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

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

Burst


Burst like sand this brave embankment of the breast. —Philip James Bailey	1
Bursting like a bean-pod. —R. D. Blackmore	2
Burst forth like the neighing of all Tattersall’s. —Thomas Carlyle	3
Light burst on me as if a window of my memory had been suddenly flung open on a street in the city. —Joseph Conrad	4
Burst, like a morn lighted bubble of dew. —Eliza Cook	5
Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof, burst. —Aubrey De Vere	6
Bursting like an overdone potato. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	7
Burst like bellowing Ætna. —John Dryden	8
Burst into sound, like thunder with a shower. —Francis Fawkes	9
Burst like rockets into one wide blaze. —Charles Harpur	10
Burst frae their bounds like fiends of hell. —James Hogg	11
Burst like surf. —Westland Marston	12
Burst, like an enfranchised dove. —Dinah Maria Mulock	13
Bursts like the lightning’s flash. —Friedrich von Schiller	14
Burst like morning on dream, or like heaven on death. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	15
Bursts like one sound from ten thousand streams Of a tempestuous sea. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	16
Burst like a pimple from the vicious tide of acid blood. —William Shenstone	17
The banners burst, Like buds of April breezes burst. —Bayard Taylor	18
Burst, like a thunderbolt. —Alfred Tennyson	19
Burst like Heavenly Hope. —Alfred Tennyson	20
Burst like new bottles. —Old Testament	21