"Fuming" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... When that was done, and it was obvious to the meanest intelligence that the Wiggle was in terrible danger of capsizing before she started, the stores were unshipped and rearranged under the directions of the fuming Hamilton. ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... her but her husband, who had some talent according to what people said, but who seemed to her rather ordinary! At her son-in-law's expense, she made the trip to Venice and there she stayed for several months, fuming against the city, which she had never visited in her diplomatic travels. The distinguished lady considered that no cities were inhabitable except the capitals that have a court. Pshaw! Venice! A shabby town that no one liked but writers ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... knees; With robes of the bison and swarthy bear, And eagle-plumes in their coal-black hair, And marvelous rings in their tawny ears, Which were pierced with the points of their shining spears. To honor Heyka, Wakwa lifts His fuming pipe from the Red-stone Quarry. [23] The warriors follow. The white cloud drifts From the Council-lodge to the welkin starry, Like a fog at morn on the fir-clad hill, When the meadows are damp ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon
... in this world. Contentment and jollity are not cultivated as they should be. There are too many prematurely-wrinkled long and melancholy faces among us. There is too much swearing, sweating and slashing, fuming, foaming and fretting ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne
... returns definitely, and we obey once more, fuming against those who do not know what they say; and the ebb carries away with it ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
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