"Lathery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... carpet then he rolled And brushed against the wall, And, horror! whisked his lathery sides On overcoat ...
— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field
... on, lumbering awkwardly in a half-hearted gallop, as if they had very little energy left. Their tongues protruded, their mouths dribbled a lathery foam, and their rough, sweaty hides told Val of the long chase—for she was wiser in the ways of the range land than she had been. She stood back, gently waving her ruffled white apron at them, ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... he said, in a rather lathery voice, "you're accepted, you know. Where's the—the ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... things, and thumb-nails bordered with inveterate black, like broad beans ripe for planting, shone through a hubbub of snowy froth; while sluicing and wringing and rinsing went on over the bubbled and lathery turf; and every handy bush or stub, and every tump of wiry grass, was sheeted with white, like a ship in full sail, and ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore |
