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Spill out   /spɪl aʊt/   Listen
Spill out

verb
1.
Be disgorged.  Synonyms: pour out, spill over.






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"Spill out" Quotes from Famous Books



... her in a hundred different ways—in white satin, with a string of pearls about her neck; at meets, on one of her sixteen-hand hunters; playing golf; painting the rabbit-hutch in the garden; binding up Toffy's hand that morning, ages ago, when he had had a spill out of his motor-car; playing with the school-children on the lawn; or, best of all, perhaps, dancing in the great ballroom at Bowshott, and sitting with him afterwards in the dimness of his mother's tapestried chamber, her great white feather fan laid ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

... consorts, and were by no means disposed to go off empty-handed, if we could help it. We therefore quietly and unostentatiously checked our sheets and weather braces just sufficiently to permit the wind to all but spill out of our canvas, thus deadening our way somewhat; and the men then went ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood

... could get for hunting, and their supply was out. These were found in unusual numbers. The boys filled their pockets, and finally filled their sleeves, tying them tightly at the wrist with strings, so that the contents would not spill out. One of the boys found even an old pistol, which was considered a great treasure. He bore it proudly in his belt, and was envied by all ...
— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

... him shortly after that, as I shall tell you on the next page, when, in case the rocking chair doesn't tip over backwards and spill out the sofa cushion into the rubber plant, the story will be about Uncle ...
— Uncle Wiggily's Adventures • Howard R. Garis

... Mrs. Stanton's cheeks heavily now, and the grief made her look older than her twenty-four years, but the doctor said nothing, letting her spill out ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett



Words linked to "Spill out" :   swarm, teem, pullulate, stream, pour, pour out



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