A promise of secrecy was of course verydutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for thecuriosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very directquestions on his return as required some ingenuity to evade, and he wasat the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing topublish his prosperous love.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) She burst into tears as she alluded to it, and for a few minutes couldnot speak another word.
Assoon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner's hope of Lydia's being soonmarried, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to itsexuberance.
And how much moreinteresting did the spectacle become, when, starting into full lifeand animation, as a simultaneous call for 'Pickwick' burst from hisfollowers, that illustrious man slowly mounted into the Windsor chair,on which he had been previously seated, and addressed the club himselfhad founded.
THE FIRST DAY'S JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENING'S ADVENTURES;WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCESThat punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begunto strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousandeight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst likeanother sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and lookedout upon the world beneath.
Like a gas-lamp in the street, with the windin the pipe, he had exhibited for a moment an unnatural brilliancy, thensank so low as to be scarcely discernible; after a short interval, hehad burst out again, to enlighten for a moment; then flickered with anuncertain, staggering sort of light, and then gone out altogether.
He had hardly uttered the word, whenthe whole half-dozen regiments levelled their muskets as if they hadbut one common object, and that object the Pickwickians, and burst forthwith the most awful and tremendous discharge that ever shook the earthto its centres, or an elderly gentleman off his.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Another game, with a similar result, was followed by a revoke from theunlucky Miller; on which the fat gentleman burst into a state of highpersonal excitement which lasted until the conclusion of the game, whenhe retired into a corner, and remained perfectly mute for one hourand twenty-seven minutes; at the end of which time he emerged from hisretirement, and offered Mr. Pickwick a pinch of snuff with the air ofa man who had made up his mind to a Christian forgiveness of injuriessustained.