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
To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.”
From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.
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
They tried to spue out their bits and covered them with foam, as if rebellious, yet submitted to the will of the riders.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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