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Example sentences for "foams"

Lexicographically close words:
foaled; foals; foam; foamed; foaming; foamy; fobs; focal; focht; foci
  1. The castle rises upon the brink of the river, which foams past over the weir of an ancient mill, where once the inhabitants of the borough were bound by feudal service to grind all their corn.

  2. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid.

  3. And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and will hardly leave him, bruising him.

  4. But the sea awakes And frowns and foams and rises into anger So wild with wrath, and yet so powerless, As if a thousand chains had chained it down, To howl, to suffer, to rebel against The heartless merriment of stronger powers.

  5. When the milk boils (or foams up) add a small teaspoon of salt, and stir in the cold milk and gelatine.

  6. When the milk foams up as if nearly boiling, stir in six eggs which have been beaten, with two spoonfuls of white sugar; stir it every instant, until it appears to thicken a little.

  7. When the top of the milk foams up, stir in the farina gradually, and add the salt.

  8. Continuing their ride down the valley, in about ten hours the party reached the river Katounaia and the grassy valley through which it foams and flows.

  9. Here, where the river foams over a bed of rocks, stands the old Spanish castle of Don Juan.

  10. We have crossed the river in the face of the fall, and the portage landing is over this rock, while three yards out on either side the torrent foams its headlong course.

  11. Is it a wash of the yellow moss, Or drift of the autumn's gold, The mountain torrent foams across For the dead pine's roots to hold?

  12. The gun fires, and the lazy breeze of the morning strikes the huge spinnakers, while the razor-bowed craft move slowly out, and gradually gather speed until the troubled water foams in crisp whirls and rolls away aft in long creamy trails.

  13. One of them foams up to you, and you know that the man in command of her has perhaps not slept for seventy-two hours.

  14. Numbers of these huge fragments lie strewed beneath the rocks from which they have fallen, and amongst these the tide foams and rages with a fury peculiar to those latitudes.

  15. It is cleft incessantly from bottom to surface, bubbles rise and whirlpools are formed, and a long strip of lake foams and spurts.

  16. The water bubbles about the rope and foams out from the island, as if it were the bow of a racing-yacht.

  17. From where Orontes foams along the plain, From where Choaspes rolls his royal waves, And India sends her sons, submissive slaves.

  18. To the left foams the Taro, following whose rocky channel we should come at last to Pontremoli and the Tyrrhenian sea beside Sarzana.

  19. Yet the river foams in torrents at our side.

  20. At the end of a day in Gubbio, it is pleasant to take our ease in the primitive hostelry, at the back of which foams a mountain-torrent, rushing downward from the Apennines.

  21. He foams at Mouth, and raves, and blusters, And utters all his Words in Clusters.

  22. To the left foams the Taro, following whose rocky channel we should come at last to Pontremoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea beside Sarzana.

  23. The walls of the gorge rise sheer and steep; the path of the stream is strewn with huge boulders, over which it foams snow white, pausing in quiet little pools for breath before the next leap and scramble.

  24. Over these rocks, and across the whole river, the water dashes and foams most furiously, and with a roar which we heard distinctly at the distance of several miles.

  25. The Avon foams down from the moor through a contracted throat, affording scenes of great beauty in its ravine.

  26. By leaving the summit of Hare Tor on the left, a cluster of rocks rising above the grass and heather must be struck at, and suddenly before the eye opens the ravine of the Tavy, that foams far below over a bar of red granite.

  27. The water teems with the scent of the otter; but the deep pools, rapid stickles, and rocky boulders over which the river foams hinder the pace.

  28. So have I seen a river gently glide, 60 In a smooth course and inoffensive tide; But if with dams its current we restrain, It bears down all, and foams along the plain.

  29. Its narrow channel is broken by huge masses of rock over which the water foams and swirls in wild fury.

  30. The river foams among crags and boulders, and between rocky ledges, from which the trees hang dizzily, casting deep shadows across the stream, and making green reflections in each swirling pool.

  31. The river roars and rages like a chafed lion; and frets and foams against its rocky barrier, as if determined to overcome every obstacle that dares to impede its furious course.

  32. The Otonabee looks black, from the dark limestone bed over which it foams and rushes.


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