Dentist's request

Usage examples of spit.

Sure enough, this was the case inNogales: within spitting distance of the border a chemist was advertising amoxycillin and ampicillin at 35 per cent discount.

Mistress Anan was death on anybody spitting on her floors, or tossing bones, or even tapping out a pipe.

No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth.

The Collectivist who drove it on his suicide mission, brave with drink and the assuredness of death, had rammed the blockade at Sly Station and powered on toward Spit Bazaar, but the militia had detonated the train as it approached, tearing a hole in the stitching of arches that went the length of New Crobuzon.

For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.

By the time Yama had climbed into a crotch of the banyan, hidden amongst rustling leaves high above the spit, the skiff was edging through the slick of feeder roots that ringed the banyan.

On the kitchen floor, amid a litter of empty champagne fifths, were Sandor Rojas and three friends, playing spit in the ocean and staying awake on Heidseck and benzedrine pills.

He is chewing besil root and turns to spit over the edge as we step up to the clip-on line.

Barbarians were confounded by the image of their own patience and the masculine females, spitting in the faces of their sons and husbands, most bitterly reproached them for betraying their dominion and freedom to these pygmies of the south, contemptible in their numbers, diminutive in their stature.

There was silence again, except for a remark that he could spit all the blanky rain they had had in the last nine months.

American blurted passionately, spitting a mouthful of blood and broken enamel onto the floor.

Ossory spits in the teeth of the rules Brian Boru laid down for warfare.

The brasses had disgusted him because the musicians were, he thought, always shaking spit out of them.

But, as she spoke, a black-jowled fellow laughed, And, spitting, tripped her with out-thrust pike-shaft, That down she fell and wailed most piteously, Whereat the brawny fellows laughed all three.

Though Bray had practiced many times the act of spitting it out, he still gagged as he belched it forth.