They had been coughing and spitting intermittently, but now, suddenly, it seemed to me that it was as if someone had kicked the lid off the fireworks factory and dropped a lighted torch inside.

He is [Greek] (the slanderer); Satan, the spiteful adversary; the old snake or dragon, hissing out lies, and spitting forth venom of calumnious accusation; the accuser of the brethren, a murderous, envious, malicious calumniator; the father of lies; the grand defamer of God to man, of man to God, of one man to another.

As he pulled the lanyard, the little bronze cannon spit out fire viciously, and the long projectile, to which had been attached the end of the coiled line, sailed off on its errand of mercy.

Before he spoke, he spat contemptuously; then he drawled out: "Our boys say it's none o' their doggoned business; they won't interfere.

Casey spat disgustedly.

let us spit fearlessly and profusely.

If Victorine had been a four-legged cat, she would have spit at me, but fortunately the two-legged ones can't spit in drawing-rooms, so I escaped.

Cat! KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (spitting furiously) Khhh!...

Priam gave him one of Leek's sixpences for his feats of strength, and the boy spat generously on the coin, at the same time, by a strange skill, clinging to the cigarette with his lower lip.

Now, i'faith, ye little peevish harlotry, I'll one day make you spit your meat more handsomely.

Go close up to them, apply your eye to one of those lighted crevices, listen to the cannon roaring, the mitrailleuses horribly spitting, the musketry cracking, and then look into the interior of the closed rooms.

" "Cork up, old man," said the impudent raskle, "or ile spit on ye and drown you.

Now had the younger man been an experienced placer miner he might have noted with suspicion that whenever Bill panned he chewed tobaccoa new habit he had acquiredand not infrequently he spat into the tub of muddy water.

Macgregor spat lightly on his palms.

This matter spit upon the floor, wall, or elsewhere is apt to dry, become pulverized, and float in the air as dust.

He spat at a crack in the cottonwood floor meditatively, struck true, and seemed mildly pleased.

A person should speak and spit before the king only mildly.

But the common Virginian would admit no peril, though now and then some rough landward fellow would lay down his spade, spit moodily, and tell me a grim tale.

GOOD The crash of shattered glass mingled with the volley flung by the murderously spitting automatic of the stowaway.

The Medusa Bank fronts the entrance of Cambridge Gulf; it projects from the coast, near Cape Domett, to the North-West for seventeen miles, and terminates with a narrow spit, thirteen miles north from Lacrosse Island, in latitude 14 degrees 30 1/2 minutes.

He did not hear her barefooted approach, being absorbed in the movements of a wagtail that had come down to the pebbly spit for its bath; and Tilda started scolding forthwith.

She spat upon the ground, scornfully, and with a gesture of infinite loathing.

One poured out fire and smoke from his mouth; then mixed white, red, yellow, and blue powders together, swallowed them, and then immediately spit out each one separately and dry; some turned their eyes downwards, and when they again raised them the pupils appeared as if of gold; they then bowed the head forward, and on again raising it, the pupils of their eyes had their natural colour, and their teeth were gold.

It is enough to say that a jury with undershot jaws, who had proved by previous experience their indifference to capital punishment and to all human sympathy, were finally selected and that the witnesses were duly called, and testified to the usual facts, while the Pearl Button Kids and the rest, spitting surreptitiously beneath the benches, eagerly drank in every word.

The combatants quite tabooed spitting and scratching, and went to work with their teeth.