"Spatter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Flirt? If you thus must chatter; And are for flinging Dirt, Let's try who best can spatter; ...
— The Beggar's Opera • John Gay
... hands, the Earth gesture of—strangely enough—both greeting and farewell, but we both realized that this might well be a final parting. The door closed behind him, and Correy and I were left together to watch the creeping hands of the Earth clock, the twin charts with their thick spatter of green lights, and the two fiery red sparks, one on each chart, that represented the Ertak sweeping recklessly ...
— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various
... reported, had fled to Keegark by air the night before, which explained the incident of the unaccountable aircar and lorry. The Channel Battery stopped firing, and, with the exception of an occasional spatter of small-arms fire, the ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
... the property of those who avoid evil, as others avoid the spatter of mud, through horror of the stains ...
— Common Sense - - Subtitle: How To Exercise It • Yoritomo-Tashi
... it was under the sway of Wouter Van Twiller, otherwise called the Doubter, the people of the Manhattoes were alarmed, one sultry afternoon, just about the time of the summer solstice, by a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning. The rain descended in such torrents, as absolutely to spatter up and smoke along the ground. It seemed as if the thunder rattled and rolled over the very roofs of the houses; the lightning was seen to play about the church of St. Nicholas, and to strive three times, in vain, to strike its weather-cock. Garret Van Horne's new chimney ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving |
