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
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 MacKenzie, Compton
"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)
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.
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 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
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 White, Stewart Edward
What sea conceived and spued thee from its foamy crest?
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
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