Which preposition to use with spouts
Raking the shingles, and the sea-worn rocks Sucking the brine through bared and lapping locks Of bright, brown tangle; while the shelving ledges Poured back the swirling waters o'er their edges; And billows breaking on a precipice In spouts of spray, fell spreading like a fleece.
And yonder is the identical Swinburne you used to spout from, too.
It creeps up whole hillsides with insidious heat, unguessed until one notes the pine woods dying at the top, and having scorched out a good block of timber returns to steam and spout in caked, forgotten crevices of years before.
" "Have you seen a whale?" "I've seen black fish; they spout like whales.
Once more the creature dived, and this time he stayed down only a few minutes, and, when he came up, blood spouted into the air and dyed the sea crimson, and Kalitan exclaimed: "Pierced his lungs!
But that to-morrow never comes, until they see quite plainly That it’s completely up the spout with Messrs. Scrase and Ainley.
Thinking over it, however, he remembered that just on the other side of the wall was the stable where his father's horses lived, close to the parson's garden; and in the corner, at the foot of the wall, was a drain; so that all he had to do was to fit another spout to this, at right angles to it, and carry it over the wall.
I think he regarded that little hell's kitchen as merely a feed-spout for his vast enterprise.
Men whose fame fills the land, when they are at home or spouting about the country, sink into insignificance when they get to Washington.
"Look," said she; "how it streams down from the spout at the corner of the barn!"
Scott was shot; his wife was seized and held motionless, while all her four children were tomahawked, and their throats cut, the blood spouting over her clothes.
can't see me; and I'll put my self into such a Posture, that if he feel me, he shall as soon take me for a Church Spout as a Man.
"Fogs are not its worst calamities: thunder-storms and water-spouts off the coasts are very frequent.
Then they go softly with it into the great city,one to a cleft in the pavement, one to a spout on the roof, one to a seam in the marbles over a rich gentleman's bones, and one to the grave without a stone where nothing but a man is buried,and there they grow, looking down on the generations of men from mouldy roofs, looking up from between the less-trodden pavements, looking out through iron cemetery-railings.
"I am not bandaging your eyes," went on the officer, "because I want you to look into this little round, round hole, and wait to see the fire spout out of it at you.
She can't even stand it to hear the water running down the eave spouts during a heavy shower.
Even the mill was silent, and the gate shut down; and, instead of the ordinary roar of the water under the wheel, only a hissing sound was heard, where the imprisoned water spouted through the crevices of the flume.
It was a lovely country of orchards and gardens, with fountains spouting by the wayside, and country houses perched on the steeps.
A column of water spouted near the prow.