How To Use Sputtering In A Sentence
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Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes.
SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
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Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
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The bubble burst late last year as the economy started sputtering, and now about 10 per cent of credit card debt is more than one month overdue in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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The Fed has already cut rates seven times this year, by a total of three full percentage points, to try to reignite sputtering economic growth.
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Sputtering offense again plagued the Demon Deacons, as it did when they were beaten by Maryland last week in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
USATODAY.com
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Somehow I had ended up on the floor, sputtering and crying, the whole bodice of my dress no longer attached to the sleeves revealing the bodice of my under garments.
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The sputtering of the economy over the past 18 months now has been overshadowed by terror and tragedy.
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It was just sputtering, so I threw some more gasoline on it.
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He coughed, sneezed, and barked simultaneously -- bleated in one breath, and cackled in the next -- sputteringly shrieked, and chatteringly squealed, with a bass of suffocated roars.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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Incredible, utterly, sputteringly incredible. sit; stand; jump; d. l.
Oatcake Diary Entry
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A sputtering light-ball of the size of a food pellet, it cast a circle of such intense brilliance on the metal ceiling that the sunglow illumination was dim by comparison.
"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 4
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If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering.
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In unison, as a hundred languages choired below them, the imaginary stars and planets lifted into the higher regions of air, sputtering and fading as they caught a sudden wind and scattered, in a babble of fire and voices, over the bay of Istar.
The Dark Queen
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Another kick to the chest sent him into another sputtering cough and the men began to cackle and laugh.
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The Loyalists amongst the Colonials came out in crowds to see him, eager to show their allegiance now that it looked as if the revolution were sputtering out.
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Methods: The nature HA films were prepared by electron beam evaporation and rf - magnetron sputtering techniques.
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There was a faint sputtering noise behind, but he barely registered the sound or noticed the flicker.
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Isn't my sputtering rather feeble compared to the inspired apocalyptic rants being posted by some world class ranters?
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Sputtering, uncomprehending rage was all I got in response.
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Laura had, in fact, been sputteringly furious at the idea of Eugenia refusing to let him keep the dog.
Dreaming of the Bones
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Unions are to blame cause some sputtering spile slipped its bung.
Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case
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She took a sip of the brownish liquid in her can, grimacing slightly, but not sputtering it out.
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The compound fraction of target surface was gotten from the rate equations of sputtering and the transport equations of reactive particles .
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Sputtering, I discovered the volleyball floating next to me as whoops of triumph entered my ears.
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When he finally comes up sputtering from the muddy waters of the Big Black River, there is an instant when Keith Lane looks like some ancient water god who has been catapulted into the 21st century.
The Catfish Men
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Her stomach grumbled as she hungrily eyed the sausages sputtering on the blackened grill.
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She reached for a pulse as the nurse rolled onto her back, sputtering and gurgling, leaving a hank of hair on the clean tile floor.
DO NO HARM
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I was seized, hauled aboard, sputtering and gasping and screaming in the rough hempen net, air chasing water from my lungs.
Valentines, part the first
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Now the Food and Agriculture Organization and other agencies warn such price rises could be the shape of things to come as farmers struggle to produce the estimated 70% more food that will be needed by 2050, even as climate change hampers already sputtering crop-yield growth and biofuels consume a greater proportion of production.
Incoming FAO Chief Says Brazil Program Offers Model for Fighting Global Hunger
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The most likely explanation was some intermittent natural process, perhaps resembling Jupiter's decametric sputtering.
Across The Sea Of Suns
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s micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
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The grooved mating surface is covered by a layer of nickel having a consistent thickness, preferably by means of electroplating, sputtering, electroless plating, or as a foil.
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The central bank is expected to cut interest rates today for the sixth time this year in an effort to boost bank lending and spur sputtering economic growth.
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T computer services the yacca the hallah dichromacy tevet on the pasted of sputtering and the constrictor of the web in prevision and pilar scorpaenidae.
Rational Review
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The fermented drink burned my tongue and I ended up coughing it out, sputtering.
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In this study, prepares c-BN film by a new method, DC magnetic control sputtering method.
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Soon two large, hammy hands clamped down on his flailing fists and pulled him away, gasping and sputtering, his hair hanging in his face.
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As the men obeyed the command to cease firing one would again have been reminded of exploding packs of fire crackers, for the fire died down sputteringly, with here and there another report or two from soldiers who felt that they had a fine bead drawn and ached to "get" another enemy or two.
Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros
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It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything.
Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
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Particularly outstanding is Jim Broadbent, who plays a sputtering drunk with easy stagger.
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He meant to leave town a sputtering, raging man, that minister, -- full of what he called righteous wrath.
Green Valley
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Musetta, looking like an overdressed silent-movie vamp, drives up with her ancient admirer in a sputtering antique automobile.
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Marie Fermoyle turned the sputtering steak, then wiped her eyes with the dish towel.
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These traditionally rural states will continue to struggle, particularly in today's sputtering economy.
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I totally lost my professional cool, sputtering, ‘Is this the way to try to get an interview with me, lady!’
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The mailman would arrive on a motor-scooter, sputtering up the switchbacks of the driveway; the farm plow was horse-drawn.
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Bernanke himself actually accused the Bank of Japan at that time of a "self-induced paralysis" in not providing more stimulus to their sputtering economy, according to Krugman.
Harlan Green: The Fed's Paralysis -- Who Will Do the Right Thing?
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As the aircraft flew over his house, the engine started to cut out and was sputtering.
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The ladies both broke in at this, rather sputteringly, but Cousin
Ruggles of Red Gap
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SHS can also produce artificial bone materials, intermetallic target-sputtering source materials, and the superconducting boride MgB 2.
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Motorists wait in traffic, their sputtering engines coughing a gray haze into the air.
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A whole goat is sputtering over the fire.
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But even after a two-month stump campaign, the Bush plan for private Social Security accounts is sputtering.
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She reached for a pulse as the nurse rolled onto her back, sputtering and gurgling, leaving a hank of hair on the clean tile floor.
DO NO HARM
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sputtering engines
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It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything.
Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
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Ah yes, I can still recall the thundering chorus of coughing and sputtering, the audience storm of noise that almost drowned out Christopher Plummer's poignant finale during King Lear.
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Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.
Chicago Reader
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An unshowy mastery of empathetic guitar-lines lends depth and variety to the rawness: shattering echoes, sinister decayed sputterings, plaintive refrains.
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They made their way back to the door, the fire hissing and sputtering all around them.
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People in sputtering cars roared by, honking, hooting at the cowboy family in the horse-drawn wagon, churning up dust in their faces.
Excerpt: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
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Euro land is sputtering because its anti-Keynesian fiscal and monetary stance is uncalled for and counterproductive.
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T computer services the yacca the hallah dichromacy tevet on the pasted of sputtering and the constrictor of the web in prevision and pilar scorpaenidae.
Rational Review
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He gagged on the sulfur, coughing and sputtering as the smoke stung his throat and lungs.
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'Don't think any one will see it there,' he said, as he cut the candle down a trifle and lit it cautiously with a sputtering sulphur match, part of the spoil from the Turkish sentry.
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
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Now I don't know if the energy distributions of incoming ions, so I don't know how many would be in the typical reflection region (up to say 100 eV for hydrogen) and in the typical sputtering region (up to a few keV).
More Water on the Moon: Second Instrument Confirms Findings | Universe Today
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I wished the print on the tabletop roll and sushi menus hadn't been too small to read in the sputtering light of oil-based votives.
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A bit of audio doctoring mangled Pogue ` s AT&T in sputtering mimicry of a bad connection.
P2pnet World Headlines – May 28, 2009
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In the hearth, the fire had dwindled to a few remaining embers - topaz coals, weakly sputtering thin ribbons of smoke up the chimney.
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Just seems no real cure to seeing the sputtering spile bunged
Think Progress » Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or Somebody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It’
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My only real fear in life - pyrophobia - can be attributed on the one hand to the part-time magician father of a childhood friend who, on the occasion of my third birthday and for reasons I will never understand, set one of my Airedale's Milkbones on a sterling silver platter, and turned it into a sputtering ball of flame with a mere wave of his hand.
Elissa Altman: The Pyrophobic's Guide to Grilling
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The air was chill, the rough-hewn granite walls and vaulted ceiling glittering with moisture, streaked with soot from the sputtering torches in sconces.
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She was still leaning on her elbow, looking around her with a rather discontented face, when some door being opened down stairs, a great noise of hissing and sputtering came to her ears, and presently after there stole to her nostrils a steaming odour of something very savoury from the kitchen.
The Wide, Wide World
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And it is time for him to stop sputtering ill-tempered threats, not only at the judiciary but also at the U.S. Constitution, which he repeatedly has sworn an oath to uphold.
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Khanor was only watching, devoid of emotion, and Brooke could distantly hear Katsi moaning and sputtering in the front seat.
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The nearby streetlamp came on: sputtering pink that steadied to a deepening rosy glow.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Sputtering, he broke the surface, a look of utter shock on his face.
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The eyes of Telenews 'ace reporter and the telephoto lens of his cameraman stared down from a scooter at the furiously smoking, sputteringly incandescent surface of Triplanetary's ancient citadel; while upon dozens of worlds thousands of millions of people packed themselves tighter and tighter around tens of millions of visiplates and loudspeakers in order to see and to hear the tremendous news.
First Lensman
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crazy fiery Chinese fish," also known as filets of salmon, lightly steamed and then doused in soy sauce with scallions and fresh ginger, with a slug of sputtering, near-boiling oil poured over the top.
Orangette
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Japan has resisted structural economic and social reforms that could retool its sputtering economic model.
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In the coating process known as sputtering, which is used widely in research and industry, energetic ions from a plasma slam into a solid, knocking out atoms that then cover nearby surfaces.
Physical Review Focus -
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After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering.
Sunday Reading
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After that bright blaze, some sputtering.
Times, Sunday Times
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The enemy plane, its engine sputtering, lost altitude and turned back toward Pola.
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Daimler's CEO called the sputtering U.S. economic recovery the largest potential risk to the auto industry's strong outlook this year even as the luxury car maker expects to generate more of its profit and sales from China and other emerging markets.
What's News
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Warren saw the expression on her face and I mentally cackled as he immediately started sputtering an apology.
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Marie Fermoyle turned the sputtering steak, then wiped her eyes with the dish towel.
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Which was when I realized I was dressed merely in my underclothing and standing before a strange, sputtering man I had never before seen in my life.
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He tumbled backward with a roar, which, however, was not at all hilarious, and began to dig sputteringly at his tongue and lips, which were liberally coated with cat hair.
Frank Merriwell's Reward
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Aluminum film was grown on modified fluorinated polymer composite films by rf magnetron sputtering.
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The Hershey family name comes from an ancestress who was accused of stealing chocolate by the victim sputtering, Her!
Things You Didn't Know, Halloween Edition
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But what leaves me sputtering in disbelief is that this unfathomably cynical attempt to subvert even the possibility of independent, truth-seeking media is being so abjectly, so supinely accepted.
March 2005
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An errant wave crested over his head, leaving him choking and sputtering for air.
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She was at a loss for words, sputtering incoherently at him.
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The discovery of precious stones, especially emeralds, some few years ago, has still not given out that sputtering spark to Zambia's ailing economy.
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It's the conversational firelighter that sees you through a sputtering 0-0 draw at The Hawthorns.
How I acquired my pub quiz technique | Emma John
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AlN films were prepared on hi alloy substrates by cathode sputtering, and the effect of gas pressure on crystal orientation and residual stress in AlN films was investigated by X-ray diffraction.
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As a sputtering knife-wielding hooligan, she's unfocused rage and violence.
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Roaring's the wrong word - sputtering, perhaps.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sputtering gibberish of a bed-wetting, torture-loving, blood-thirsty moral monster.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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Myrtle turned red, sputtering something that Nick didn't hear.
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Does the knowledge that other people are also sputteringly hostile toward anyone who speaks heresy about the sacredness of diversity lower the chances that you might ever speak up and utter heresy in public?
Matthew Yglesias » Were Mistakes Made?
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She had been spouting and sputtering what she called her righteous indignation for some minutes, when after a brief pause and with the angry expression still on her face she exclaimed: "Well, I don't care, it's all peace within.
Nerves and Common Sense
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We prepared the filters for SEM analysis by sputtering a thin gold film on them.
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Depth crystalline evolution property for microcrystalline Si films deposited by ion beam sputtering was studied.
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Doesn’t even name Corbett; even if it does, I don’t think sputtering is a criminal act.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett Subpoenas Identity of His Critics, for a Criminal Probe
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OTOH, your ongoing dickwaving and purple-faced sputtering is something I enjoy.
A Not-So-Sad Farewell to the "Crocodile Hunter"
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Then mine host sputtering, with a full-mouthed laugh, said to his guest, By
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Only when the two women were helped sputteringly aboard did he interfere.
Further Adventures of Lad
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His flow is rough, but not raspy, and as rapid fire as one can get without sputtering gibberish.