Some baggage was lowered, then the oars dipped together and a little spurt of foam appeared under the bow.

A sudden spurt of pity for him entered her heart; he seemed so beaten and bewildered and frantic and terrified; who, better than she, could sympathize with one in Gratton's predicament?

There were tremendous spurts and struggles, but patient determination was not to be baulked.

A cock pheasant flies in frantic haste across the road, beating the air with wide-stretched wings, and fast as he goes, puts on yet a faster spurt as the shot comes rattling up through the boughs of the oak beneath him.

A thirda fourtha fifth spurt of that fire from the black shadow, and Kazan himself felt a sudden swift passing of a red-hot thing along his shoulder, where the man's last bullet shaved off the hair and stung his flesh.

If you will examine the learning curve closely, you will note that after the initial spurt, there is a slowing up.

It was altogether owing to the unwisdom of military authorities at home, who seem to have fancied that they could transform, by a magical spurt of the pen, heathen savages into British soldiers.

With this accomplished and when the herd was stolidly compacted before his driving, the black skirted around the whole group and with a magnificent spurt of running placed himself in the lead.

If not successful, repeat in ten min" Jot made a rapid spurt and left his teaser behind.

Old man Werner, with a muttered oath, went to the open doorway and stood there, puffing savage little spurts of smoke streetward.

One after another the squad was sent at a sharp spurt to grapple the inanimate canvas-covered bag hanging inoffensively there, like a body from a gallows, between the uprights.

I don't want to be held back by the rest of you when I shall want to put on a slight spurt now and then.

A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the brief spurt which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of the season.

Up into the still, hot air jetted vicious spurts of flame.

The younger men prepared themselves for a run,one of those sudden, short, decisive spurts which come at the spur of the moment, and on which a man, if he is not quite awake to the demands of the moment, is very apt to be left behind.

You never know when an extra spurt may not be required to turn the scale in your favour.