Then the Rifaee twisted a cobra round our joined hands, and requested me to spiton it; he did the same, and I was pronounced safe and enveloped in snakes.
The writer lays especial stress on this point, because the early Christians saw in the transverse spit an emblem of the cross.
Then he said to Sakovich,-- "Conscience speaks only the truth, but mouths chew it and spit it into the world as calumny.
His wounds had healed, he ceased to spit blood, life played in him as of old, and fire gleamed in his eyes.
When the infantry spit in his eyes, his Tartars will scatter like sand; he will fall himself, or we shall take him alive.
I jeer at the wills of you nobles," said the prince; "I spit on your wills!
Or as Fosdick railed, "Suck all and spit out what you don't like!
It would merely grind the soul out of him andspit him forth.
Otherwise there is nothing but the long, low, sandy, and grassy spit projecting far out into the ocean.
Teller spit and come in the lee of it into calmer water.
The north-northwest still blows, and so the ship has to anchor to the south of the long spit on the point of which is the village.
We have anchored to the south of the spit on which stands the village and can not unload or get ashore.
The favored locations have been an elevated flat near the mouth of a fresh-water stream or the outlet of a lagoon, a sufficiently elevated spit projecting into the sea, or an elevated bar between the sea and an inland lake.
So we end by landing on the extremity of a spit there to make lunch, and I have only the time it takes to prepare the latter.
I would spit the dust out of my mouth burst out of these stiff wire webs supple incautious like the crocuses that spurt up too soon their saffron flames and die gloriously in late blizzards and leave no seed.
When the cook had prepared the meat for roasting, he found that the dog which should have wrought the spit had disappeared.
They spit in the face of their riders when tied up, or made to lie down; which is particularly disagreeable, from the nature of their saliva.
We were now nearing Shaw's Point, a long willowed spit of land, called after a whimsical old chief-factor of the Hudson's Bay Company who had charge of this district over sixty years before.
We always saw them take water in their mouths, which theyspit out over the wounded.
If they did not love us before, they hated us ten times worse now, and when any of our men landed, they used to spit on the ground in contempt, calling out Portugal!
Then she went and put the fowls down again to the fire, basted them, and drove the spit merrily round.
St George is an English Sailor mounted on a Lion, with a Spit (by Way of Lance) bearing a Sirloin of Beef in one Hand, and a full Pot of Porter marked only Three Pence a QUART in the other.
A Cook roasted upon a Spit at the Kitchen-Fire and basted by the Devil.
Is it through honor to the Saints that you walk over their images and spitupon those of the Holy Angels?
And if they wanted the spit to be high, it could be raised to a man's height, and at another time it would not be more than the height of a fist over the fire, without breaking and without lessening.
Nine men that were outlaws went to her one time and asked for a spit to be made for themselves.
But for all that," they said, "take a spit of the spits with you, since you had the daring to try and take it in spite of us.
And the cooking-spit I asked of you is a spit of the spits of the women of Inis Cenn-fhinne, the Island of Caer of the Fair Hair.
And she had a great cooking-spit there, that held three sorts of food on it at the one time: a piece of raw meat, and a piece of dressed meat, and a piece of butter.
Yes, I spit on my bait every time, and that's the trick to fetch 'em.
Suddenly Kasheed Hassoun, accompanied by a smaller and much darker man, had entered and striding up to the table exclaimed in a threatening manner: "Where is he who did say that he would spit upon the beard of my bishop?
