Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happiness, and each smile brought back an answering smile that made me happier still. And while I gazed into those living depths of blue, they seemed to undergo a strange metamorphosis. Those two eyes grew into one wide cerulean expanse, the heavens of an unknown paradise, through which there burst the brightness of a sun more radiant far than day, the brightness of a glowing soul; and I was beginning to feel poetic, and had just taken out my stylograph for the purpose of penning a tender little sonnet on the cream-colored tops of my gaiters, when the conductor...
...just a little as if it sniffed the air for scents of strife and combat." Thus spoke my reflective, phrenological self. But my unphrenological, my natural self, exclaimed, "By the six consumptive sons of my goodie, this girl has a pretty face! Wonderfully pretty!" And my poetic heart burst forth into spontaneous verse, and sang low and softly to itself...
...guess - Here there was a universal burst of merriment...
...length the storm, which had been so long gathering, burst. The edict of the president and his wife went forth, commanding the two offenders to appear before them; and grimly they awaited the arrival...
...close of the lecture in Nat. Hist. 4 on Wednesday last, the entire class burst simultaneously into the heartiest applause, showing thereby their appreciation of Professor Shaler's uniform kindness and courtesy as a man, as well as his excellence as an instructor. In his temporary absence the College will sustain a great loss...