ripraps

Updated: May 9, 2025

And at sight of him Marielihou ruffled and swelled to twice her size, and raked up most horrible and blood-curdling oaths from away down in her inside into her black throat, and spat them out at him, as he came up, in a fusillade that sounded like ripraps, and her eyes flamed baleful fires. "Cuss away, y'ould witch!" said old Tom, with a grin through his pipe-stem.

John Oxenham - Pearl of Pearl Island