When Idaho said CHOAM, he spoke of a constant ferment, intrigue within intrigue, a play of powers where the shift of one duodecimal point in interest payments could change the ownership of an entire planet.

Travelling again, he passed through Leicester, which he describes as "in a constant ferment", due to "intense distress".

Youth speech, despite its constant ferment, sometimes produces words that stick.

She wondered if he was ever scared, or if having a constant ferment of crazy ideas protected him from fear.

He was also stubborn and independent, a trait that kept the Nhi clan in a constant ferment of plottings and betrayals.

Our world is in constant ferment.

Hence arose quarrels and arguments; and this abortive trial, this unproved accusation, kept the public imagination in a constant ferment.

The whole surface of the monster appeared to be in constant slow ferment, tiny pits, opening and closing as if the flesh were boiling ... except that here the bubbles of air were not forcing their way outward, but were being engulfed at the surface and pressed down into the interior.

But Daphoene was a vessel for an uncountable number of kernels, a constant ferment of flickering fragments.

By the third year of his medical studies at Addis Ababa University, a campus in constant ferment in the mid-70's, he quit and came home to join the guerrillas of Tigre, adopting the nom de guerre Meles.