ebullitions

See also: ébullitions

English

Noun

ebullitions

  1. plural of ebullition
    • 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
      "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
    • 1905, Selous, Edmund, 16px Wikisource logo The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 71:
      "...it is apparent to me that these little ebullitions, or whatever they may be called, of the black guillemots are of a blended nature..."
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