1799 examples of foaming in sentences

The foaming and rushing waves had gone down nearly as fast as they had arisen, and, in their stead, remained myriads of curling ridges along which the glittering moonbeams danced, rioting with mild impunity on the surface of the placid sheet.

It was high-noon when Melchior de Willading and his venerable friend led the way across the foaming Rhone, at the celebrated bridge of St Maurice.

And though the legend does not live, For legends lightly die, The peasant, as he sees the stream In winter rolling by, And foaming o'er its channel-bed Between him and the spot Won by the warriors of the sword, Still calls that deep and dangerous ford The Passage of the Scot.

A quiet happiness, as of old recollections, came into her eyes, as she watched the sparkling and foaming water "And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Did pass into her face.

her slender body was carried like a straw by the foaming water towards the Ganges and soon disappeared in a bend of the nullah.

One moment more, and at the palace gate The wearied rider on his foaming steed Stood, like a warrior coming with his spoils, The beast beside him, which, worn out, fell dead.

The latter are a variety possessing rather inferior charms, compared with the domestic species; but they have a pretty habit of flying away to Pico every night: it was pleasant to sit at sunset on the high cliffs at the end of the island and watch the little brown creatures, like fragments of the rock itself, whirled away over the foaming ocean.

Daybreak brought with it no abatement of the storm, but presented to my view a wide vista of white foaming surge as far as the eye could reach.

And she who climb'd the storm-swept steep, She who the foaming wave would dare, So oft love's vigil here to keep, Stranger, albeit thou think'st I dote, I know, I know she watches there!

Grapes from the spreading vine Crown the full measure; Fountains of foaming wine

The Foaming Flood XVI.

THE FOAMING FLOOD "What is next, Lan?" said Lou, as they sat dispirited by the fire that night.

Chained and double chained, frenzied, foaming, and impotent, what words can tell the state of the fallen Monarch?

I denied it, and told him I knew nothing about it; but I was so terribly frightened that he saw I was guilty, and told me so, foaming with rage; and then I confessed the truth.

Soon, however, all was again prepared and those foaming steeds, after having exerted their animal power to the utmost, have accomplished their task and come in for the last time.

When the water had risen within about twenty-five feet of the surface, it became stationary, and we returned to look down upon the foaming water, which occasionally emitted hot jets nearly to the mouth of the orifice.

Finally, the kitchen-firelight glistens on a splendid display of copper flagons, all of generous capacity, and one of them about as big as a half-barrel; the smaller vessels contain the customary allowance of ale, and the larger one is filled with that foaming liquor on four festive occasions of the year, and emptied amain by the jolly brotherhood.

Alkalies of any kind, such as soda, will be found good in water containing sulphate of lime, by converting it into a carbonate and thereby forming a soft scale, which is easily washed out; but these have their objections, for, when used to excess, they cause foaming.

His last efforts had swerved him about and now he headed up stream with the water foaming about his red, distended nostrils; but still through the whipping spray his great eyes were fixed on Perris.

" "Very well, friend; very well!" replied Mr. Tyrrel, foaming with rage.

Minstrel harps rang throughout the wide apartment, and at a board well covered with smoking viandshaunches of the red deer, bustards, cranes, quarters of mutton, pasties, the grinning heads of wild boars,and flanked with flagons of wine, and tankards of foaming ale, sat King Stephen, surrounded by the flower of the Norman nobles, whose voices had placed him on the English throne.

Strange, that mere words should chill my heart with fear This is no hall of doom, No impious Soldan's feast of old, Where o'er the madness of the foaming gold, A fleshless hand its woe on tainted walls enrolled.

"Then, as Ibrahim, foaming, shrieked curses and cried aloud to Allah and Mohammed his Prophet, he said: 'Nay, this is ingratitude.

One morning Owens of Company H, while quietly cooking at his fire, suddenly fell back and began kicking and foaming at the mouth.

Vast stalactites of ice extended continuously along the whole face of the dam, like a frozen waterfall, behind which the water percolated curiously down into the foaming abyss, at the bottom of the fall.

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