Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Burst

Burst like sand this brave embankment of the breast.
—Philip James Bailey

Bursting like a bean-pod.
—R. D. Blackmore

Burst forth like the neighing of all Tattersall’s.
—Thomas Carlyle

Light burst on me as if a window of my memory had been suddenly flung open on a street in the city.
—Joseph Conrad

Burst, like a morn lighted bubble of dew.
—Eliza Cook

Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof, burst.
—Aubrey De Vere

Bursting like an overdone potato.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Burst like bellowing Ætna.
—John Dryden

Burst into sound, like thunder with a shower.
—Francis Fawkes

Burst like rockets into one wide blaze.
—Charles Harpur

Burst frae their bounds like fiends of hell.
—James Hogg

Burst like surf.
—Westland Marston

Burst, like an enfranchised dove.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Bursts like the lightning’s flash.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Burst like morning on dream, or like heaven on death.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bursts like one sound from ten thousand streams
Of a tempestuous sea.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Burst like a pimple from the vicious tide of acid blood.
—William Shenstone

The banners burst,
Like buds of April breezes burst.
—Bayard Taylor

Burst, like a thunderbolt.
—Alfred Tennyson

Burst like Heavenly Hope.
—Alfred Tennyson

Burst like new bottles.
—Old Testament