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Burst forth   /bərst fɔrθ/   Listen
Burst forth

verb
1.
Jump out from a hiding place and surprise (someone).  Synonyms: leap out, rush out, sally out.
2.
Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.  Synonyms: break loose, explode.
3.
Come into or as if into flower.  Synonym: effloresce.






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"Burst forth" Quotes from Famous Books



... I rejoiced; the many shining flowers came forth, blossomed, burst forth in honor ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton

... representation; and just as the actor pronounced these words in the first scene: "The friendship of a great man is a gift from the gods:"—the Czar arose, and held out his hand with much grace to the Emperor; and immediately acclamations, which the presence of the sovereigns could not restrain, burst forth from ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Memoirs of Napoleon • David Widger

... you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... beginning to be afraid that she would soon be sorry all the time. Every day the war within burst forth afresh. She reproached herself for her growing hatred of her life. Ought she not to be grateful that she had so much—that she was not one of a squalid quartette in a foul, vermin-infested back bedroom—infested instead of only occasionally visited—that ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... surprised to see him arrive suddenly, travel-stained and apparently in a great hurry; and still more was he surprised when, instead of speaking with reverence and respect, he let the words almost burst forth from his full heart, and told the Emperor that it would be better if he paid honour to the God from Whom he had received his sceptre, instead of murdering the faithful servants of ...
— Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light • Vera C. Barclay


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