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
The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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
For that is the reason the hearts of men Are ever weary—they would abide Somewhere out of the spumy stride Of the world's spindrift—a want denied.
From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice
