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 Youatt, William

Spū′miness, the quality of being spumy or frothy.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir