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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Spattering
 
  Spattering off in a steady stream, like a buck-shot spilling from a canister.
            —Irvin S. Cobb		  1
  Lightning spattered the sky as a thrown egg spatters a barn door.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  2
 
 
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