Boiling spring

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a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The temperature of the Boiling Spring the same day was 45x, or the warmest of any water tried, though it is the coldest that I know of in summer, when, beside, shallow and stagnant surface water is not mingled with it.
If I were a naturalist, I would tell him that, according to some illustrious men of science, nature has furnished us with instances upon the earth of animals existing under very varying conditions of life; that fish respire in a medium fatal to other animals; that amphibious creatures possess a double existence very difficult of explanation; that certain denizens of the seas maintain life at enormous depths, and there support a pressure equal to that of fifty or sixty atmospheres without being crushed; that several aquatic insects, insensible to temperature, are met with equally among boiling springs and in the frozen plains of the Polar Sea; in fine, that we cannot help recognizing in nature a diversity of means of operation oftentimes incomprehensible, but not the less real.
I, having boiling springs of excitement within myself, am never at a loss for it, and have only to seek serenity.
Eager to protect the mature pine forests in which they nest, the agency recently informed the residents of Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, that it had detected the endangered birds in the vicinity.
Larry Modlin, director of public works for Boiling Spring Lakes, N.C., said that the installation costs associated with concrete pipe put the material out of his budgetary range.
8 kilometers (1/2 mile) of one another near the confluence of Boiling Spring and Choccolocco Creek, one mile southeast of Oxford, Alabama.
Boiling Spring Lakes Police Department, Boiling Spring Lakes
Boiling Springs Savings Bank, one of northern New Jersey's largest savings banks and provider of financial services to individuals and businesses for more than 80 years, announced that moving forward it will be known as Blue Foundry Bank, the company said.
Dennis Ressler of Boiling Springs decided to celebrate his birthday by buying for himself a scratch-off ticket.
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