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Next instant, I had burst into a little clear space, just in time to see something, livid white in color, disappear among the bushes on the opposite side.
After that one burst of flame, the light had shown, only as an encircling band of bright fire.
A wild shout burst from the men.
It seemed bursting with light.
If this beastly bottle of ginger-beer hasn't gone and burst in the middle of my box!"
A hale, robust, well-set man, now bursting through the crowd, and thrusting out his hand, abruptly asked the wise man to tell him, if he could, in what part of the country he lived.
Several soldiers were blown to pieces by the bursting of the shell, but Wellington seemed quite unmoved either by the terrible sight or his own danger.
"Johnnie," burst out the woman for the third time, "yo' Uncle Pros found his silver mine!
Suddenly the slope and the trees ceased, and a new glare burst on our eyes.
A cloud of spray burst over me, extinguishing my candle, and wetting me to the skin.
From the steady, comfortable purr which had undertoned all sounds in the tiny glen, the machine burst at once into a deep-toned roar.
The boys, save one, from pure astonishment, ceased but a ruffianly little Irish lad, more daring than any had yet been, threw a big hurtling clod, that struck old Poquelin between the shoulders and burst like a shell.
When it seemed that his lungs must burst for want of air, his head suddenly bobbed upon the surface.
As she fell, her veil, catching on the chair-back, was torn away; and, looking down at her, a great emotion burst within me, for I recognised the mysterious woman whose photograph d'Aurelle had carried in his watch-case.
For the bitterest thought that ever came to me is one which troubles my rest from time to time even now: Did I love her as she deserved; was I a staff for her to lean upon in her trouble; was I not, rather, a careless, unseeing boy, who recked nothing of the impending storm until it burst about him?
Those concerned, however, will probably never forget Diggory's bursting into the room as they sat finishing supper, and striking every one dumb with amazement by saying to Mr. Blake, "Please, sir, some fellows are stealing our fireworks, and I've locked them up in the shed."
We could see in the distance great masses of flame, earth and brick in great clouds of smoke, all ascending together as enormous shells screamed over our heads and burst among the German entrenchments and the houses of the village.
With the sweat of terrible nausea bursting from every pore of his body he pulled the bales back.
We didn't talk of anything but fights at Gazathe surprise at Nazareth, when the German General Staff fled up the road on foot in its pyjamasthe three-day scrap at Nebi Samwil, when Australians and Turks took and retook the same hill half a dozen times, and parched enemies took turns drinking from one flask while the shells of both sides burst above them.
Have you any idea how much money was spent over that soap bubble, which only burst after many hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds went in lawyers' and counsels' fees?
Stuart was now in high spirits, and indulged in hearty laughter, although the enemy's shells were bursting around him.
The other portion rises to the surface of the stock, and is that which has escaped from the cells which were not whole, or which have burst by boiling. 99.
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.
Hollis Rheid thought the sunset had burst across it.
It comes upon one with a flame-burst as of revelation; little hard red buds on leafless twigs, swelling unnoticeably, then one, two, or three strong suns, and from tip to tip one soft fiery glow, whispering with bees as a singing flame.