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in a foam
- (idiomatic, dated, literary) Foaming at the mouth.
1716, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Dryden, Richard Graham, Roger de Piles, The Art of Painting, page 54:But that Poet was always in a foam at his ſetting out, even before the Motion of the Race had warm'd him.
1730, Sollom Emlyn, Thomas Salmon (contributors), A Complete Collection of State-trials, and Proceedings for High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours: 1685-1696, page 560:Yes, the ſecond time he ſaid, that he met the King's guards that were come back all in a foam
1792, Samuel Richardson, The History of Clarissa Harlowe, in a Series of Letters, Volume 6, page 109:Horſe and man were in a foam.
1842, J.S. Redfield (publisher), Two Hundred Pictorial Illustrations of the Holy Bible ... Compiled Principally from the Notes to the London Pictorial Bible. Third Series, page 172:while the horses and mares were all in a foam, and scarcely able to breathe;