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Definition of Spurted
1. spurt [v] - See also: spurt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurted
Literary usage of Spurted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"... \.i clear ice spurted from an aperture, as in former similar experiments.
In a vessel with no aperture ice was subjected to a pressure of 20 tons to the ..."
2. Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland by John Hill Burton (1852)
"It was speckled with the corrosions of the acid which the poor man had instantaneously
spurted out ere she had ceased bending over him. ..."
3. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"The mutilated body of a beautiful marsh-deer was lying on the moist ground, pieces
of fur and flesh were scattered around, and the blood had even spurted on ..."
4. The Life and Letters of George Bancroft by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1908)
"The blood from the wound spurted upon the paper and the clotted drops stick upon
it yet." "12 April, 1847. "Where was it I stopped in my account of Sunday? ..."
5. The Alleged Malpractice Suit of Walsh Vs. Sayre by Lewis Albert Sayre, Margaret Sarah Walsh, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) (1870)
"quarters of an inch, when the pus spurted out in a full stream, striking on the
office floor, some distance from the child. The flow was suddenly checked by ..."
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