afoam

MacTurk, being summoned, came with steed afoam.

1849, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 15, in Shirley, volume 2, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, page 305

“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.”

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 487

Sunday beer / Afoam in silver rumkins

1916, Aldous Huxley, “The Walk”, in Donald Watt, editor, The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley, New York: Harper & Row, published 1971, page 37

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

1998, J. P. Donleavy, Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton,, London: Little, Brown, page 73

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

1896, John Todhunter, “The Fate of the Sons of Usna”, in Three Irish Bardic Tales,, London: J.M.Dent, page 112

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

1933, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 32, in Pat of Silver Bush, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

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.