The next moment he sprang from his stool with astonishing agility, splutteringand cursing.
Illustration: He sprang from his stool, spluttering and cursing.
Then, as they caught sight of the spluttering devil and took in the situation, he saw them turn to run.
It was a spluttering fire now, an occasional shot, and then a succession of reports.
The candles had sunk deep into the bottles and were spluttering in a sea of grease.
Somewhere on the high road I could hear motor-cars spluttering and humming.
It was the spluttering of the fuse, eating its merry way towards the five hundred casks of gunpowder.
In a spluttering of light from the searchlights Redwood saw earnest youthful faces turning to his son.
A little spluttering of voices about the platform at first that suddenly leapt up into a flame of sound and swept athwart the whole mass of humanity within the building and without.
No sound of battle could be heard but the spluttering of the wireless, from which it was learned at 9.
With rifles spluttering in the scrub and bullets moaning on their flight out to sea, the Wellingtons scaled the steep clay sides of Table Top and went straight for the Turks.
Soon both banks of the Canal were ablaze with the spluttering of rifles fired by soldiers undergoing their baptism of fire.
Later, when Dunk was spluttering threats, they had galloped up to the edge of the group and pulled their horses to a stand.
And there go the fireworks, too," he shouted; and there was a banging and spluttering in the hut next to ours, and little bits of it flew about.
There was a round basketwork thing spluttering and fizzing, and the beastly stinking smoke coming out of it, lying jammed in a corner close to me.
I heard the spluttering of a port-fire, and smelt the saltpetre of the match.
His spluttering voice issued out of a flat, yellow face.
I think that's about enough," he said, and returned the choking and spluttering prisoner to his place between the guards.
Ras al Had took the splutteringlight from Assouan's hand.
Up the Nile a small excursion steamer was spluttering and throbbing, showing its lights.
Somebody would cough pitifully for a long time--and when he had done spluttering and cursing, the world outside appeared lost in an even more profound stillness.
Roy lay back with closed eyes and knitted brows, and Polly sat on a low chair watching the great spluttering log and showers of sparks, while Mildred and Richard talked in undertones.
Chriss blazed up in a moment, with a great deal of spluttering and incoherence.
In the dead silence that followed, the buzz of a fly, the spluttering of wax candles, could be distinctly heard.
He explained afterwards that he thought he heard the pan spluttering extra, and looked to see if the chops were burning.
He had been too excited at the moment of picking up the spluttering shell to note its shape or size, but now he saw at a glance that the one he held in his hand was obsolete and out of date.
While the clerk's quill pen was scratching and spluttering over the parchment, the officer turned to us once more.
In obedience to an order, there was a hasty stampede on the part of the rebels from the church, and, in our anxiety, we imagined we could hear the spluttering of the slow-match.
But suddenly a short, stifled, spluttering cry rang sharply out: "Paul!
On the top thereof was a mighty cauldron, and the steam therefrom rose in dense clouds, and disappeared in the blackness of darkness; and there was much smoke and flame, and a loud spluttering noise, accompanied by hissing and crackling.
Tom sat forward with a gasp, spluttering and choking.
A pall of smoke hung over fortress and encampment, while in the depths of night guns flashed redly, and spluttering portfires hovered here and there as the gunners stood to their pieces.
Through the cracking and spluttering we at last heard the noise of a wagon moving.
A stream of lead poured through the window, but the spluttering of bullets on the walls of the room had no more effect on me than the pattering of hailstones.
After spluttering for a minute or two, so that he could get rid of the balance of the water he had swallowed, Peg faced the two chums.
See what you did," Peg exclaimed, now splutteringwith burning anger.
Jack descended a flight of wooden steps, and, turning to the left, entered a low subterranean chamber, lighted by a spluttering candle stuck into the neck of a bottle standing upon a table in the centre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spluttering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
