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  • 'I think a few of mine have ruptured,' said Fred in a hollow voice.†   (source)
  • He accidentally hit a gas main that had ruptured during the earthquake.†   (source)
  • The predawn light had a flattering effect on the shabby, parochial playground; the early light bathed the ruts in the ruptured macadam and made the surface of the playground appear as smooth as the surface of a lake unruffled by any wind.†   (source)
  • A ruptured melon lolls in the drive like an amputated head.†   (source)
  • I cannot put on paper the idea that I want to scream, as loud as I can, until my throat ruptures.†   (source)
  • The undersides held a stickier yellow glow, and here and there a gleaming edge was picked out in nacreous brown, and the occasional filigree lacework that blossomed around a ruptured skin.†   (source)
  • A couple of the anchors, news jocks to the end, set the cameras to film their own deaths — the screams, the dissolving skins, the ruptured eyeballs and all.†   (source)
  • The rupture had really sent things flying, myself included.†   (source)
  • The rest of the food has been prepared, sitting in long CorningWare pans on the dining room table: dal coated with a thick skin that will rupture as soon as the first of it is served, a roasted cauliflower dish, eggplant, a korma of lamb.†   (source)
  • If it's near as fatted as her daughter, I'm like to rupture and die.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen," Eleanor said.†   (source)
  • By the position of the openings, I feel certain the beast ruptured something vital, a lung, maybe even her heart.†   (source)
  • Fire and pain ruptured her spine, flooding her veins.†   (source)
  • "If you did," he said, "I guess you could sit there with your ruptured appendix and negotiate."†   (source)
  • The claws would curl in below the ribs, rupturing the heart.†   (source)
  • When she walked away the first time, my damn heart ruptured and I swore I'd never let it happen again.†   (source)
  • Yes, which would rupture the gas cells, so we sometimes have to vent some.†   (source)
  • Whoever had lanced the old hospital ship had done it right, chopping and stabbing the hull with CPBs until pressure seals failed, self-seal units ruptured, damage-control remotes overloaded, and the interior bulkheads collapsed.†   (source)
  • In January they froze into disheartening poses; in August they ballooned and ruptured.†   (source)
  • But it was real, I know that much, it was a physical rupture-a cracking-leaking-popping feeling.†   (source)
  • Something had ruptured within her.†   (source)
  • That testimony her attorney hadn't been able to keep out of the trial (although he had nearly ruptured himself trying), and while Annie had never confessed to anything in so many words during the three days in August she had spent 'up there on the stand in Denver', he thought that she had really confessed to everything.†   (source)
  • A ruptured spleen.†   (source)
  • Pancho taught us soul, from the ruptured streets of Ciudad Juarez to every city ghetto he ended up in.†   (source)
  • An enormous chasm opened in the void …. as if space itself had ruptured at the seams.†   (source)
  • Her white egg sac ruptured prematurely, and a hundred baby spiders (too light to drown, too small to swim), stippled the smooth surface of the green water, before being swept out to sea.†   (source)
  • Barnoff recalls that while Cleveland was rupturing, with police in riot gear dragging away protesters, fires raging and cars being overturned, Nathaniel was often in his cocoon at the Settlement school.†   (source)
  • It was said that the hernia whistled like a lugubrious bird on stormy nights and twisted in unbearable pain when a buzzard feather was burned nearby, but no one complained about those discomforts because a large, well-carried rupture was, more than anything else, a display of masculine honor.†   (source)
  • He imagined it now—sealed off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and the thin rupture that was pouring a cool stream of clearest, pure, liquid, soothing water into ….†   (source)
  • She washed witch hazel over the rupture and taped me tightly with extra-long Band-Aids.†   (source)
  • Ruptured appendix.†   (source)
  • The exam was consistent with premature rupture of membranes,' the doctor said.†   (source)
  • Women live off gossip, and what's gossip but a swap of headaches, sour spit, arthritic bones, ruptured and mended flesh, indiscretions, storms of madness, calms after the storms?†   (source)
  • He appears to be holding himself rigid, as if any movement would rupture something inside him.†   (source)
  • Roran had intended to do exactly that up until the moment his world was ruptured by a quiet message from Baldor.†   (source)
  • Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person.†   (source)
  • It hit on the outside of his left eye, and his eye exploded, just ruptured and came out.†   (source)
  • He was rolling in agony on the deck, one eardrum ruptured, totally deafened.†   (source)
  • They saw a prostitute whose silicone breasts had leaked, ruptured and finally exploded one day, sending a polymer whiplash across the face of the man on top of her, and she was unemployed now, living in a room the size of a playpen.†   (source)
  • Thugs attacked Sunitha and those working with her; she says her right eardrum was ruptured, leaving her deaf in that ear, and one arm was broken.†   (source)
  • For one thing, if it ruptured on its own, it could spread infection throughout her body and cause her tremendous pain.†   (source)
  • Blood vessels ruptured, means he was alive when they strung him up.†   (source)
  • They'd pop up and then rupture, and it hurt so bad it would knock him down for a couple of days."†   (source)
  • He felt the uterus, turning it gently to see if there were any ruptures or necrotic areas.†   (source)
  • My spleen will rupture.†   (source)
  • Ruptured the AV node, which provides the heart's electrical powering.†   (source)
  • Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.†   (source)
  • She screamed so hard that Tomas had to turn his head away from her face, afraid that her voice so close to his ear would rupture his eardrum.†   (source)
  • "My God," Hema said, knowing that in nature pains don't cease till a baby is out, "it sounds like a uterine rupture."†   (source)
  • His aspirations to write novels had finally ruptured the line between fantasy and reality with these two empty eye sockets staring at him from the red brick.†   (source)
  • I ran away into the dark, laughing so hard I feared I might rupture myself.†   (source)
  • In case the covering of the suit is broken—the integrity of the surface is ruptured, as the protocol says.†   (source)
  • You don't want to risk rupturing those sutures.†   (source)
  • She had a ruptured spleen.†   (source)
  • Yet with Adams he remained on speaking terms—in part because he knew Adams to be too independent ever to be in league with Hamilton, and because he sincerely wished for no further rupture in their friendship.†   (source)
  • But there was still blood flowing from a hundred ruptured veins so he struggled out of his sodden parka, emptied its pockets and squeezed as much water and blood as he could from it.†   (source)
  • After that, I felt like my destiny was not my own, that men who had nothing to do with me had the power to rupture my dreams, to separate' me from my grandmother.†   (source)
  • There's the stink of seared insulation, melted rubber, and…roasted flesh, biological wastes from the ruptured lavatory holding tanks and from the bodies."†   (source)
  • They quickly left him behind, spinning like a top as the ruptured balloon plunged to earth.†   (source)
  • The telephone ruptured the night.†   (source)
  • I have discovered a method to protect the blood vessels of the brain from that fatal rupture which is known as a brain stroke.†   (source)
  • It is when the alien hand pollutes the source of will, when a stranger force of violence shatters the mind's calm resolution, this is when a man is made to commit the awful treachery of relief, commit in his thought the unspeakable blasphemy of seeing the hand of the gods in this alien rupture of his world.†   (source)
  • The dam bursts, everything inside ruptures, I'm dead.†   (source)
  • And in his famous "cornerstone" speech of March 21, 1861, Alexander Stephens maintained that the Republican threat to slavery was "the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution" of Confederate independence.†   (source)
  • Tom put on the wounded look, face of the ruptured deer.†   (source)
  • Rupture at Tube Station West, now partly controlled.†   (source)
  • He referred to Jews as "an elite people, sure of itself, domineering," and the rupture was complete.†   (source)
  • He broke two vertebrae in his back and ruptured his stomach.†   (source)
  • It might easily have resulted in a serious rupture in our relations.†   (source)
  • The witchery had almost ended the story according to its plan; Tayo had almost jammed the screwdriver into Emo's skull the way the witchery had wanted, savoring the yielding bone and membrane as the steel ruptured the brain.†   (source)
  • I realize now that it was the siren, or choir of sirens, and the drumming pandemonium that accompanied their shrieks, that ruptured the fragile membrane of Sophie's mood, which thanks in part to my own attentive ministrations had become peaceful, even luminous around the edges, if hardly sunny.†   (source)
  • He had died on the operating table in Johns Hopkins, of a ruptured appendix, at thirty-seven years of age.†   (source)
  • And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.†   (source)
  • Ruptured its lungs, or something," Tom began to recover.†   (source)
  • One of them came up under me once, damn near ruptured me.†   (source)
  • Remote from hospitals, people with ruptured appendixes died at home waiting for the doctor to make a house call.†   (source)
  • Burning nights and days in his sullen grove, Funereal as onyx, hind legs splayed, Sick and omnivorous, the ruptured goat Participates in the antics of the brain.†   (source)
  • The bubonic plague ruptured the fabric of the feudal order.
  • The incident ruptured the relationship beyond repair.
  • Whatever the reason, I was, in the end, the instrument of his family's rupture.†   (source)
  • With a casual flick of his hand, Percy caused the side of the tank to rupture.†   (source)
  • He has both a ruptured appendix and an abscess.†   (source)
  • His lower intestine was ruptured and hemorrhaged, the blood collected in his abdominal cavity.†   (source)
  • There was swelling and slight inflammation around each rupture in the skin.†   (source)
  • Sparks flowed from the slim elfin fingers, intuitively targeting bruises, breaks or ruptures.†   (source)
  • But he felt only tender, ruptured flesh.†   (source)
  • "Your son has a ruptured appendix," he said.†   (source)
  • With the water lines ruptured and the sewers bled dry, there was nothing to check its course.†   (source)
  • Kronos stomped his foot, and the floor ruptured around Ethan Nakamura.†   (source)
  • The cheese-monger laughed so hard that Tyrion feared he was about to rupture.†   (source)
  • A dome of water swelled and ruptured like a dry-ice bubble.†   (source)
  • My eardrums practically ruptured from the force of the blast.†   (source)
  • Dickie's face collapsed and the anger bled out of him like a ruptured artery.†   (source)
  • I sent the last of my strength coursing through his veins, repairing damage, closing ruptures.†   (source)
  • The spleen was ruptured and so this was removed.†   (source)
  • Just to see what's causing this, some ruptured pipe probably, out of curiosity.†   (source)
  • My eardrums practically ruptured from the force of the blast.†   (source)
  • It wasn't only Prudence's ruptured uterus that was responsible for her death.†   (source)
  • In the pressure fall, the rat ruptured, bursting open.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit's suspensory ligament was ruptured.†   (source)
  • The veterinarian said that if it was ruptured, the horse's career was over.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was ruptured; maybe it was only bruised.†   (source)
  • That is to say, none of their bones have been broken, none of their organs ruptured.†   (source)
  • What caused this abrupt rupture?†   (source)
  • The impact ruptured your spleen.†   (source)
  • The way a doctor feels when he looks at a patient, sort of mechanical, not seeing the real person, just a ruptured appendix or a clogged-up artery.†   (source)
  • One story said the king had been killed by a boar while hunting, another that he'd died eating a boar, stuffing himself so full that he'd ruptured at the table.†   (source)
  • It would eventually rupture.†   (source)
  • My parents took me to White Memorial Hospital in Boyle Heights where surgery had been scheduled to repair the rupture.†   (source)
  • He hobbles across the beach to the water's edge, washes his foot, feels the sting of salt: there must have been a boil, the thing must have ruptured overnight, the wound feels huge now.†   (source)
  • When Dr. Juvenal Urbino returned from Europe he was already well aware of the scientific fallacy in these beliefs, but they were so rooted in local superstition that many people opposed the mineral enrichment of the water in the cisterns for fear of destroying its ability to cause an honorable rupture.†   (source)
  • Watanabe beat POWs every day, fracturing their windpipes, rupturing their eardrums, shattering their teeth, tearing one man's ear half off, leaving men unconscious.†   (source)
  • Your spleen had ruptured, probably—and fortunately for you—a delayed rupture, because you had signs of early hemorrhage into your abdominal cavity My colleagues from the general surgery unit had to perform an emergency splenectomy.†   (source)
  • As the density subsided, the roll call of names limped through the ruptured streets, sometimes ending with an ash-filled embrace or a knelt-down howl of grief.†   (source)
  • Your spleen had ruptured, probably—and fortunately for you—a delayed rupture, because you had signs of early hemorrhage into your abdominal cavity My colleagues from the general surgery unit had to perform an emergency splenectomy.†   (source)
  • I'd guess the battery is ruptured.†   (source)
  • A call later informs us Gloria had ruptured her appendix and the poison had begun to invade her body.†   (source)
  • It turned out I had ruptured myself, the sac that held my bottom intestine had a slight rip and threatened to spill its contents, and my life along with it.†   (source)
  • Ruptured spleen.†   (source)
  • Here and there one edge of the ruptured skin rose over the other, revealing its fatty layers, and little obtrusions like miniature bunches of red grapes forced up from the fissure.†   (source)
  • What had seemed like the end of a stomach flu had more likely been the first sign of a ruptured appendix.†   (source)
  • His parents rejoice, thinking that Colton is well, when in fact this is a sign of the rupturing of his appendix.†   (source)
  • Colton's insides were so contaminated with the poison of the ruptured appendix that Dr. O'Holleran had decided it was best to leave his incision open so it could continue to drain.†   (source)
  • Une rupture …?†   (source)
  • It was more than a glen, it was a huge well dug out of prehistoric earth, a rupture dating from the Ice Age that had not healed.†   (source)
  • The body was still accelerating due to gravity at the end of the drop, but the head was restricted by the noose—which broke the neck and ruptured the spinal cord, rendering instant unconsciousness, and a quick death.†   (source)
  • I hoped I'd ruptured his eardrum.†   (source)
  • The doctor suspected that the tricuspid valve had ruptured, that her son needed valve replacement surgery.†   (source)
  • She knew how it would work, penetrating the cells with its own DNA and ultimately rupturing the cells.†   (source)
  • The first time I rode into a melee with a flaming sword, Kevan Lannister's horse reared and threw him and His Grace laughed so hard I thought he might rupture."†   (source)
  • He swung the mallet against the bronze, over and over, until his eardrums nearly ruptured from the deafening ring.†   (source)
  • Max feared his eardrums might rupture.†   (source)
  • He watched the sudden rupture of the storage tank, followed by flames that leapt outward and skyward; he traced the blackened smoke as it formed into sluggish, mushroomlike shapes.†   (source)
  • At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense, he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening, crashing waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid, eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors; and, above all, the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.†   (source)
  • The force of the collision ruptured the Konovalov's titanium pressure hull and crumpled the October's bow as if it were a beer can.†   (source)
  • Thomas had rolled up onto the bed after his kick and now stood by the ruptured pillow, facing the attacker in a familiar ready stance.†   (source)
  • Maybe mining executives who didn't have to get their hands dirty or their backs ruptured for their daily bread.†   (source)
  • That ruptured Prudence's uterus.†   (source)
  • Think of a virus like a tiny robot that hijacks its host cell and modifies its DNA, usually in a way that ends with the rupturing of that cell.†   (source)
  • The baby soon died inside the womb and the mother's death would follow shortly, most often due to a ruptured uterus or infection and septicemia.†   (source)
  • The explosion had also ruptured a trim tank, causing more negative buoyancy than they had at first allowed for.†   (source)
  • Before the smee could respond, Max dove back into the lake, stretching out for the ruptured balloon that was floating atop the icy waters like a lily pad.†   (source)
  • The force of the explosion had torn a hole twelve feet across, shredded the interior ballast tank baffles, and ruptured a half-dozen air flasks, but already much of its force had been dissipated.†   (source)
  • You've probably ruptured something.†   (source)
  • A ruptured goat with a thinking head, Aware that maidens fall betrayed not by My pagan code but out of their own dumb need As I fall headwords, raging thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • Then I went to volunteer, but it turned out that Bizcocho had ruptured me.†   (source)
  • That white boy musta ruptured himself swinging at me.†   (source)
  • Vomiting at the supper table one night, he ruptured a blood vessel.†   (source)
  • I helped the soldier with the rupture up on the seat with us.†   (source)
  • Because the captain doctor knew I had this rupture.†   (source)
  • Once only a board sprang on the landing; once in the middle of the night with a roar, with a rupture, as after centuries of quiescence, a rock rends itself from the mountain and hurtles crashing into the valley, one fold of the shawl loosened and swung to and fro.†   (source)
  • This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.†   (source)
  • High in the gray stone mountains, under a frowning peak, a little spring bubbled out of a rupture in the stone.†   (source)
  • 'For that matter,' says they, 'ye must keep from all natural excitement also, or otherwise the bullet will cause a rupture, and the rupture rising to a flux, and the flux to a conflammation, will occasion an absolute abruption in the vital functions at all.†   (source)
  • I got a rupture.†   (source)
  • But after a time Watson's young affections changed, and one day he described the rupture to Philip.†   (source)
  • We have lifted one example, quite at random, from among his infinite attempts to rupture reason.†   (source)
  • On the Monday following the day of the rupture he went down to the work-room.†   (source)
  • Do not let the old man experience unnecessary uneasiness at this rupture.†   (source)
  • But the story of the duel, confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society.†   (source)
  • Then there was a final, complete rupture.†   (source)
  • They seemed far away now, for his present attitude was more than a holiday, it was almost a rupture.†   (source)
  • I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.†   (source)
  • Your Majesty will not forget that I have done everything in my power to prevent a rupture.†   (source)
  • A final rupture took place and he was turned out of the house.†   (source)
  • "How can it be anything but a rupture?" she went on; "especially if all you say is true?"†   (source)
  • His very admiration for her attached the idea of force and weight to her rupture.†   (source)
  • It's the rupture, the defiance, the insisting upon being happy in my own way.†   (source)
  • And I really began to wonder if you had not been expecting the rupture.†   (source)
  • We thought he might rupture something.†   (source)
  • The certainty that she had heard of the rupture with the Dorsets made the prospect of the meeting more formidable; and how should Lily have repressed a quick sense of relief at the thought that, instead of undergoing the anticipated ordeal, she had only to enter gracefully on a long-assured inheritance?†   (source)
  • He regretted this rupture all the more because he had hoped, if he had met my uncle Adolphe again sometimes and had contrived to talk things over with him in strict confidence, to be able to get him to throw a light on certain rumours with regard to the life that Odette had led, in the old days, at Nice.†   (source)
  • On reaching the house I had never so much as looked for the boy; I had simply gone straight to my room to change what I was wearing and to take in, at a glance, much material testimony to Flora's rupture.†   (source)
  • But Paul insisted on everybody's accepting his friendship with the girl, and Mrs. Morel was too wise to have any open rupture.†   (source)
  • But the thought of a definite rupture had never come to him, and even now could not lodge itself in his mind.†   (source)
  • With this assertion of her dignity she bade them farewell; and after that there were lively doings in the Durbeyfield household for some time on the strength of Tess's bounty, her mother saying, and, indeed, believing, that the rupture which had arisen between the young husband and wife had adjusted itself under their strong feeling that they could not live apart from each other.†   (source)
  • The latter had behaved modestly, but with dignity, on this occasion of his first meeting with the Epanchins since the rupture.†   (source)
  • …of his life to the daily expectation of a meeting which, when it occurred, would bring him no happiness; and he asked himself whether he was not mistaken, whether the circumstances that had favoured their relations and had prevented a final rupture had not done a disservice to his career, whether the outcome to be desired was not that as to which he rejoiced that it happened only in dreams—his own departure; and he said to himself that people did not know when they were unhappy, that…†   (source)
  • When his attack was over, and the prince reflected on his symptoms, he used to say to himself: "These moments, short as they are, when I feel such extreme consciousness of myself, and consequently more of life than at other times, are due only to the disease—to the sudden rupture of normal conditions.†   (source)
  • There was no trace of resentment in her voice and nothing to indicate that there was a rupture between them.†   (source)
  • Philip gathered that Lawson's chief grievance was that the rupture had come in the middle of a portrait he was painting.†   (source)
  • …could even succeed in making her allow him to see her sometimes; and, counting over the list of his advantages: his social position—his fortune, from which she stood too often in need of assistance not to shrink from the prospect of a definite rupture (having even, so people said, an ulterior plan of getting him to marry her)—his friendship with M. de Charlus, which, it must be confessed, had never won him any very great favour from Odette, but which gave him the pleasant feeling that…†   (source)
  • Perhaps she did not realise, either, how sincere he still was, if not with her, at any rate with himself, on other occasions when, for the sake of their future relations, to shew Odette that he was capable of doing without her, that a rupture was still possible between them, he decided to wait some time before going to see her again.†   (source)
  • …other times—when Odette was on the point of going away for a holiday—it was after some trifling quarrel for which he had chosen the pretext, that he decided not to write to her and not to see her until her return, giving the appearance (and expecting the reward) of a serious rupture, which she would perhaps regard as final, to a separation, the greater part of which was inevitable, since she was going away, which, in fact, he was merely allowing to start a little sooner than it must.†   (source)
  • Still, no violent rupture took place.†   (source)
  • You have only to look at her to see that, right or wrong, and whether the rupture came from herself or from him, her poor little heart is grievously bruised.†   (source)
  • At that time it was the sudden volcanic rupture of nearly all relations between black and white, in work and government and family life.†   (source)
  • I didn't laugh—I am always thankful for that—but the strain ruptured every cartilage in me, and for weeks afterward I could hear my bones clack when I walked.†   (source)
  • The father of her child gone,—alas! such ruptures are irrevocable,— she found herself absolutely isolated, minus the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure.†   (source)
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