"Spatter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the doorway looking after him, and saw his figure outlined against the glimmer of their fire, which had already felt the spatter of the coming storm and was dying down; then, even as she looked, he seemed to plunge forward, and fall—the thud of that fall was like a blow on her throat! She gasped, "Maurice—" And again, "Maurice! Have ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... of the day were recalled to memory, the pent-up wrath of the Intendant broke forth. "Damn the Golden Dog and his master both!" exclaimed he. "Philibert shall pay with his life for the outrage of to-day, or I will lose mine! The dirt is not off my coat yet, Cadet!" said he, as he pointed to a spatter of mud upon his breast. "A pretty medal that for the Intendant to wear in a Council ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... he raised his rifle, and a vivid spatter of fire followed. As the report died out, one of the great forms sank to the ground with a scream that sounded almost human. The others glided off in the same direction as they had the night before, and vanished in the same mysterious way, before the thunderstruck ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... vehemently. "I know he was mad about missing the arithmetic lesson, but he wouldn't go and spatter ink on a book. And it was such a ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School • Mabel C. Hawley
... serious tone, "I'd rather fall into the hands of the Germans, and have some chance for my life, than spatter myself all over the bottom ...
— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll
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