Just an occasional competitive inburst (definition: an outburst kept to oneself). ❋ Unknown (2009)
And yet, when finally she stopped, she merely stopped, without the painful, knifelike intakes of breath that usually follow a violent outburst-inburst. ❋ Kindbegger (2006)
The resulting inburst of people and associated industries filled every vacant space and continued the sprawl farther. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)
"Is that your final --" she was asking me with her deep, wise old eyes searching me, when she was interrupted by the banging open of my door and the inburst of young Charlotte, young James as ever at her heels, with Sue clinging to his hand. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
Again we have Mark's favourite 'straightway,' so frequent in the beginning of the Gospel, and occurring twice here, vividly painting both the sudden inburst of the crowd which Interrupted Christ's words and broke the holy silence of the garden, and Judas's swift kiss. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
The same moment the door opened, but I could see nothing for some time for the mighty inburst of a lovely light. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
I had always looked on the Moat as my refuge at the last; now it seemed the only desirable thing -- a lonely nook, in which to lie down and end the dream there begun -- either, as it now seemed, in an eternal sleep, or the inburst of a dreary light. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
It is not surprising that the records of such a marvel, grounded upon the testimony of men and women bewildered first with grief, and next all but distracted with the sudden inburst of a gladness too great for that equanimity which is indispensable to perfect observation, should not altogether correspond in the minutiae of detail. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Like the infinite inburst of water; or say rather, of inflammable, self-igniting fluid; for example, ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
She comforted her Mother, and faithfully nursed her Father to his last breath; nay she saved him and the house, with great presence of mind, on a sudden inburst of French soldiers. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Beck, who, _in propriâ personâ_ was giving one of her orderly and useful lessons -- this peace, I say, suffered a sudden fracture by the wild inburst of a paletôt. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)
He will understand what a believer the man born blind must have become, yea, how the mighty inburst of splendour might render him so capable of believing that nothing should be too grand and good for him to believe thereafter -- not even the doctrine hardest to commonplace humanity, though the most natural and reasonable to those who have beheld it -- that the God of the light is a faithful, loving, upright, honest, and self-denying being, yea utterly devoted to the uttermost good of those whom he has made. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
About three o’clock of the afternoon, the peace of the first classe — safely established, as it seemed, under the serene sway of Madame Beck, who, in propriâ personâ was giving one of her orderly and useful lessons — this peace, I say, suffered a sudden fracture by the wild inburst of a paletôt. ❋ Unknown (2003)
