Some at the tables are struggling to write cheques, with continual jogs at the elbow, with ink that will not flow, pens that scratch and splutter, blotting-paper that smudges and blots.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Out at the yard-arm there came a splutter of a match, and then, straightaway, a great spurt of fire as the flare took light.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
Gebhr began to tug and, if the boy had seized him by the hand, he would have freed it at once, but it was not so easy with the sleeve; so he began to tug, and splutter with a voice stifled with fury.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz