Then they came out on a wide grassy plain by a river, where a large herd of wild elephants was standing knee-deep in the stream, solemnly spouting water over their backs.
But in another moment he had water enough and to spare, for the elephant, filling his trunk with water, began to cool himself by spoutingit over his body, and in a very short time Jack was drenched to the skin.
We closely observed him: he drank two basins and a quarter of water, each holding about four quarts, and he was five minutes spouting them out.
He steadied and swayed beside me, while he watched that cruel picture of rock and snow and spouting surf.
Seas burst and surged across her weather-rail and kept her deck half filled, despite the spouting ports and gushing scuppers.
Wherever the shells struck they appeared to cause conflagrations, and this, though the hoses were spouting water and the decks drowned before the action began.
The whole hilltop around our guns was like a spouting volcano.
The hoses were allspouting water to wet the decks; every eye was turned upon the enemy.
About this time the Kronprinz Wilhelm’s speed seemed markedly to decline, and the big armoured cruiser gained upon her rapidly, spouting shell from all her guns that would bear.
Large parties of bluejackets led by lieutenants were sent down to pass coal from the bunkers; in the engine-rooms the water was spouting from half a dozen hoses upon the bearings.
Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spoutingblood like a whale.
But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.
To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position.
It is certain that the mouth indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the spiracle.
Hence, all the smaller, spouting and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology.
Before us, at times, would come a burst of spouting spray, and a whale would rise to the surface of the sea.
While he was creeping up to the water's edge, there came the rush of a spouting breath so near that we seemed to feel the crystal spray.
Then a rain of ice blocks, hurled in rapid succession, drove the spoutinganimals down.
Into a sandy field all spouting with exploding shells and bullets the drivers galloped and steered the plunging guns.
There was once a spouting club, perhaps it is in favour still; before it was the music-room.
For one thing, History can notice with satisfaction, on the ruins of the Bastille, a Statue of Nature; gigantic, spouting water from her two mammelles.
Here a number of small cascades are seen spouting from the side of the cliff, only a small part of the fall being utilised by the factories situated there.
Just below this ledge, probably three hundred feet from the head of the island, the current is directed against some obstruction which causes it to spout up into the air, causing what is called the Spouting Rock.
Mr. Damon, as he saw the young inventor head directly toward a spouting mushroom of flame, which showed that the fire had broken through the roof.
Having attained what he considered a sufficient elevation, Tom headed the Lucifer straight toward the up-spouting column of fire and smoke.
In another few seconds they would be sailing directly into the path of the up-spouting flames.
Now the fire was out except for a few small spots spouting up here and there, away from the center of the blaze.
Nearer and nearer to the up-spouting column of flames the airship winged her way.
Just at this time a shoal of jolly porpoises came rolling and tumbling by, turning up their sleek sides to the sun, and spouting up the briny element in sparkling showers.
In other than a droughty summer it would probably not exist; thespouting torrent would overwhelm it--but I know not.
It was spouting whatever filthy fluid ran in its veins even as it waddled onward, screaming.
One of the flame weapons flew to bits, spouting what seemed to be liquid thermit upon friend and foe alike.
One day Aulay Macneill, in his boat, but dumb with amaze and terror for him, saw him at high tide swimming on a long rolling wave right into the hollow of the Spouting Cave.
About four leagues off it had the appearance of black rocks full of grey stars, against which the sea beat like the spouting of whales.
Straight down the swift current came sweeping A raft, spouting sparks and flame; Pushed on by an iron-clad rebel, Under our port side it came.
Tis a song of havoc the rowlocks sing, And Death marks time in the rower's swing; 'Tis a baleful glow on the spouting spray, As the keels in their cruel lust make way.
Her only chance would be to overhear him spouting to me, which if she's discreet she may occasionally be able to do.
Patricia's spouting again," remarked Judith with the serene cruelty of extreme youth.
Do you mean to say, Miss Pat, that this buccaneer is the lady from the rural districts you were spouting about?
I sends her and her sprats a-swimming in the gutter, and I falls as flat as a flounder on the pavement, spoutingout blood from my nose, like a whale.
The waves went up in spouting foam betwixt the wreck and the boat, and then subsiding, heaved us with a tremendous crash against the side of the vessel; and I remember no more till I awoke to misery, in a kelp hut by the sea-shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spouting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
