"Outburst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the Spanish Government, the murdering of prisoners taken with arms in their hands, and, finally, the capture upon the high seas of a vessel sailing under the United States flag and bearing a United States registry have culminated in an outburst of indignation that has seemed for a time to threaten war. Pending negotiations between the United States and the Government of Spain on the subject of this capture, I have authorized the Secretary of the Navy to put our Navy on a war footing, to the extent, at least, ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Ulysses S. Grant • Ulysses S. Grant
... the colonel, smiling at the other's outburst. "It is true, but they're all alike, and I've seen a good many of them, ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
... outburst of hatred against England in Germany is responsible for a new form of greeting which has displaced the conventional formulas of salutation and farewell: "God punish England!" ("Gott strafe England!") is the form of address, to which the reply is: ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... After this outburst, which comforted him a little, the poor fellow began to walk backward and forward between the door and the window in a manner that showed that he still wanted more deceptions of the same sort in order to arrive at the perfection ...
— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... and bewildered, but always undimmed and unmoistened eyes. A sudden convulsion shook her whole frame, her blank expression broke like a shattered mirror, she threw her hands over her eyes and fell forward with her face to the back of her chair in an outburst of tears. ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
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