- 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
"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 spue and cast her off, Bid her go find a husband with the dead.
From Oedipus Trilogy by Francis Storr
And, even if there were, it would spue him and all who are like him out of its mouth.
From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte
Now I believe in what The Spectator stands for, and I admire its creed enormously, but the expression of its opinions makes me spue.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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 William Aikman
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
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