gurgitation

Updated: May 17, 2025

So he took counsel with his percolator, whose bubbling was a sound he found both soothing and stimulating. He regarded it as a kind of private oracle, with a calm voice of its own. He listened attentively as he waited for the liquid to darken. Appeal to the Bishop, Appeal to-the Bishop, seemed to be the speech of the jetting gurgitation under the glass lid.

Christopher Morley - Where the Blue Begins

The soul is a still more tender organism than the body, and it shrinks from the prospect of being subjected to violence. Violence spiritual violence was what our luxurious hero feared; and it is not too much to say that as he lingered there by the sea, late into the night, while the gurgitation of the waves grew deeper to his ear, the prospect came to have an element of positive terror.

Henry James - Confidence