Word: burstingly
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Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
...hands of the rebels. Attempts at a talkie were interrupted by continual catcalls, but the pictures were taken and Boston and New York newspapers carried glowing descriptions of the uprising. A rainy and cold day chilled the enthusiasm of the rebels the following day, but warm weather soon burst forth once more and the rebel forces again gained headway. As a matter of fact they gained headway to such an extent that in all probability "shorts" will be worn by Dartmouth men every spring from now until the time when some wise fool comes to the front with another revolutionizing...
...dropping of Mr. Thomas meant the picking up of someone else. This someone's feathery little black moustache fairly quivered with excitement. When his election was announced the Conference burst into cheers and loud guffaws for Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley...
...pulses, partly exposed-like a red brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams trickling down. His skin hangs in ribbons; it is scorched and smells of burning. . . . Thus they lie, rows of them, on hay, on mattresses-ravaged entrails, burst bladders, shattered lungs, lacerated throats, iron-studded skulls-the irretrievable ones. . . . Let it not be thought that these are just isolated horrors, sensational but only occasional instances of pain and suffering, and not essentially significant. These examples represent but a shabby trickle. Taken in its entirety all was far worse...
...half years ago Parliament, hoping that England would rule the winds as she ruled the waves, heard a Cassandra hoot: "The R-33 flew 800 hours and burst. The R-34, which flew across the Atlantic, afterward burst. The R-35 burst when inflated. The R-36 flew 397 hours and burst. The R-37 was never completed. The R-38 flew seventy hours and burst over Hull in August 1921, with a heavy loss of life. The R39 was unfinished. The R-40 flew seventy-three hours and burst." Those airships had cost England $12,000,000, had flown...