494 examples of spout in sentences

TODD trusts PUNCHINELLO will espouse this movement; for if it does, itthe movement, no less than PUNCHINELLOwill go straight onward and upward; but not by the route known as the Spout.

Therefore he got Mr Spelman to find him a long small pine tree, which he first sawed in two, lengthways, and hollowed into two troughs; then, by laying the small end of one into the wide end of the other, he had a spout long enough to reach across the room, and go through the wall on both sides.

There was a white spout of water, and it was gone.

It often happens in these seas that a whitish cloud suddenly appears over-head, which lets down a long thin tongue or spout, quite to the surface of the water, which is then turned swiftly round as if by a whirlwind, and if a vessel happens to be in the way, she is immediately swallowed up in the vortex.

V. give security, give bail, give substantial bail; go bail; pawn, impawn^, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate^. guarantee, warrant, warrantee, assure; accept, indorse, underwrite, insure; cosign, countersign, sponsor, cosponsor. execute, stamp; sign, seal &c (evidence) 467. let, sett^; grant a lease, take a lease, hold a lease; hold in pledge; lend on security &c 787.

The Chancellorsville House, which had been set on fire by shell, was seen to spout flame from every window, and the adjoining woods had, in like manner, caught fire, and were heard roaring over the dead and wounded of both sides alike.

Think the world is full of sin, Soon go up the spout; Badness always movin' in, Goodness movin' out.

To hear a person spout Shakspeare on the stage is nothingthe charm is nearly worn outbut to hear any one spout Shakspeare (and that not in a sneaking under-tone, but at the top of his voice, and with the full breadth of his chest) from a Calvinistic pulpit, is new and wonderful.

To hear a person spout Shakspeare on the stage is nothingthe charm is nearly worn outbut to hear any one spout Shakspeare (and that not in a sneaking under-tone, but at the top of his voice, and with the full breadth of his chest) from a Calvinistic pulpit, is new and wonderful.

The liquor had been taken out of the boiler by the skipper, and thence was being conducted to the coolers by a long open spout.

By some means the spout became choaked, and the liquor began to run over.

The consequence was that the liquor poured over the sides of the spout in a torrent.

Nor would it be possible to invent a motive less in accordance with Greek taste than the conceit of Ammanati's fountain at Castello, where Hercules by squeezing the body of Antaeus makes the drinking water of a city spout from a giant's mouth.

See his blubbersat his gills What a world of drink he swills, From his trunk, as from a spout, Which next moment he pours out.

This goat-skin of the carrier has a long brass spout, and from this the water is poured into a brass cup, for any one who wishes to drink.

It resembles an eagle with expanded wings, and is finely chased: the head screws off at the middle of the neck for pouring in the oil; and the neck being hollow to the beak the latter serves as a spout, through which the consecrated oil is poured into [Illustration: ANOINTING SPOON.]

Everywhere is the voice of water, ever lulling, ever babbling, and taught by Art to run in many a quaint caprice,here to rush down marble steps slippery with sedgy green, there to spout up in silvery spray, and anon to spread into a cool, waveless lake, whose mirror reflects trees and flowers far down in some visionary underworld.

He had been dreaming aimlessly of a place he had seen not so long ago; a place where the stove was black and shining, with a fire crackling cheeringly inside and a teakettle with straight, unmarred spout and dependable handle singing placidly to itself and puffing steam with an air of lazy comfort, as if it were smoking a cigarette.

All at once Dr. Lombardo inserted the blade of the pick under the golden spout, pried hard, bent it upward.

He flung a passionate hand at the basket, in which, prone across the golden spout, the still body of Lombardo was lying.

The Master, still unmoved, merely smiled a peculiar smile as he commanded: "Major, have the stone and the golden spout carried to my cabin.

She plucks the rose of poetry from her breast and sets it in the ale-can's spout; clinks with the lid, sings about the clang of the hunting horn, about breeches and old shoes and all manner of stuff.

and then I heard a noise in the water-butt under the spout, the snapping of an old rafter, or something falling behind the wall.

Again and again the whirlwind of oratorical enthusiasm has roused and heaped up the threatening masses of the Free States, and again and again we have seen them collapse like a water-spout, into a crumbling heap of disintegrated bubbles, before the compact bullet of political audacity.

The air was filled with parallel lines, as in some pencil drawingsnot like ordinary rain, but as if the sky had changed into a vast watering-spout and was sending down a continuous flood from a myriad holes.

494 examples of  spout  in sentences