spittings

Today, we will be experimenting with the viscosity of your various bodily fluids and Greenie will get out his Martha Stewart colouring kit and be injecting your massive luggies and spittings with a variety of entertaining colours which will range from livid yellow to dead slug green ...

weeme Diary Entry

[1844] And again: "I gave My back to the scourges, and My cheeks to the buffetings; I turned not away My face from the shame of spittings; and the Lord was My helper: therefore was I not confounded: but I set My face as a firm rock; and I knew that I should not be ashamed, for He is near that justifieth Me."

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

The mode of cure was simple -- the charmer breathed gently on the inflamed part, and then followed a series of little spittings upon and around it.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

One evening we ventured out for a walk in spite of growlings and spittings up above among the crass-looking clouds.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876

These facts accepted -- a delicate mother, an unhealthy nurse, an asthma, and constant spittings of blood -- it follows that, even with these serious disadvantages to contend with, a man may live and even enjoy life up to the age of sixty-eight.

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851

Thrice if thou sing, then speak with spittings three,

The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse

I poured and he pumped, and there were the usual sounds of a pump resuming activity: gurglings and spittings, suckings and sudden spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its breath — a few more long strokes of the handle, and the water poured.

More Jonathan Papers

The place made the visitor's head reel with the throb, throb, throb of the engines, the rotation of the big wheels, the spinning ball-valves, the occasional spittings of the steam, and over all the deep, unceasing, surging note of the big dynamo.

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

They surrounded My sacred head with a crown of thorns; My gracious face was covered with blood and spittings.

Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages

The place made the visitor's head reel with the throb, throb, throb of the engines, the rotation of the big wheels, the spinning ball-valves, the occasional spittings of the steam, and over all the deep, unceasing, surging note of the big dynamo.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories