foam-dripping

Updated: July 12, 2026

On, past the clubs, through the street vocal with the clanking stamp of the horses' hoofs horses with shining flanks, who cocked their ears, and tossed their foam-dripping mouths as they passed the water-trough.

George Lynch - Impressions of a War Correspondent

They picture officers of the law as human bulldogs, with undershot, foam-dripping jaws and bloodshot eyes. The bourne from which so many travellers never return bounded by the criminal statutes, is a terra incognita to the average citizen.

Arthur Cheney Train - The Confessions of Artemas Quibble : Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"