"Burst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hanging between the door and window had not been taken away. What had become of the inmate of this simple maiden's cell? A terrible apprehension crossed my mind. I thought of Marya in the hands of the robbers. My heart failed me; I burst into tears and murmured the name of my loved one. At this moment I heard a slight noise, and Polashka, very pale, came out from behind ...
— The Daughter of the Commandant • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
... I suffer so bitter a dread. You don't understand? You must know there were two; And that is why peace I shall nevermore find! The one was all love, so good and so true, The other was evil, faithless, unkind; The one to me came on a late summer day, When my heart burst in flower and bloom; The other led me in the mountain astray, Where all things are shrouded in gloom! 'Tis the evil one, you, that has come again; The other who loved me, so good and so kind, The one who will never be out of my mind,— Ah, him have ...
— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen
... he said to himself, "I have seen the man; but where and when?" That the look, so calm, so pitiful, so loving, had somewhere in a past time beamed upon him as that moment it was beaming upon Balthasar became an assurance. Faintly at first, at last a clear light, a burst of sunshine, the scene by the well at Nazareth what time the Roman guard was dragging him to the galleys returned, and all his being thrilled. Those hands had helped him when he was perishing. The face was one of the pictures he had carried in mind ever since. In the effusion of feeling excited, ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... are really horrid!" cried the girl, rising abruptly and leaving the table. When out of the room she burst ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
... for half an hour did the young man tell of the virtues and great deeds of his father, and the moment he had finished, a tremendous howl of grief burst from the whole assemblage, men, women, and children alike. When the wailing ceased they all returned ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
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