- a variation of spew.
spue
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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
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 Steele, David
Puritans spue forth the venome of your dull inuentions.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
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 Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
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
The church had known no such doctrine before, and then spued it out of her mouth, but it was gravely held and fiercely and impudently avowed.
From The Future of the Colored Race in America Being an article in the Presbyterian quarterly review of July, 1862 by Aikman, William
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 Hakluyt, Richard
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 Lawlor, Hugh Jackson
The carrying away of the covenant-people into exile had been actually prophesied by the fact, that the land had spued out its former inhabitants on account of their sins.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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