The poem is full of such reminiscences: "With holy meal andspirting (MS.
How we all like thespirting up of a fountain, seemingly against the law that makes water everywhere slide, roll, leap, tumble headlong, to get as low as the earth will let it!
But the danger of spirting decreases as the proportion of gold becomes greater, and disappears when the gold is much over 30 per cent.
The silver is apparently solid when spirting takes place; the crust breaks suddenly and some of the metal is forced out.
How I abominate," said Mildred, "all those devices for spirting water out of the mouths of animals!
Who cares to see water spirting in the fog of London, in an atmosphere cold and damp, where there is rain enough to drown the fountain, and wind enough to scatter it in the air?
But it has a faculty, from which its name is derived, of spirting its venom into the face of its assailant, and if the venom enters the eye, at which the animal darts it, immediate blindness ensues.
Not exactly; there is another, which I have specimens of, but whose faculties I have never seen put to the test, which is called the spirting snake.
There was a spirting from the blood-vessels in the neck, and then the headless corpse spun round in a circle, the legs moving convulsively like those of a chicken when its throat is cut.
But I can still picture Tom, running with his face set through thespirting sand--one doesn't forget things like that.
Then I must have shouted, for Tom came running back, with the sand spirting all round.
Fuses with much spirting and in the reducing flame yields a metallic bead and incrusts the charcoal with oxide.
When he came to the place, the water was spirting out everywhere.
Water was coursing freely down the shaft and spirting over us in fine spray, so that, ere long, we were as wet and dirty as any miner in Botallack.
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