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.

Suppose that before I had looked at the glass, it had bursted, which it is liable to do any time.

But the soldiers bursted in and moved the bed from the corner.

While standing a few paces from each other, Lafayette came up, and remarked to the Col., 'If you spill my brother's blood, I will spill yours,' about which time Chamberlayne's pistol fired, and immediately Lafayette bursted a cap at him.

While standing a few paces from each other, Lafayette came up, and remarked to the Col., 'If you spill my brother's blood, I will spill yours,' about which time Chamberlayne's pistol fired, and immediately Lafayette bursted a cap at him.

he would hae bursted his sides wi' evendown merriment.

"These are contractions from sheded, bursted.

The former prefers creeped to crept, and freezed to froze; the latter, slitted to slit, wringed to wrung; and both consider, "I bended," "I bursted" and "I blowed," to be good modern English.

"From some stones have rivers bursted forth.

Burst, burst or bursted, bursting, burst or bursted.

Burst, burst or bursted, bursting, burst or bursted.

"It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'the bubble is almost bursted.

6. Write the irregular participles which are commonly preferred to the following regular ones: abided, bended, builded, bursted, catched, creeped, dealed, digged, dwelled, freezed, grinded, knitted, layed, meaned, payed, reaved, slided, speeded, splitted, stringed, sweeped, throwed, weaved, weeped, winded. EXERCISE VIII.ADVERBS, &c. 1.

"These are contractions from shedded, bursted.

The regular words, beseeched, blowed, bursted, digged, freezed, bereaved, hanged, meaned, sawed, showed, stringed, weeped, I admit for good English, though we find them all condemned by some critics.

My tattered skirt and my odd and bursted boots, laced with twine, were spattered with whitewash, for coolness my soiled cotton blouse hung loose, an exceedingly dilapidated sun-bonnet surmounted my head, and a bottle of castor-oil was in my hand.

SEE HAVENS, GEORGE R. MOORE, WILMA LEITER. Bursted bubbles, by Wilma Leiter.

SEE HAVENS, GEORGE R. MOORE, WILMA LEITER. Bursted bubbles, by Wilma Leiter.

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.