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.

You might seek through all London to find such a piece of furniture as a spitting-box.

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.

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.

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

The batterie de toilette, we are told, was of silver, and included a spitting-dish, for its owner said 'he could not spit into clay.

Finding an empty road, and nothing there And fences, and the dusty roadside trees Some spitting kittens, maybe, in the grass.

He gave no heed to the orders of his platoon commander, the shouting of his sergeant, the stir that ran along the trench, the flat spitting reports of the rifles that began to crack rapidly in a swiftly increasing volume of fire.

A black tube affair an inch or two long projected from it and emitted, when lit, a jet of hissing, spitting sparks.

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.

A spider generally has eight simple eyes or it could have six eyes e.g. a spitting spider.

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.

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