That burst of delirium was the climax.

There have been times when you might listen at night by the hour together and hardly hear a rifle-shot, and when the burst of artillery fire was a thing to be commented on.

The burst of Alcatraz for the river and safety was a remarkable explosion of energy.

I am glad she wept so much, because no heart bursts, (be the occasion for the sorrow what it will,) which has that kindly relief.

An occasional burst of fervor in Dissenting pulpits on the subject of infant baptism was the only symptom of a zeal unsuited to sober times when men had done with change.

He admitted the fact without prejudice to a settled conviction that the sun-burst of prosperity was merely another brief period of bubble-blowing.

KARROO, the name of a barren tract of tableland in South Africa with a clay soil, which, however, bursts into grassy verdure and blossom after rain; the Great Karroo, which is 850 m. long and about 80 m. broad, is 3000 ft. above the sea-level, while the Little Karroo is 1000 ft. lower; large flocks of sheep are pastured on them, and the value of the land has immensely increased within late years.

A sudden burst of rifle-fire was the alarm clock which always promptly awakened them.

An unanimous burst of laughter was the reply.

An uproarious burst of laughter was the immediate result, and the singer, interrupted somewhere about his 18th verse, subsided into offended silence.

" A burst of scornful laughter was the answer.

For suddenness and thoroughgoing completeness the Gaston bubble-bursting was a record-breaker.

Their throbs and ripples and changes are our music and poetry, and their bursting is our endless repose.

As to the illustration which he gives, namely, that 'a glass vessel full of air, placed under a receiver and then exhausted by the air-pump, will burst into atoms,' we can only say, what every schoolboy knows, that the bursting would be inwards, unless, indeed, our meteorologist means that the external receiver was to be exhausted, and in that case he should so have expressed himself.