outburst

Even the magnificent outburst at the beginning of this book, in which the unhappy woman compares her heart to a dying moon, is prefaced by vague complaint:

In the first moment of Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror-struck.

A fresh outburst of crying led her in the right direction, and showed her the children under a table in a corner of the room.

A fitting end, this, to a life of usefulness and crime - in a last outburst of an evil passion supremely satisfied on some wild night, perhaps, to the applauding clamour of wind and wave.

It seemed to him this evening as if the cruelty of his outburst to Rosamond had made an obligation for him, and he dreaded the obligation: he dreaded Lydgate's unsuspecting good-will: he dreaded his own distaste for his spoiled life, which would leave him in motiveless levity.

Don't be surprised at this genial outburst. All enthusiastic natures must explode occasionally; and my form of explosion is -- Words.

Now, usually I never interrupt a woman when she is crying, as it only encourages her to continue; but there was something so unexpected and mysterious about Rosalind's sudden outburst that it was impossible not to be sympathetic.

I will pay the subscription out of my own purse." Having asserted herself in those noble terms, she spoilt the effect of her own outburst of generosity by dropping to the sordid view of the subject in her next sentence.

He was ashamed of his own outburst. He looked eagerly for the ax.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow.

The Indian, after his first frenzied outburst of fear, now lay quiet, as though fearing to move, moaning in pain.

"Oh, enough, Robert!" she broke into his heated outburst. "You are not thinking of what you are saying.