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1  Bubbles of carbonic acid gas will rise to the surface and burst, and make rings two or three feet wide.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  A tremendous roar had burst from the throats of the crowd, which by this time had packed the hall to the very doors.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
3  And then suddenly, as in an explosion, the horrible truth burst over him, and he reeled and staggered back with a scream.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  And a wail of anguish burst from him, great sobs shook all his frame, and hot tears ran down his cheeks and fell upon her.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
5  She caught herself at the side of the bed, and then sank down, burying her face in her hands and bursting into frantic weeping.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
6  Once their water pipes froze and burst; and when, in their ignorance, they thawed them out, they had a terrifying flood in their house.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  And in the end he could bear it no more, but buried his face in his hands and burst into tears, to the alarm and amazement of his hosts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
8  The painting of cans being skilled piecework, and paying as much as two dollars a day, Marija burst in upon the family with the yell of a Comanche Indian, and fell to capering about the room so as to frighten the baby almost into convulsions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
9  So little Stanislovas went on, sobbing as he talked; and Jurgis stood, gripping the table tightly, saying not a word, but feeling that his head would burst; it was like having weights piled upon him, one after another, crushing the life out of him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
10  And when at last he had questioned until there was no more questioning to be done, and the time came for them to make up their minds, and either close the bargain or reject it, it was all that poor Teta Elzbieta could do to keep from bursting into tears.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
11  As she listened the pretty young lady's eyes filled with tears, and in the midst of it she burst into weeping and hid her face on Elzbieta's shoulder, quite regardless of the fact that the woman had on a dirty old wrapper and that the garret was full of fleas.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
12  Even worse than that was the fearful nervousness from which she suffered; she would have frightful headaches and fits of aimless weeping; and sometimes she would come home at night shuddering and moaning, and would fling herself down upon the bed and burst into tears.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14