Burst Quote by James Longstreet

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall…

— Helen Garner

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire…

— Philip Gibbs

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams,…

— Anonymous

“We could see the impact of an explosion long before the boom, so a hill out there on the horizon, maybe a mile or…

— Scott C. Johnson

The rain fell, the floods came,and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded…

— Anonymous

“The rain fell like dead bullets.”

— Scott Nicholson

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the…

— Charles Dickens

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones…

— Ernie Pyle

Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars.…

— Anonymous

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we…

— Harriet Tubman

Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire Mgo up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the…

— William Carlos Williams