" The constable's little eyes twinkled as he heard Throgmartin roaring with laughter and sputtering appreciative oaths.

A moment later he was on his knees, and the flame of the sulphur match sputtered a blue light into the dead face of Quade, staring upward to the stars.

" "Good-for-nothing fiddlesticks!" sputtered the aunt.

He reeled back against the wall, sputtering the blood from his split mouth.

He is, without exception, the wildest animal I ever saw,a fiery, sputtering little bolt of life, luxuriating in quick oxygen and the woods' best juices.

" "IIouch!" sputtered the small boy; "I ain't your little boy.

I!" sputtered the colonel.

" Down went Wattie's head into the burn again, and this time he was raised with his mouth sputtering out the contents it had received.

20 Teased with their cries, her choler grew, And thus she sputtered: 'Hence, ye crew.

And Keith sputtered out the details.

" "I am, am I?" sputtered the fat editor angrily.

" "The ded-devil you have!" sputtered Hildreth, chewing savagely on the gift cigar.

' Charles stared for a moment, then sputtered a laugh.

First, I would advise him, if it be not too late in his life, to endeavour a little at mending his style, which is mighty defective in the circumstances of grammar, propriety, politeness, and smoothness; I fancied at first, it might be owing to the prevalence of his passion, as people sputter out nonsense for haste when they are in a rage.

They were a precious set when I got to them, but by prudence and presents I got along with them, and, having began to sputter a little Sioux, I took courage, left my canoe and men there, and took a guide and interpreter and pushed on to Lac Traverse, and from thence to Coteau de Prairie, the head waters of the St. Peter's, and to within four days' march of the Mandan Village, Here I wheeled about back, afraid of winter.

Nor out of negligence and inadvertency should we sputter out reproachful speech; shooting ill words at rovers, or not regarding who stands in our way.

Gregororius said she fairly "sputtered spirituality."

Those familiar with the article know how bitter is the mixture of raw meal, hops, and yeast, and so will not wonder that presently a look of horror came over the Indians' faces and that then they sputtered the unsavory stuff out all over the newly scrubbed floor.

'They know just as much as soldiers, and as to your old button, I b'lieve you just picked up the old brass thing from the gutter!' 'If you weren't a girl, I'd fight you!' sputtered Teddy now, with rising wrath.

"What are you doing there?" "All right, boss," sputtered the tramp.

" "Towed to sea by a sharkcaught in a squallalmost run down by a linerand so hungry we can't talk now," sputtered out Tubby comprehensively.

It was with an undoubted sense of solid comfort that we lay in our cosy beds under a wooden roof, whereon the fat rain-drops sputtered, while the thunder still crackled and banged in the distance!

After five o'clock she started home alone along the heavily shaded paths of the campus, as dim as caves in the interval before the big, winking sputtering arc-lights were flashed on.

Lefty Joe sputtered the words.

He sputtered wrathfully again: "Silly ass!