63 Verbs to Use for the Word outbursts

Silence followed the outburst.

He expected an outburst of surprise and fury, but he was mistaken.

We find no such sublime outbursts of song as characterize the Elizabethan and Puritan ages.

" The brakie could hear the click of his companion's teeth at the period to this statement, as though he regretted his outburst.

Pericles, however, restrained these outbursts, and would not allow the people to meddle with foreign states, but used the power of Athens chiefly to preserve and guard her already existing empire, thinking it to be of paramount importance to oppose the Lacedaemonians, a task to which he bent all his energies, as is proved by many of his acts, especially in connection with the Sacred War.

From upstairs last night she had heard fragmentary outbursts from the "judge."

And then added, in a new, endearing accent, awaiting an outburst of some kind from Sarah: "Of course it's a secret, dear.

There might be fissures, and even some outflows of molten rock; but without imprisoned gases, and especially without water and water-vapour producing explosive outbursts, could any such amount of scoriae and ashes be produced as were necessary for the building up of the vast volcanic cones, craters, and craterlets we see upon the moon's surface.

And, as though to suit this dream-like inconsequence, the scene is laid in Thessaly, the natural home of witchcraftwhere, in fact, I was myself laid under a witch's incantation little more than ten years ago, and might have been transformed into heaven knows what, if a remembered passage from this same book of Apuleius had not caused an outburst of laughter that broke the spell only just in time.

The second quarter of the seventeenth century witnessed an outburst of song that owed its inspiration to Elizabethan lyrical verse.

Do not let me have to complain of your behaviour again!" Gracie's cheeks were crimson, her violet eyes blazing with resentment; and Avery, dreading an outburst, laid a gentle restraining hand upon her shoulder for an instant.

Dr. Letsom had prospered; one gleam of good fortune had brought with it a sudden outburst of sunshine.

I am not a purist; an error of diction is very pardonable if it does not err on the side of the commonplace; the commonplace, the natural, is constitutionally abhorrent to me; and I have never been able to read with any very thorough sense of pleasure even the opening lines of "Rolla," that splendid lyrical outburst.

In the light of such events where, on German soil, Germans murderously attacked their fellow-countrymen on such ridiculous pretexts, it requires little imagination to explain the outburst of brutality against Belgians who dared to defend hearth and home.

The expression of Estada's face promised an outburst of profanity, but, instead of giving it utterance, he lifted his cap in a sudden pretense at gallantry.

" And checking Miss Fanny's intended outburst at the oyster story, Mr. Ralph read on "You ask me, my dear Ashley, to give you some advice, and write down my good wishes, if I have any in your direction.

Divers incidents retarded for a whole year the outburst of this family plot, and of the war of which it was the precursor.

" "True again, sir!" said the leader, recognizing the force of the murmur which greeted this outburst.

" On reading these lines, one is tempted to say: Here is an open-hearted writer; one likes this outburst in regard to a man who was in some sense his brother-artist.

There was not a dry eye in the library when she met the old mammy's outburst of joy with the puzzled gaze of the child who does not understand.

"With something like a smile, General Washington remarked, 'He is right.'" Lear, too, mentions an outburst of temper when he heard of the defeat of St. Clair, and elsewhere records that in reading politics aloud to Washington "he appeared much affected, and spoke with some degree of asperity on the subject, which I endeavored to moderate, as I always did on such occasions."

Here and there occur illuminating outbursts of reflection in philosophic accent which reveal in startling style the working of Borrow's mind.

The one, more than any other single man, stimulated, though unwittingly, the French Revolution; the other opposed that mad outburst with equal eloquence, and caused in Europe a reaction from revolutionary principles.

He has said rash things, has been stirred to passionate outbursts and reckless phrases, but love to the people and sympathy with suffering lay at the root of his wildest words, and they count but little as against his faithful service.

And though the sermon ends in orthodox fashion, with an assurance that, in spite of the Shimeis by whom we are surrounded, it is in our power to "lay the foundation of our peace (where it ought to be) within our own hearts," yet the preacher can, in the midst of his earlier reflections, permit himself the quaintly pessimistic outburst: "O Shimei!

63 Verbs to Use for the Word  outbursts