23 collocations for spurts

The canteen was spurting water.

Notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalks were lined with onlookers, the Belgians opened on the fleeing Germans with their machine guns, which spurted lead as a garden hose spurts water.

She spurts forth her creatures out of nothing, and tells them not whence they come and whither they go.

It’s all right, sir,—all right,—only a cut across my cheek, sir,”—and another bullet smashed through the glass, spurting plaster dust from the wall.

The beetroot fields spurted up earth, and great holes were being dug by unseen ploughs.

They were all sitting on the hearth, warming their fingers, and when the apple-wood fire burned down to coals that now and again spurted short-lived flame, they set the can of peas and the can of baked beans among the embers.

Then, as I stared, out from the dark center, there spurted a sudden flare of extraordinary vivid fire.

and there I saw the meteor-stones leap spasmodically, in dusts and heaps, like geysers or spurting froths in a steamer's wake, a tremendous uproar, meantime, filling all the air.

What caused the recent shouting was only a few fool cowboys spurting their horses in short races.

Half a dozen sulphur matches spurted little jets of blue flame and discovered four men lying prone on the floor, most of them with the wind trampled from their bodies, but otherwise unhurt.

They make their oil by chewing seal blubber and spurting the liquid into a vessel.

I am the most unhappy dog in that way, sometimes spurt out the strangest thingsthe most mal-a-proposwithout meaning to give the least offence, upon my honoursheer absence of mindthings I would have given the world not to have said.

Then out of his dark corner he will attack these qualities with censure, mockery, ridicule and calumny, like the toad which spurts its poison from a hole.

From the bow spurted a white puff of smoke.

He spurted the new roadster in rank defiance of Newbern's lately enacted ordinance regulating the speed of motor vehicles.

While the conversation was going on, plash made one, plash made another, plash made a third, by spurting a certain brownish secretion on the floor!

A furlong from the finish he caught the rearmost of the mares and cut around them, the dust spurting sidewise.

For the choicest piece in urban gardens, where Catharine-wheels on festival nights spurt sidereal spray, and rockets shot into gold-riddled skies fall back in prismatic showers, is less sapphirine, smaragdine, cuprine CHANTECLER Zounds!

And that old wooden shoe, spurting straw, what a sight, what a beautiful sight!

"Give me your cap," she said, and into Merle's cap spurted a torrent of coins.

And like knives they buried themselves in Thor's wounded shoulder, and the blood spurted forth afresh.

The Prince's blood spurted upon the scarf, Dyeing it; and his quick, instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him: But he, from his exceeding manfulness And pure nobility of temperament, Wroth to be wroth at such a worm, refrain'd From ev'n a word, and so returning said: "I will avenge this insult, noble Queen, Done in your maiden's person to yourself:

The men at once began to haul on it, and the monster rose to the surface again near the end of the tunnel, struggling desperately in its death agony, and spurting great columns of water tinged with blood.

23 collocations for  spurts