Uncle Timothy could hear his distant splutter.

Here is an endless splutter, and a parcel of perplexed distinctions upon no occasion.

And when it strikes it does its work with such a venomous, exultant splutter, that there seems something animate, demoniac in it.

The furious factions splutter, Power's cheated claimants mutter, And foiled fire-eaters utter Most sanguinary threats.

He had a little splutter of applause for his magnificent throw when he came to the plate; but he either was dreaming of base-hits and did not hear it, or was too lazy to lift his cap, for he made no sign of recognition.

At last, after a particularly mad splutter, to which ANTHONY longs to make retort, the buzzer gives it up.

When the gun goes off there is a mighty splutter, a roar like that of a small cannon, and the slugs go hurtling through the bushes, carrying away twigs and leaves, and not unfrequently smashing up the game so that it is almost useless for the table.

A moist and futile splutter from the bottom of the minister's glass was his only reply.

Mike had informed Jellicoe of the details of his interview with Mr. Barley at the White Boar, and Jellicoe, after a momentary splutter of wrath against the practical joker, was now in a particular lighthearted mood.

Promptly he throttled down his engine into a slow splutter, and turned in his seat as the machine came to a standstill.

At almost the same moment I heard a sudden splutter of shots in the village street behind me and my driver screamed, "Hurry for your life, monsieur!

And when it strikes it does its work with such a venomous, exultant splutter, that there seems something animate, demoniac in it.