That a virago is sometimes termed a "spit-fire" we all know, but that is hardly reason enough to excuse the French for such a lapse of gallantry as calling a thunderous and fatal implement of war by a soft feminine name.

'Tis the dead spit o' mine.

I remember, that, in the midst of his joy, he startled me by some light mention of his having spit blood, after catching cold,a thing which had happened before in Ireland.

Too far, thought Heywood, in a sinking heart; but answered: "From the East, where the Fusang cocks spit orient pearls.

He exploded in a spit-roar that raised my hair.

King Richard the fire bet, Thomas to him the spit set; Fouk Doyley tempered the wood; Dear a-bought they that good;" for in came a Minstralle, or she-Minstrel, with offer of specimens of her art in return for a leg of the goose and a cup of the wine.

An illustrated vocabulary portrays, among other items, the dressing-board, the dressing-knife, the roasting-iron, the frying-pan, the spit-turner (in lieu of the old turn-broach), the andiron, the ladle, the slice, the skummer; and the assitabulum, or saucer, first presents itself.

that spit venom all round you like a toad, and leave the very ground upon which you crawl infected with your slime.

The Umpire turned suddenly and wanted to know: "Who was firin' spit balls at his back hair?" One "innins," the ball was rolled through, it struck the batter in the rite eye.

Den you spit whiskey on em an wrap em in red flannel an sew

Her skirt testified that skillets spit grease; but in it she somehow looked as trim as a trout fly.

Now and again the Bosch birds come over disguised as clouds and spit mouthfuls of red-hot tracer-bullets at it, and then the observers hop out.