Afoam

The sea is all afoam.

MacTurk, being summoned, came with steed afoam.

“Well, this old great-grandfather [whale], with the white head and hump, runs all afoam into the pod, and goes to snapping furiously at my fast-line.”

Sunday beer / Afoam in silver rumkins

a tugboat hauling barges, its bow afoam pushing its way through the ripples and waves

mighty horns of ale, and cups of gold afoam / With strong nut-coloured mead

The garden was afoam with starry white cosmos backed by the stately phalanx of the Prince’s Feather.

1988, Charlotte MacLeod (as Alisa Craig), The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke, New York: Avon, Chapter 6, p. 48, […] Minerva […] arrived with a huge armload of costumes, followed by Zilla and a couple more, all afoam with petticoats.

2000, Jan Thornhill, “Extremes” in Drought & Other Stories, Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, p. 126, Margot’s thick black hair afoam with Spic and Span, swooshing back and forth across a grimy kitchen floor