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Enormous quantities of a ruddy-brown fluid were spurting up in noisy jets out of the machine.

From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Flames were spurting from every window, and through the roof, even as they came into plain sight of the house, there burst a great pillar of fire.

From The Belgians to the Front by Wolff, William Almon

We heard that she had left the bay at noon the same day -- just as we were spurting our hardest to reach her.

From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Chater, Arthur G.

Our shell-bursts had gone much farther up the hill—one realised that; and heavy black clouds were spurting into the air below Boiselle, just behind the hill's shoulder.

From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)

The castle was theirs, and the roaring flames were spurting through the windows and flickering high above the turrets on two sides of the quadrangle.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir