upspring
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Behold I touch his heart, and there upspring Blooms to his cheeks, and flashes to his eyes; His scornful lips upon the instant sing, And all his pulses leap with ecstasies.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller
To feel the new life flutter mystic wing; Like to a lark to feel one's soul upspring, Transpierce the very limit of the sky, And toss its challenge to Eternity!
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?
From Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
From The Summons by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 by Various
These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang, and from their incorporeal limbs the Man has come forth.
From The Gnôsis of the Light by Lamplugh, F.
She upsprang, she rose upright, in his selle she sate in sight, By her love she overcame.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Straight to his feet It rolled, the rounded ivory, and upsprang From off the polished marble with a clang That seemed to say 'twas minded him to greet.
When the battle-cry rang, Hey! how the gray youth to the saddle upsprang!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
And then the upspringing of that blessed breeze off the land that saved it for her.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
We announce to them the dawning of that day for which they have so hopefully and so bravely waited, the upspringing of those seeds that they and their compeers have sown.
From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey
What thoughts filled that young head—what contemplation took the place of what should have been the vineffable upspringing of childish emotion—what complaint or questioning were living behind that white face—no one could guess.
From The Literary World Seventh Reader by Metcalf, John Calvin
So did he speak; and upspringing anon, swift-footed Achilles Slaughter'd a white-wool'd sheep, and his followers skinn'd it expertly.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
Their restless upspringing life thrust my paralysis aside as an upspringing young tree cleaves the boulder which would hamper it.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung; Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round.
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
Behind, In diamond light, upsprung the dazzling Cones Of Pyramids, as far surpassing Earth's As Heaven than Earth is fairer.
From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Fond helianthus turned her fervent face, Meek antirrhinum paled and grew apace; Late dandelions, robed in cloth of gold, With golden-rod, upsprung from out the mould, And pensive, gold-eyed daisies pranked the wold.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
But probably they each had had their chance of love, and the old bitterness upsprung that mine had not fallen athwart my pathway.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles
They swam into her recognition like wraiths upsprung, as it were, from the sand itself or exhaled upon a breath from the sea: at first she could not credit her vision.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil