spue
Americannoun
verb
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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
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.
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)
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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