Had to spit on my quarter-deck, did you!" Rumble from the mate.

But I bet Si didn't take any more trouble with you than to have some colours in his mouth, to spit in the shovel or the pan, when you wasn't lookin'just enough to drive you crazy, and get you to boost him into a Recordership.

Thou art a fool, a dog, a fatuous ass, a slave, a nincompoop, a cowardly boy, and as suchmark me again!now do I spit at thee!" Hereupon Beltane, having finished the archangel's wing, laid by his brush and, with thoughtful mien, arose, and being upon his feet, turned him, swift and sudden, and caught the stranger in a fierce and cunning wrestling grip, and forthwith threw him upon his back.

SPITTING OF BLOOD, or hemorrhage from the lungs, is generally known from blood from the stomach by its being of a brighter colour, and in less quantities than that, which is always grumous and mixed with the half-digested food.

The Sergeant spat on the road; they resumed their way, pursuing the road across the heath.

" "I don't want money," he answered; "I want you to spit into my mouth a benediction.

The lawless bands spat at me, and every European passing by them, screaming with threatening gestures, "God curse you! Infidels."

They threw filth at our heads and spat in our faces.

There was a great outcry in Europe when the broadsword was superseded by the rapier, and a tall man of his hands could be spitted like a cat or a rabbit by any dexterous little fellow with a trained wrist.

Take a beast kidney with a little fat on, and stuff it all around, season it with a little pepper and salt, wrap it in a kell, and put it upon the spit with a little water in the dripping-pan; what drops from your kidney thicken with a lump of butter and flour for your sauce.

While they smoked and spat into or at the stove, and told trail yarns, the chief magistrate arranged papers, conferred with the clerk and another man, wrinkled deeply his leathery forehead, consulted his Waterbury, and shot tobacco-juice under the table.

"And you couldn't take six seconds off to spit over the side!

On one side lay a huge pile of boneshuman bones; and on the other numberless spits for roasting!

She had kissed her mother, picked up her bundle and got as far as the door, when there came a spat of bare feet meeting the floor, a pattering rush, and Deanie's short arms went around her knees, almost tripping her up.

When a peasant strays into an enchanted hovel, and is made to turn a corpse all night on a spit before the fire, we do not feel anxious; we know he will wake in the midst of a green field, the dew on his old coat.

This disadvantage was remedied by passing spits through it, and placing it at a suitable height above the burning fuel.

He raised his own weapon, half-turned in the saddle, dropped the muzzle of the gun forward until it pointed at the flashes spitting from the officer's revolver.

She even marked how the living man spat after the dead.

"Got a bit on?" "Well, no; I haven't exactly got anything on," said Mr. Clarkson, uneasily; "but may I ask what cable you mean?" "Don't be silly," said the cabman, and spat between his feet.

" The old man bent and spat over the wheel, preparatory to speaking, but his daughter took the words from his mouth.

He had never been able to spit between his teeth.

He was pushful, meant to get on, and had set up white spats as a part of his stock-in-trade.

Even as he sprang she saw the flash of the moonlight on his drawn revolver, and fire spat from it twice, answered by a yell of pain, the clang of a bullet on metal, and half a dozen shots from the woods behind her.

But I'll come later onsay that...." Aronsen spits after him, and says: "Ought to be shot!"

NOTE:"Johnson gives spat as the preterimperfect, and spit or spitted as the participle of this verb, when it means to pierce through with a pointed instrument: but in this sense, I believe, it is always regular; while, on the other hand, the regular form is now never used, when it signifies to eject from the mouth; though we find in Luke, xviii, 32, 'He shall be spitted on.