spumy

Example Sentences

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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2017

The British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when the Idea, which a Poet strives to raise, is in itself magnificent and striking, the Dawb of Metaphor, or any spumy Colourings of Rhetoric can but deaden, and efface it.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf

Rain poured over the street-lamps in gauzy, iridescent ribbons; it wove spumy lace upon the black roadway and trailed, fuming, into the gutters.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold