Word: sputtering
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...Maybe he wants to talk," suggested a leading lyncher. Down came Ratliff again. "Go on! Talk!" shouted the crowd. But the rope was around Ratliff's neck so tight that he could only gasp and sputter...
...shopkeeper, it may be observed that he is neither stupid nor reticent. In fact, he may be very wise about certain things, such as farms, or gasoline engines, or boats, and he can talk to you almost with eloquence about what makes the bees swarm, or what causes that sputter in your motor car, or how to shoot the sun with a sextant. If you take the trouble to ask, he will perhaps reveal to you his shy ambition to become a ranger in the government forestry service, to join the merchant marine, to be a dairy farmer...
...there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks and loans from corporations. But whether it is legitimate to push that difference so far as to label a bank loan Credit and a corporation loan Capital is a point upon which many a banker would gag, sputter...
...dresses and jewels dwindled into an almost entirely theoretical question of "women's rights." Harold McCormick, who by this time had gladly produced an affidavit corroborating his wife's statement that she lived abroad, was doubtless glad to see the rumpus dwindle, even after so hideous a sputter, to a conclusion that did not include a senate investigation or even a hanging...
...drafted soldiers are not, fortunately, ever allowed an access to the stage; there are no mob scenes or speeches from the window. But the sound of the soldiers' voices is heard and their fifers play gay tunes in the expectation of disaster. A sputter of rockets goes up, at night, for a last and tragic parade. Confused, threatening, alive, these sounds sift into the shadowed room which is the stage; a room in which there has been caught, by some soft and secret charm of writing, by the clever playing of Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney, the intimate mystery...