But all I seem to remember is the dramatic splash of the deep purple bouganvillea against the blinding white of the house, the green, perfectly manicured lawns and the chit-chit-chit of the hose spitting stingy jets of water somewhere in the garden.

If provoked or threatened, it will raise its forebody, spread its hood and readily spit jets of venom at the face of its predator or threat.

Banded archerfish have mouths adapted to spit jets of water over distance, usually to knock prey into the water.

This ray has also been known to excavate large pits by undulating its disc and spitting jets of water, so as to uncover buried prey.

CHAPTER XVII Crypt of the Old Ones SPITTING jets of yellow flame, the Comet screamed down through the thin atmosphere of Black Moon, and scudded low across the face of the shadowy satellite.

On every side, low-orbital satellites hung near him, spitting invisible jets of destruc- tion upon the puny humans far below.

The frog men of the Delta were gray, with yellow carnivorous teeth, and they spat jets of venom.

Crowded in next to them were frontiersmen and Piedmontese with coon-skin caps and leather jackets, promiscuously spitting jets of tobacco; in such close quarters, they often missed their target, dirtying many an expensive London jacket.

A short passage leads to a small second chamber and to a third which has a central fountain with Giambologna's Venus in the centre of the basin, peering fearfully over her shoulder at the four satyrs spitting jets of water at her from the edge.