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A spokesman for D.C. Water said a 16-inch main ruptured nearby on 14th Street NE, affecting 50 homes and the school; no repair time was estimated.

Water main break halts electronic voting at Brookland elementary school Christopher Dean Hopkins 2010

The harshest message from environmentalists has been an early and anemic protest outside the White House calling the ruptured well "Obama's Crude Awakening."

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In this case the point of infection was walled in, as all such cases are, with exudates and whether the appendix was primarily affected or not doesn't matter; it was within this enclosure and found to be ruptured, which is common; but its rupture was of no consequence because the escaped contents were in the abscess cavity that finally emptied into the cecum, the natural outlet in all these cases if they are left to nature and not officiously fingered -- thumbed and punched to death.

Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

All in a split second, as I say-just time for me to stare uncomprehending for two heart-beats, and then let a great light of joy dawn in my eyes for an instant, gradually fading to a kind of ruptured awe as I took a hesitant step forward, dropped on one knee beside her, took her hand gently, and said in husky disbelief:

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

I frowned, gave my lip a gentle chew, and then looked her in the eye, speaking soft like a man striving valiantly to conceal his emotion - you know, a kind of ruptured Galahad.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I frowned, gave my lip a gentle chew, and then looked her in the eye, speaking soft like a man striving valiantly to conceal his emotion — you know, a kind of ruptured Galahad.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I frowned, gave my lip a gentle chew, and then looked her in the eye, speaking soft like a man striving valiantly to conceal his emotion - you know, a kind of ruptured Galahad.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

All in a split second, as I say-just time for me to stare uncomprehending for two heart-beats, and then let a great light of joy dawn in my eyes for an instant, gradually fading to a kind of ruptured awe as I took a hesitant step forward, dropped on one knee beside her, took her hand gently, and said in husky disbelief:

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

All in a split second, as I say-just time for me to stare uncomprehending for two heart-beats, and then let a great light of joy dawn in my eyes for an instant, gradually fading to a kind of ruptured awe as I took a hesitant step forward, dropped on one knee beside her, took her hand gently, and said in husky disbelief:

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Delores’s worried expression ruptured into pain, and she burst into tears.

Long Way Home Laura Caldwell 2010