The thirteen cannon behind the struggling hydra of gray seem one vortexsulphurous, flaming, spitting, as from one vast mouth, scorching fire, huge mouthfuls of granite venom.

quoth Roger, spitting and drawing a cross in the dust with his bow-stave.

RICE was held in great esteem by the ancients: they considered it as a very beneficial food for the chest; therefore it was recommended in cases of consumption, and to persons subject to spitting of blood.

But it had one gun forward and one aft still spitting forth fury and defiance like a wild cat.

Crouched in the snow, spitting and snarling, his teeth bared and round eyes blazing and long claws aching to close in a death grip, Upweekis waited impatient as a fury for the rush.

But to drive on, the Waggoner, very evidently, had no mind; instead, flinging the reins upon the backs of his horses, he climbed down from his seat, and spitting on his hands, clenched them into fists and shook them up at the yawning Bellew, one after the other.

He began with complaints of his ill health and spirits, his hectic cough, and his increased malady of spitting blood; and then led to his story.

Nevertheless, I had no more doubt of killing him than a cook has of spitting a headless fowl.

We reached the Nore Lightship, and waving a courteous greeting to a patient-looking gentleman who was spitting over the side, commenced our long beat back in the direction of Southend.

I just lay where I was, gasping for breath, and spitting out a large mouthful of the Thames which I had unintentionally appropriated.

(the doctor shakes his head) CLAIRE: All I ask is to die in the gutter with everyone spitting on me.

Jay. Not too much of that nayther: some 2 dayes hence he will give you a choake peare will spoyle your spitting.

After blowing out two or three puffs of smoke, coughing, and spitting through a scupper, he slapped Ben-Zayb on the thigh and asked, "You've seen ducks?"

Those at the front strove madly to retreat from the fire-spitting guns in their very faces, and those in the rear pressed as madly forward to the attack.

The Jews, it is said, resisted the expansion of their own religion into Christianity; they were in the habit of spitting on the cross; they have held the name of Christ to be Anathema.

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

While we remained seated, they passed before us on their way out,one eating, one picking his teeth, one scraping his throat, one spitting on the floor.

The men will persist in spitting on the floor, when it would be quite as convenient to spit into the water.

The spitting was incessant, and attended with certain unmentionable circumstances which render it most disgusting and offensive.

At this stage of the proceedings, the spitting and smoke had become so offensive that I was compelled to retire; and I did so with no very high notions of the intelligence and respectability of the American democrats.

I was grieved to see the excess to which they carried the filthy habit of spitting.

The children were not slow in returning it; and, besides that, fought among themselves; so that I had not a moment's quiet in my corner, and was not unfrequently in danger of coming in for my share, for they amused themselves by spitting and throwing large blocks of wood at each other's heads.

My back I gave to smiters and my cheek to those who plucked the beard, My face I hid not from insult and spitting, For my Lord Jehovah is my helper; so that I am not confounded.

It is enough to say that a jury with undershot jaws, who had proved by previous experience their indifference to capital punishment and to all human sympathy, were finally selected and that the witnesses were duly called, and testified to the usual facts, while the Pearl Button Kids and the rest, spitting surreptitiously beneath the benches, eagerly drank in every word.

" With more true kindness Washington wrote to one of his underlings, "I was very glad to receive your letter of the 31st ultimo, because I was afraid, from the accounts given me of your spitting blood,... that you would hardly have been able to have written at all.