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 Gretchen Graf Pahl
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 Henry Handel Richardson
Soon as her beak had burst through wind-rackt spaces of ocean, While th'oar-tortured wave with spumy whiteness was blanching, Surged from the deep abyss and hoar-capped billows the faces 15Seaborn, Nereids eyeing the prodigy wonder-smitten.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
