likeness to the past, what hinders Reward from springing out of toil, as changed As bursts the flower from earth and root and stalk?
He mounts the staircase, makes for the main seat Of dreadful mystery which draws him there-- Bursts in upon a bedroom known too well-- There lies all left now of the mother once.
A very vigorous and descriptive chorus, as fast as can be sung, pictures the Fay careering along on the wings of the blast up to the northern plain, where at length a star "bursts in flash and flame.
Before the tragedy can be consummated, the Prince bursts open the door, with the aid of his followers, and rescues her.
It is difficult to find before it bursts its outer coat.
In Gastromycetes the hymenium is always concealed within a covering which bursts at maturity, as with the Lycoperdons or puff-balls.
At last the great gates are thrown wide open, and the vast crowd of worn-out, weary studentsbursts forth, to meet the equally vast crowd of eager, expectant friends.
Then, as bursts the water from the broken vase, as clash the arms upon the mailed horseman, so fell the plectrum once more upon the strings with a slash like the rent of silk.
As well might we set the cold bright morning dews, that rest on the stony crown of Vesuvius, against the burning lava that bursts from its crater, and expect them to quench the fire or reduce it to a moderate heat.
Ethel never knew how to deal with these occasional bursts of grief, but she said that she thought Dr.
His younger children had never seen, his elder had long since forgotten, his occasional bursts of temper, but he suffered keenly from their effects, especially as regarded some of his children.
The fines of a penny and of twopence, which were instituted at the first meeting, were found hopelessly incompetent to cope with the bursts of oblivious hilarity.
A rupture down its back comes next, and the moth bursts through its coating into the hollow of the cocoon, and if left to itself would soon eat its way through.
The driven waves split on the western point of Brecqhou and came rocketing along the ragged black rocks on either side in wild bursts of foam.
The decorous pretense of his observant calm could not make us forget the bursts of mirth and vigorous abandon which now and then revealed the flame of unstinted life in his heart.
At one time Una bursts out, in recognition of the unbroken peace and good will in the home, "It will certainly be my own fault if I am not pretty good when I grow up, for I have had both example and precept.
Everything bursts suddenly into vigorous life, after the long, death-like sleep of Nature; as little children burst into the romping gaieties of a new day, after the deep repose of a long and tranquil night.
But it was the old man's nature to give way to little bursts of passion on almost every occasion in which his feelings were at all excited.
Looking down he saw two red bursts of flame and a mass of smoke.
You could see their bursts over him and under him, but the fourth was a terror.
Sometimes the clouds of smoke would be almost continuous, but these shell-bursts were not confined to the front lines.
He is above the German lines and the fleecy bursts of shrapnel and the darker patches where high explosive shells are bursting beneath him, advertise alike his temerity and the indignation of the enemy.
It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were.
Out of them rose for me morning, noon, and night, bursts of wonderful melody, full of the voices of my brothers and sisters, full of the voices of the past.
For the first time this cry bursts up like a flame.
And, in the second place, the transitions are dramatic, those bursts of temperament from section to section, those precipitous falls and steep ascents which only at the end lead to a harmonious solution.
Then in the finale bursts forth the great cry of identity, in the one case the yearning to be all the crowd, in both that ecstatic gesture of the individual yearning for infinity.
In travelling over the coffee, it bursts and detaches the coriaceous or parchment-like skin which surrounds each hemispherical bean.
At first, a body of flame bursts forth every time that the lid is removed; but by degrees this ceases, and the mixture soon agglomerates, and then softens into a paste.
Then it bursts its cearments, and comes forth furnished with appropriate wings, antennae, and feet, for living in its new element, the atmosphere.
But when the sponge has the consistence of thin dough, it confines the gas, becomes thereby equably and progressively inflated to double its original volume; when no longer capable of containing the pent-up air, it bursts and subsides.
Two parts of diastase do not in the course of an hour, cause the globules of three parts of starch to burst, at a temperature approaching very nearly to that of the hot water which bursts them into a paste.
Full of this feeling, of the awe and veneration innate in man and co-existent with the eternal ages, hebursts out in the second surah: "God!
He lifts me to the golden doors; The flashes come and go; All heaven bursts her starry floors, And strews her lights below, And deepens on and up!
What roar of rampant tumult bursts in clangor on the coast?
Their repose has as much influence over other beings as their action, even as the thunder cloud, lying black and distant in the summer sky, is not less imposing than when it bursts and gives forth its quick lightnings.
Such thoughts fill patriot minds as the cannon-peal bursts upon the ear.
With a sudden gesture of utter misery Vera sinks down upon it, and bursts into a passion of tears.
A few moments of offended silence on the part of the elder lady, during which she tugs fiercely and savagely at the ragged sock in her hands--then she bursts forth again.
I think you have seen them before, papa," says the bride, demurely, whilst uncle Tom bursts into a loud and hearty guffaw of laughter.
The young man, supposing his father had reference to his peculiar religious notions, was silent, for it was a subject which could not be adverted to without great delicacy, and danger of vehement bursts of enthusiasm.
Felix had now fairly caught the other's meaning, and the two exploded in bursts of laughter.
When the first series of bursts announced the storm you could not descend a flight of steps to a cavern whose roof was impenetrable even by five-hundred-pound shells.
Dust was mixed with the black bursts of smoke rising from the conglomerate mass of buildings and streets thrown together by previous explosions.
The aerial influence on his psychology is enormous, for he can watch the planes as he lies in a shell-crater with his machine gun or stands guard in the trench; he has glimpses of passing wings overhead between the bursts of shells.
More than ever you rejoiced in every one of the bursts of stored lightning thick as fireflies in the blanket of smoke over the German trench, for every one meant a shower of bullets to keep down enemy machine guns.
That's our lot, there," he added, indicating a cluster of bursts over a nest of burrows farther up on the hillside.
You could see it as clearly in imagination as in reality, with its horizon under shell-bursts and the slope with its maze of burrows and its battered trenches.
All the shell-bursts seemed to be in a breadth of twenty or thirty yards.
A shell that bursts fifteen or twenty yards short means only the slightest fault in length of fuse, error of elevation, or fault in registry, back where the muzzles are pouring out their projectiles from the other side of the slope.
There were shell-bursts wherever you looked, with your attention drawn to Contalmaison as it would be to a gathering crowd in the thick of city traffic.
Every one by scattered practice shots had registered on the German first-line trench at the point where its shell-bursts would form its link in the chain of bursts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bursts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
