- a variation of spew.
spue
Americannoun
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“I cannot vouch for that till Mason is out of England: nor even then. To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Be his solicitor yourself: persevere, and be steadfast: whether the glaring dog-star shall cleave the infant statues; or Furius, destined with his greasy paunch, shall spue white snow over the wintery Alps.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
So he threatens,—"I will spue thee out of my mouth," as a man's stomach loathes that which is nauseating.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele
To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.”
From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend
Then the estuary spued back the water; life in the city became normal, but damage was done to the extent of millions of dollars.
From Time Magazine Archive
He vomited them forth incessantly for well-nigh seven days, and at length with them spued out his wretched soul.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
When, finally, the River spued out a frightened and bedraggled dog, we drew a breath of very genuine relief, for Deuce was dear to us through much association.
From The Forest by Stewart Edward White
These, and a number of such like reproches hath this impure slanderer, spued foorth against an innocent nation, yea and that nation which hath deserued right well of him and his countrimen.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
What sea conceived and spued thee from its foamy crest?
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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