"Spittle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and common errors which Sir Thomas Browne set himself to refute, were such as these: That dolphins are crooked, that Jews stink, that a man hath one rib less than a woman, that Xerxes's army drank up rivers, that cicades are bred out of cuckoo-spittle, that Hannibal split Alps with vinegar, together with many similar fallacies touching Pope Joan, the Wandering Jew, the decuman or tenth wave, the blackness of negroes, Friar Bacon's brazen head, etc. Another book in which great learning and ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... another, what is sharp, grow potent. But, if these Corrupt humors be not without all delay presently expelled out of the Body, by the ordinary Emunctories of Nature either by the Belly, or by Urine of the Bladder, or by the Sweat through the Pores, or by the Spittle of the Mouth, or by the Nostrils, assuredly the corruption of one, becomes the Generation of another, viz. of a Disease. For, from every spark, if we do not timely extinguish it, an exceding great burning will arise. Also, if ...
— The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires • John Frederick Helvetius
... yer crawlin,' lick-spittle carneyin' ways, Yo think very likely bein' a nippercrit'll pay! Still some day it's certain you'll be found out at lorst As a cringin', ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 14, 1891. • Various
... come again—he's come again!" she replied, in the midst of an effort to catch a spittle to wet her parched throat. "He's been at Will Pearson's, and Widow Lindsay's, and Rob Paterson's—he's gaun his auld rounds—and dootless he'll be here too. O Marion! Marion! gie me a spark ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... ardens (fiery water), sponsa (betrothed), coniux (wife), mater, mother (Eve),—from her princes are born to the king,—virgo (virgin), lac virginis (virgin's milk), menstruum, materia hermaphrodita catholica Solis et Lunae (Catholic hermaphrodite matter of sun and moon), sputum Lunae (moon spittle), urina puerorum (children's urine), faeces dissolutae (loose stool), fimus (muck), materia omnium formarum ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
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