Etymology
Origin of spilth
Example Sentences
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But enough of the stale spilth of bar-rooms.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
Gold and jewels I threw, Still he couched there perdue; I tempted his blood and his flesh, 20Hid in roses my mesh, Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth: Still he kept to his filth.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)
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 Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
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 Noyes, Alfred
There it hums and caracoles, through the bottles and glasses; reckless what dangerous breakage and spilth it may occasion.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas
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