If we'd dropped in later, we might have found it sleeping in a spit bubble that acts as a flight trigger should a predator break the shell.

The baby, a girl named Marcy, was cooing and blowing little spit bubbles.

She blew a spit bubble.

Janeway traced the subtle brow ridges with a finger, smiled as the baby blew a spit bubble, kissed the little hand, and handed the girl back to her mother.

Mary observed that his lips were cracked and without colour, a thin line of white spit bubbles stretching the length of his mouth.

A three-month-old boy of placid temperament, he looked up at me with mild bewilderment, but seemed not to object to the substitution, merely blowing a few thoughtful spit bubbles in my direction.

Wilhite--pale, popping spit bubbles.

Barty cooed and blew a spit bubble.