The current economic boiling-over had already been simmering on too high of a flame since the 1950s after World War II. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lois inflated her lungs and stuck out her considerable frontage, her hoity-toity level at boiling-over point. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)
And sprays bits of it over the simmering, but not yet boiling-over Mr. Pierce, as he lauds himself and his works, interrupting his flow of self-praise only to belch or break wind. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Why do military options still rise to the top of a boiling-over pot when considering competing priorities? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Rather, they are a boiling-over of dozens of local feuds and vendettas that Kremlin-picked rulers have been unable to control. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is not a time for rapid-fire, extemporaneous reactions to a boiling-over pot that has been slowly simmering unwatched and headed toward disaster for years. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They're really trying to *not think* about sex, and then they see images that make them think about it, which makes all this repressed stuff try to boil out, so naturally they blame the image-makers for the boiling-over state of their own feelings. ❋ Doctor Science (2006)
Rather, it is a collection where each song is imbued with the boiling-over of feeling in every direction at once. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In just the same solemn way young swallows stare at you over the side of their nest, when they have reached the boiling-over stage and can see the world. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The threatened boiling-over process was abruptly checked, as if a lid had been lifted. ❋ Louis Dodge (1911)
On it came -- passion, temper, wrongs, and nervousness, all boiling-over together. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Eight days after the burial of Lady Catheron, several events, occurred that wrought the seething excitement of Chesholm to boiling-over point -- events talked of for many an after year, by cottage fireside and manor hearth. ❋ May Agnes Fleming (1860)
The captain, who was always in a boiling-over condition, and never felt quite happy except when in the act of planning or carrying out some scheme for the increase of general happiness, soon discovered that Netta was discussing the details of a little treat which she meant to give to the boys and girls of a ❋ Unknown (1859)
"I could stop the big pot from boiling-over without taking it off the fire." ❋ Archibald Webb (1859)
'I said to that boiling-over old Christian,' Mr Pancks pursued, appearing greatly to relish this descriptive epithet, 'that I had got a little project on hand; a hopeful one; I told him a hopeful one; which wanted a certain small capital. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Frustration with the legislative logjam in the Senate has reached a boiling-over point, and ❋ [email protected] (2011)
On the one hand, there seems to be a country-wide level of resistance, a potential boiling-over, not seen in this country in decades. ❋ Unknown (2010)
