Etymology
Origin of spilth
Example Sentences
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Down her body there was a spilth of seeds and pulp.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Hard by there lurched One gorgeous galleon on the ravening shoals, Feeding the white maw of the famished waves With gold and purple webs from kingly looms And spilth of world-wide empires.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
Gold and jewels I threw; Still he couched there perdue; I tempted his blood and his flesh, Hid in roses my mesh,20 Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth; Still he kept to his filth.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
Bright spiritual beings like Pippa shed their souls innocently and unwittingly about like a spilth of "X-rays," and the irradiation penetrates instantly the dense opposing integuments of passion, cupidity, and worldliness.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, the head of it striking one leg of the table.
From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
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