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Immediately after my Tweet and the froth-flecked reverberations its flight inspired, I felt more than twinges of regret that I had roused the beasts which I have sought for years to placate through the uttering of low amusements: I felt genuine anxiety that their ire was directed at me, a Show-off who depends on goodwill to ensure the making of a living which in this economy is no easy feat.
Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird Steven Weber 2011
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Immediately after my Tweet and the froth-flecked reverberations its flight inspired, I felt more than twinges of regret that I had roused the beasts which I have sought for years to placate through the uttering of low amusements: I felt genuine anxiety that their ire was directed at me, a Show-off who depends on goodwill to ensure the making of a living which in this economy is no easy feat.
Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird Steven Weber 2011
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It was a scene which would utterly flummox the ideological foot soldiers, whose raised fists, misspelled signs and froth-flecked rants at their feverishly vilified opponents would make one think the United States is on the brink of a major kanipshin.
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His recent media tour, again while within his right, is every bit as disturbing and incendiary as the vitriol that issues forth from the froth-flecked mouths of religious zealots who cry for holy war.
Steven Weber: Who Is Dick Cheney? Questions and Answers 2009
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Violent, froth-flecked outbursts are the media's latest fetish and --- true to form -- the spewers themselves love a lens the way a seal loves a tossed fish.
Steven Weber: Mavericks, Mobs and the Cameras That Love Them 2008
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The fog had almost gone next morning, and pale sunshine streamed down upon a a froth-flecked sea.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905
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The fog had almost gone next morning, and pale sunshine streamed down upon a froth-flecked sea.
Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905
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With nostrils distended, and mane froth-flecked, and the neck and the shoulders,
Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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With nostrils distended and mane froth-flecked, and the neck and the shoulders,
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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Staring into the foaming abyss of scalding hot, froth-flecked blackcurrant syrup, I finally get it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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