He never mocks, For mockery is the fume of little hearts. From LearnThat.org. [Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).]
She continued to fume while his attention wavered. From Wordnik.com. [My Lucky Tooth] Reference
Keep your head; let the other fellow fret and fume. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
He would not eat, or drink, or do anything but fume. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
In anger and fume thou would become a railing prophet. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
"They fume and fuss a lot, but they won't do anything.". From Wordnik.com. [The Destroyers] Reference
Grille de fer où la chair fume, les cheveux pétillent. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference
When you see a thin blue fume rising from it, it is hot enough. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
He smokes, and with his mouth receyve the fume that doth arise. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
She could see nothing but the blinding fume of the upflung snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Geographers and climatologists fume over access to geospatial data. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
At this Trimalchio fell into a fume; and "whatever lands," said he. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
But heere mee thinke I heare the lukewarme worldling of our times, fume. From Wordnik.com. [A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich] Reference
If he wanted to get rich, he'd fume to reporters, he'd quit the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [What I learned reporting on Alaska's ??Uncle Ted' Stevens] Reference
She put Wyvis into a fume about his honor; and so he asked me to marry him. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
I could see Deborah begin to fume, like a dormant volcano stirring to life. From Wordnik.com. [Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids] Reference
Seti, in a fume of boyish indignation at Rameses, attended her like a shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Why should I fume and fret and worry as to what the sealed envelope contains?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
So we can go on listening to Glenn and Rush and Sarah fume and rant and whine. From Wordnik.com. [Toby Barlow: The Tea Party's Worst Nightmare: Ike] Reference
Conservatives fume about the AFL-CIO's ambitious plans to help Democrats this year. From Wordnik.com. [It's Dole Inc. Vs. Clinton Inc.] Reference
Survivors have slashed production and grounded fleets of diesel-fume-belching trucks. From Wordnik.com. [The Recession’s Green Lining] Reference
And there indeed he found him, an excitable little man, walking up and down in a fume. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Before we were conscious of his proceedings, he had disappeared through fume and haze. From Wordnik.com. [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference
It must be a pret-ty flower, for ev-er-y thing in the clothes press has that per-fume, Ka-tie says. From Wordnik.com. [Pages for Laughing Eyes] Reference
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