Thesaurus / spouting
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For over twenty years it has been spouting at average intervals of sixty-five minutes.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUS
She was surrounded and beset by great boiling whirlpools and spouting cross-seas.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNE
At its orifice reappeared the gold, spouting up furious and fuming, as if insulted by the vile metal which confined it.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMAS
A savage howling mingled with the roar; the foam flew far like the spouting of a leviathan.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGO
The spouting characteristic of the whale rendered it a marine equivalent to the elephant.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEY
O for a soda-fount spouting up boldlyFrom every hot lamp-post against the hot sky!
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUS
As the boat went on, the children said, "There she blows," as the sailors do when they see whales spouting in the distance.
STORIES OF CALIFORNIAELLA M. SEXTON
Presently a great bull rose lazily, spouting in front of the mate's boat, and lay idly wallowing in the tumbling sea.
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
And Algernon went on spouting unintelligible talk under a torrent of blows.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
It had an odious habit when lowered of spouting jets of water through its chain-lead on to the cabin floor.
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDSERSKINE CHILDERS
WORDS RELATED TO SPOUTING
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