geyser

• She feels a scream building in her chest, rushing up her throat like a geyser, a live thing struggling to get out, and images of death—his and hers, blood, mutilated bodies, darkness—swirling in her brain, and the scream pushing, pushing up. —  EQMM,November2007
• "Geysir" (from which the English word geyser is derived), erupts every 5-10 minutes —  ChessBase News
• Or, to make the question intelligible to those among us who speak the Sweden-borgian tongue, what 'uses does he perform THE DEVIL'S CAŃON IN CALIFORNIA This wonderful ravine is more generally known under the name of the Geysers of California_, an ambitious misnomer, which associates it with the grand Geysers of Iceland, and has given rise to erroneous ideas in regard to the nature and action of the springs it contains The prevalent idea of a geyser is a hot fountain, sometimes quiescent, but at others rising in turbulent eruption. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• A true geyser is a natural hydraulic machine of magnificent power; it is a spring, to be sure, but a mineral spring is not necessarily a geyser, and there is as much difference between the 'Geysers of California' and the Strokr or the 'Great Geyser,' as there is between a squib and a musket-shot. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• It was a geyser, a column of hot water shooting up, at regular intervals and with great force, from the unknown deeps of the earth As he gazed, the column gradually sank, the boiling water in the pit sank, too, and there was no longer any rumble or quaking of the earth. —  The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War

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