"Spirt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he tramples on the slain; The flying horse-hoofs spirt the crimson dew, And tread the gore down in the sandy plain. Now, man to man, at Thamyris he flew, And Pholus. Sthenelus aloof he slew; Aloof the two Imbracidae lay dead, Glaucus and Lades, of the Lycian crew, Both armed alike, whom Imbracus ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... often heard them. Broussais was in those days like an old volcano, which has pretty nearly used up its fire and brimstone, but is still boiling and bubbling in its interior, and now and then sends up a spirt of lava and a volley of pebbles. His theories of gastro-enteritis, of irritation and inflammation as the cause of disease, and the practice which sprang from them, ran over the fields of medicine for a time like flame over the grass of the prairies. The way in which that knotty-featured, ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
