This irritated Purdy, who was spumy with the self-importance of one who has stood in the thick of the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
June 19th, 2006 at 8:16 pm frothy adjective 1. Consisting of or resembling foam: foamy, lathery, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Frothy Junior] Reference
Not with spumy cannon and prickly bayonets, but with peaceful spade and mattock, advanced the sons of St. Patrick towards the children of a sister isle. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
While th'oar-tortured wave with spumy whiteness was blanching. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
But when the Idea, which a Poet strives to raise, is in itself magnificent and striking, the Dawb of Metaphor, or any spumy. From Wordnik.com. ['Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation] Reference
He seemed still to hear the groans of the wounded, the shrieks of the prisoners being dragged thither, being hurled into the spumy, scalding water. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
As he spoke, Lennard saw what seemed to him like an illimitable sea of huge spumy billows and tumbling masses of foam, which seemed to roll and break over each other without sound. From Wordnik.com. [The World Peril of 1910] Reference
At times these seas are rounded in giant slopes as smooth as glass; at others they curl over, leaving a milk-white foam, and their slopes are marbled with a beautiful spumy tracery. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913] Reference
Every spring the swollen stream undermined a bluff to the east, or bit out a few acres of corn field to the west and whirled the soil away to deposit it in spumy mud banks somewhere else. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
On the exterior of the sternum was a laceration an inch and a half in length, covered by a spumy fluid, from the centre of which was heard a gurgling noise, showing that a wound had penetrated into the sac of the pleura. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Electricity spat cracklingly in our faces, and at our sides steel shafts as big as the pillars of a temple spun in coatings of spumy grease; and through the double skin of her we could hear, over our heads, a mighty Niagaralike churning as the slew-footed screws kicked us forward twenty-odd knots an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
It was not till then that they felt their terrific danger; in the swirl of those spumy and hissing waves it was all but impossible for them to make head against the current, and they felt it carry them nearer and nearer to the black, dripping mass, one blow of which would stun them, and one revolution of it mangle them with horrible mutilation. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Home] Reference
But why, turned aside from my first story, should I recount more, how the daughter fleeing her father's face, her sister's embrace, and e'en her mother's, who despairingly bemoaned her lost daughter, preferred to all these the sweet love of Theseus; or how borne by their boat to the spumy shores of Dia she came; or how her yokeman with unmemoried breast forsaking her, left her bound in the shadows of sleep?. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
I could snore to him of the spumy horn, with his woolseley side in, by the neck I am sutton on, did Brian d’ of Linn. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Dirty gray lather stood out in spumy rolls around the edge of the saddle-blanket, and the wet flanks of my horse heaved like the shoulders of a sobbing woman when I checked him on top of a bald sandstone peak -- and though as much of the Northwest as one man's eye may hope to cover lay bared on every hand, yet the quartet that rode with me from Fort Walsh occupied no part of the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Raw Gold A Novel] Reference
Flung in air her spumy wave. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian Literature] Reference
They had hot scent across the spumy sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917] Reference
Now flatten'd, all with spumy froth is spread. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Of boar, the spumy-lipped, or lion strong. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
Some spumy, fiery, ignis fatuus matter, 25. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry] Reference
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