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The mudflows making life miserable in McCloud, he said, have been bursting out of Konwakiton Glacier, an ice sheet just below Shasta’s summit that feeds runoff into Mud Creek.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2021

Kirstein’s Rolodex must have been bursting by graduation.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2019

You’d think his 13-year-old son would have been bursting with pride, but I was closer to mortified.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2018

Officials said molten rock, toxic gas and steam have been bursting through openings in the ground created by the volcano.

From Washington Times • May 6, 2018

He appears to be nearer, and his shells have been bursting on a hill and ridge in the distance, Colenso way.

From The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 by Jacson, Mainwaring George