bursting-point

The paupers said that they habitually gorged to the bursting-point on Sunday and were underfed the rest of the week.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

It was at this bursting-point of the prodigy that the two passing figures disappeared behind a headland on the shore.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

All dripping water hung as icicles; water froze in ewers and pitchers; milk froze in cans and jugs; and this though the great stoves in the dwelling-rooms were heated to bursting-point.

Maurice Guest 2003

Throughout the length of the body of the more remarkable of the two species of which I may speak on first-hand knowledge are four rows of bosses, closely spaced, which when the animal has dragged its slow length along to the utmost limit diminish into mere wrinkles, and disappear altogether when it is slung across a stick, and the fluid contents, being precipitated, congest and woefully weight each end, sometimes to the bursting-point.

My Tropic Isle 2003

It was at this bursting-point of the prodigy that the two passing figures disappeared behind a headland on the shore.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Tanus kept up the pressure until a carbuncle on Rasfer's back was stretched to bursting-point and the yellow pus erupted in a stinking stream and trickled down into the waistband of his kilt.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Alicia would go on, glancing slyly at Darrell to see if she was at bursting-point yet.

The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970

In another moment I'd have broken: I'd have been caught by Kramer screaming in his warehouse yard and beating the gates with my hands, but, just as the panic inside me swelled to bursting-point, a little door in the gate swung open like magic in front of me, and I was free.

Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967

On the fateful morning of his fortieth birthday, in a room full of butterflies, the zamindar Mirza Saeed Akhtar watched over his sleeping wife, and felt his heart fill up to the bursting-point with love.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Mr. Goon was standing there, looking so plump that the buttons on his tunic were stretched to bursting-point.

The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952