"Spittle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have flung at him a quittance for my foolish stepfather's debts, and then dismissed him. For a long time I have hated him. Even in earlier days he was not a man; and now!—Oh, how gladly I could throw those fifty thousand roubles in his face, and spit in it, and then rub the spittle in!" ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... would suspect it for a shop of witchcraft, to find in it the fat of serpents, spawn of snakes, Jews' spittle, and their young children's ordure; and all these for the face. I would sooner eat a dead pigeon taken from the soles of the feet of one sick of the plague, than kiss one of you fasting. Here are two of you, whose sin of your youth is the very patrimony of the physician; makes him renew his foot-cloth ...
— The Duchess of Malfi • John Webster
... which Kostiei had fixed for the prince's last trial, and there were no signs of him, the king sent to his room to ask why he delayed so long. The servants, finding the door locked, knocked loudly and received for answer, 'In one moment.' It was the spittle, which was imitating ...
— The Grey Fairy Book • Various
... grass... sucked dead grass to get some spittle... an' sometimes we tried to eat grass to fill up a bit.. . no ...
— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave
... Druid was a glass ball reported to be made in summer of the spittle of snakes, and caught by the priests as the snakes tossed it into ...
— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley
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