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
His mouth is generally open, and contains a spumy matter exhaling an offensive smell.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Rain poured over the street-lamps in gauzy, iridescent ribbons; it wove spumy lace upon the black roadway and trailed, fuming, into the gutters.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
Now from the lowest depths, As yellow sands they turn, the billows shine; Now blacker seem they than the Stygian waves; Now flatten'd, all with spumy froth is spread.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
