Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passing vessel ran into and burst the gas main across the Charles River Monday evening, causing the light to be very much dimmed, and necessitating the closing of many places of entertainment. Leavitt and Pierce were obliged to close at eight o'clock...
...that the tyranny of science drives poetry out of existence. But poetry is based on realism, and the poet should take the cold facts of science and humanize them. Human sentiment should be substituted for the critical verse now in vogue. The human mind has in this century again burst its bonds, as it did just before the Renaissance. It cannot be possible that the "almighty dollar" is to be the only issue from this wonderful new world. Positive thought must be substituted for negative, and it may be that a new poetic energy will rise from among...
...simple faith in their own power to do their duty; and the fractions, those who pursue one idea with such enthusiasm that they become bound up in it, forgetting that there are other aims and aspirations and duties in life beyond that one idea. The writer calls those who burst their bonds and try to fill a sphere for which they are not fitted, improper fractions, because of their tendency to raise the numerator of life at the expense of the denominator...
...stage business exits. A second scene shows us the interior of a puritan drawing-room, inhabited by cats. Enter Dorothy and Pricilla who sing a nursery hymn very effectively, accompanying it with a very gracefully danced step. Suddenly two reservation Indians in all the paraphernalia of their lucrative profession burst in upon them and carry them off. Next Harvard and Dame Daffodill appear and discover that fact, and the scene changes to where the maidens are waiting instant death tied to a rickety stake. The braves vanish for a moment, and their victims take the opportunity to call...
...books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have...