When a spunge is somewhat condensed by being squeezed between the fingers, it will not receive and retain so much water as when in its more loose and open state.
Thus, common matter is a kind of spungeto the electrical fluid.
Now what the spunge is to water, the same is water to the electric fluid.
If the pressure of the fingers be entirely removed, the spunge will not only resume what was lately forced out, but attract an additional quantity.
And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man, 389.
Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man Can hold of beer and ale an ocean; Is this his glory?
The swarthy complexion of the physician turned ashy-pale when he noticed these symptoms, but without saying a word he ordered a spunge dipped in vinegar to be brought, which he fastened to his mouth.
Erastus fastened the spunge dipped in vinegar once more to his mouth, and entered the dwelling with his colleagues who took the like precautions.
Thus common matter is a kind of spunge to the electrical fluid.
To "give a man the RUSH," is to spunge upon him all day, and then borrow money at the finish, or pursue some such similar mode of procedure.
Also, to spunge upon a comrade or stranger for drink.
If you hold a peece of spunge in your hand filled with some sheeps bloud, pressing it out, the bodkin being in your forehead as it were up to the hilt, it will cause the more astonishment and admiration among the beholders.
Illustration] [Sidenote: Note that in such feats as this, it were necessarie to have a piece of spunge with some sheepes bloud in it to be retained privately.
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spunge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
