effervescence

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"That's it," said the professor; "metaphorically speaking, he has been pouring sulphuric acid upon the carbonate of lime of his composition, and all this effervescence is the consequence.

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  • His brain seemed to be in a state of boiling effervescence, and his tongue, with inconceivable rapidity, passed from subject to subject, but with an incoherence that was to me, at least, marvellous. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • This river sparkled with its effervescence, and sure enough, it was apple-flavored cola. —  Yon Ill Wind
  • "The yellow press possessed an effervescence, a visceral and essential appeal that newspapers 100 years later seem desperate to recapture," Campbell writes in —  Adrian Monck
  • The only scene that achieves any kind of comic effervescence is the one in which Clouseau recruits an entire restaurant to juggle bottles of expensive wine with him, and even that ends on a sour note. —  Alliance of Women Film Journalists
  • Collective effervescence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. —  GoodShit
 

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