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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
burst
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Examples
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Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of Death?
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At last bursteth the frog which hath inflated itself too long: then cometh out the wind.
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Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision
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Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Himself of so great glory for thy sake, but thou dost not count Him deserving even of a loaf; but thy dog is fed to fulness whilst Christ wastes with hunger; and thy servant bursteth with surfeiting whilst thy
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of Death?
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At last bursteth the frog which hath inflated itself too long: then cometh out the wind.
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The Osiris of the gods goeth as leader through the Tuat (underworld), he crasheth through mountains, he bursteth through rocks, he maketh glad (?) the heart of every _Khu_.
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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The _Sektet_ boat openeth for him the double doors and the _Mātet_ boat bursteth open [for him] the gates; he breatheth, and the god Shu (114) [cometh into being], and he createth the goddess Tefnut.
Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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