Sentence:  The child [...] kicked, and crowed, and <WSD>sputtered</WSD>, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.