spumy

• “After she was done, the studs of her ears were mirrored in the gray muzzle of spumy water like blobs she spit out on the sidewalk.”

  Simon & Schuster: Their Dogs Came With Them

• “June 19th, 2006 at 8:16 pm frothy adjective 1. Consisting of or resembling foam: foamy, lathery, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty.”

  Firedoglake » Frothy Junior

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

  Australia Felix

• “And, oh! the gorgeous masses of light and shadow which the falling sun cast on it, -- the shadows like great waves, the lights like their spumy tops and flying mist, -- thrown up from the heaving breast of a golden sea!”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864

• “Not with spumy cannon and prickly bayonets, but with peaceful spade and mattock, advanced the sons of St. Patrick towards the children of a sister isle.”

  Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses

• “Madden walked toward it rather unsteadily, with the spumy brine dashing into his face.”

  The Cruise of the Dry Dock

• “At times these seas are rounded in giant slopes as smooth as glass; at others they curl over, leaving a milk-white foam, and their slopes are marbled with a beautiful spumy tracery.”

  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913

• “Electricity spat cracklingly in our faces, and at our sides steel shafts as big as the pillars of a temple spun in coatings of spumy grease; and through the double skin of her we could hear, over our heads, a mighty Niagaralike churning as the slew-footed screws kicked us forward twenty-odd knots an hour.”

  Europe Revised

• “Every spring the swollen stream undermined a bluff to the east, or bit out a few acres of corn field to the west and whirled the soil away to deposit it in spumy mud banks somewhere else.”

  A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

• “He seemed still to hear the groans of the wounded, the shrieks of the prisoners being dragged thither, being hurled into the spumy, scalding water.”

  Darkness and Dawn

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