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

This irritated Purdy, who was spumy with the self-importance of one who has stood in the thick of the fray.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

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

There was a faint radiance around the shut door of the mess hall, and Madden walked toward it rather unsteadily, with the spumy brine dashing into his face.

From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.