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Updated: June 4, 2025
"When Aunt Boynton was first sick she stayed in bed more, and Ivory and I hadn't got used to things. One morning we bound up each other's burns. Ivory had three fingers and I two, done up in buttery rags to take the fire out. Ivory called us 'Soldiers dressing their Wounds after the Battle. Sausages spatter dreadfully, don't they? And when you turn a pancake it flops on top of the stove.
"A gust of wind; a spatter of rain; perhaps a dash of hail; then, of a sudden, a sky so calm and peaceful one would wonder how it ever could have been disturbed." Even as he spoke the house shivered in every timber as the gale struck it and went whining by. He rushed to the whim-room, but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
On a small knoll the American senator and his two daughters, glasses in hand, were watching, listening, semi-oblivious as to any possible danger to themselves. Finally a spatter of bullets and shell fragments roused the father to a sense that more than himself might be in the line of fire at any moment. "This won't do, girls!" he announced in peremptory tones.
It was only then that he heard the spatter of rifle fire and understood that they were in the middle of an exchange of lead slugs. "Keep down!" Anse, his voice ragged with anger, snapped the command in Drew’s ear. "What in thunder you tryin’ to do? You gone completely loco, amigo? Walkin’ right out to git yourself shot like them bullets was nothin’ but pecans or somethin’ like!"
Instantly, too, three others spoke, aimed at her flash and she heard the spatter of lead against stone nearby. In the confined space the fusillade bellowed blatantly, and slowly diminishing echoes lingered after the firing itself ceased. Then once more the silence which was more trying than gunnery settled. Slowly an idea dawned in the girl's mind, and strengthened into conviction.
Overhead in the great empty drawing-room the noise of the wind and rain, the almost continuous spatter on the glass, and the long hooting of the gusts, had been far more noticeable than in the basement beneath.
At dinner-tables or social gatherings, in churches and king's courts, in public carriage or public flyboat, scandal pursues me, and calumny defiles my name. Every goose now hisses at Erasmus; and it is worse than being stoned, once for all, like Stephen, or shot with arrows like Sebastian. 'They attack me now even for my Latin style, and spatter me with epigrams.
Parson Capen's speech was sharp. He did not spill over on every occasion. He had no little spurts of wit like a spatter of water on a hot stove, but when he let out his joke it went off like a percussion cap.
"Lady S. Yes, a tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prude as a fever to those of the strongest constitutions; but there is a sort of sickly reputation that outlives hundreds of the robuster character of a prude. "Spat. "Lady S. But, Spatter, I have something of greater confidence now to entrust you with. I think I have some claim to your gratitude. "Spat.
Trimm's eyes Meyers vanished, tumbling forward out of sight as the car floor buckled under his feet. Then, as everything the train, the earth, the sky all fused together in a great spatter of white and black, Mr. Trimm, plucked from his seat as though a giant hand had him by the collar, shot forward through the air over the seatbacks, his chained hands aloft, clutching wildly.
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