7917 examples of burst in sentences

Down it came, and there the ship stayed for the night, while the passengers crowded about a volunteer town-crier who read from the papers that had come aboard, and, in the strange quiet that descends on an anchored steamship, asked each other how true it was that the German military bubblea magazine article with that title had been much read on the way overhad burst.

Sitting comfortably at some cafe table, reading the papers with morning coffee, one saw the dawn coming up over the Oise and Aisne, heard the French "seventy-fives" and the heavy German siege-guns resume their roar; saw again, for the hundredth time, some hitherto unheard-of little man flinging away his life in one brief burst of glory.

Chapter IV The Fall Of Antwerp The storm which was to burst over Antwerp the following night was gathering fast when we arrived on Tuesday morning.

A rank smell of kerosene hung in the air; presently a petrol shell burst to the southward, lighting up the sky for an instant like the flare from a blast-furnace, and a few moments later there showed over the roofs the flames of the first fire.

Although we could hear the wail of shells flying across their wide parabola both into the town and out from the first ring of forts, few burst in our part of the city that night, and we walked up as far as the cathedral without seeing anything but black and silent streets.

Out of sight in front of us, there was an answering thud, and "Tzee-ee-ee-er-r-r-ong!"a German shell had gone over us and burst behind the Belgian fort.

Their artillery was hidden far over behind the horizon trees, and the British marines and naval-reserve men who manned these trenches could only wait there, rifle in hand, for an enemy that would not come, while a captive balloon a mile or two away to the eastward and an aeroplane sailing far overhead gave the ranges, and they waited for the shrapnel to burst.

The trenches were hasty affairs, narrow and shoulder-deep, very like trenches for gas or water pipes, and reasonably safe except when a shell burst directly overhead.

"That's where I was standing," said the young lieutenant in command, pointing with a dry smile to a spot not more than a yard from where the shell had burst.

" "And imagineit was not three metres from our doorstep that the shell burst.

Forthwith a burst of sobs and tears.

Shrapnel consists of a large number of bullets about half an inch in diameter packed together in a case, which carries also a charge of explosive timed to burst at the moment when it reaches its object.

Every wardrobe and receptacle had been burst open and the contents dragged out.

By the front-door, sticking in the wall, was a shell which had failed to burst.

The nuns led us upstairs to the wards where the shell had burst.

They lay just behind Waelhem, some six miles south of Antwerp, and into them the Germans poured from the other side of Malines a stream of 28-centimetre shells, with the result that the great reservoir burst.

But the occasion was a special one, for these feasts of the Hamadchas occur only twice a year, in spring and autumn, and as the ritual dances take place out of doors, instead of being performed inside the building of the confraternity, the feminine population seizes the opportunity to burst into flower on the housetops.

I burst in, and demanded you, but he couldn't remember where you had gone.

But if I burst out as a professional dancerWow!" "That's so.

From the silence of that chamber there went forth a voicefrom the darkness of that retreat there burst forth a light; feeble indeed at first, like the struggling beams of the morning, but destined like them to brighten into perfect day.

" Summer was nearly over when one day a water-spout burst in, the upper valley, which caused such a sudden and terrible flood, that the miller and his family had only time to save their lives by flight.

Here a shell had burst on the road, in the midst of a bicycle squadron, scattering men and machines to the four winds of Heaven.

The ground beneath rocked with the thundering of the distant cannon, and as one peal burst louder a flock of jet black crows mounted heavenward, mournfully cawing in the semi-twilight.

The postscript burst upon them all as a surprise, and was welcomed by no one with more vociferous joy than by the lady's nephew.

If one desires to be excited in this manner, one must go a little higher up to the older sluices, which deep and narrow have burst through the hard rock.

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