What is "bursts"

Usage examples of "bursts".

But as the supper went on, these rigid republicans began to expand, the discourse became less measured, there were even some bursts of laughter, owing to the wine.

The worthy man spent two hours with me, without saying a word on the subject of literature, but to please me he had no need to talk of books, for he was a disciple of Epicurus and Socrates, and the evening was spent in telling little stories, in bursts of laughter, and in accounts of the various kinds of pleasure obtainable at Geneva.

The advocate hurries to the bed of the two frightened ladies, thinking of relieving their anxiety, but, when he sees them buried in their broken-down bedstead, he bursts into a loud laugh.

The tearing sound of their long traversing bursts drowned out the crackle of musketry and their tracer flickered and flew in long white arcs out across the valley to bury itself in the dark moving blot of humanity.

The machine guns traversed expectantly, firing short bursts into the heaped carcasses, shattering already mutilated flesh, or tore clouds of dust and flying shale from the rounded lips of the deep water holes, from the cover of which a sporadic fire still popped and crackled.

A few survivors of the shimmering bursts of shrapnel staggered out into the open to be cut down swiftly by the waiting machine guns.

She lay alone in the small room that Lij Mikhael had ordered for her, and listened to the drums beating and the shouts of laughter and bursts of singing from the Galla encampment amongst the cosa flora trees.

An experienced gunner laid down short, spaced bursts of fire the enemy were green also, Castelani decided.

Then the sky was filled with the deadly cotton balls, and the continuous crack of the bursts sent the ponies wheeling and the riders crouching low on their withers or swinging out of the saddle to hang low under the bellies of their mounts.

He crouched over it, and fired short crisp bursts at the four black tanks that roared angrily towards them across the plain.

Wheel to wheel, the two elderly machines bounded across the flat land, and the rain began to crackle against the steel hulls in minute white bursts that blurred their outlines as the next Italian shell burst fifty feet ahead of them, forcing them to swerve to avoid the fuming crater.

Gnats mewed and wailed as bursts from automatic rifles blasted them from tree trunks.

Will snapped off two bursts at the first creature to reach his former shelter.

Anakin hit the fissure with a pair of laser bursts, and a plume of bodies and equipment tumbled out.