Example Sentences

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He sprang up it to a small door, through the chinks of which came a glow of light, and smoke was spuming out.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington

Twice in succession has it befallen me to be privately busy in a backwater when the main stream was spuming and ramping with the great bore of a general election.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel