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"Seethe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brandishing to the last his sword in the face of his enemy. I longed to look over, down the glimmering wall, to the swelling rush of the green waters as they leapt up rejoicing to receive the colossal diamond-like berg as it crashed down to them, to see them seethe over it and fling their spray high up in the sunshine in mocking revelry; but it was impossible. The fissures in the ice multiplied themselves as one neared the edge and now were spread round my feet in a perfect network, like the meshes ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross
... office, as if henceforward this child of ridiculous changes was to settle down into a silent assistant for a quiet solicitor. It was exactly at this moment that his fundamental rebellion began to seethe; it seethed more against the quiet finality of his legal occupation than it had seethed against the squalor and slavery of his days of poverty. There must have been in his mind, I think, a dim feeling: "Did ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton |
Words linked to "Seethe" : boil, swarm, froth, roil, effervesce, form bubbles, be, hum, spill over, foam, sizzle, fizz, bubble over, pullulate, teem, overflow, moil, ferment, buzz |
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