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The King doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.

From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson

With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both forepaws on the table and barked at the waiter.

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.

From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Thou darest not say I love, and yet thou lovest, And think'st to crush the mighty yearning down, That in thy spirit shall upspring forever!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

There was the banded hair over the eyes, the slightly drooping mouth, the peculiar upspring of the eyebrow arch—the Queen of Spades in person, as Indiman had said.

From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen

I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.

From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

He therefore, the Life-lord, The Wielder of glory, world's worship he gave him: Brim Beowulf waxed, and wide the weal upsprang Of the offspring of Scyld in the parts of the Scede-lands.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

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 F. Lamplugh

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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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 Hamilton Wright Mabie

The young god, emerging from the spires of rock, round which a serpent coils itself, is the first radiance of the upspringing sun, as on high, lonely peaks it flashes and broadens to the dawn.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill

And as pain and sorrow mark the diminution, the joy of living and the upspringing of happiness signify the increase of energy....

From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

An emblem fair of Lavengro,   Thou art in all thy brave upbringing; Obscure, he wandered to and fro,   Wrote joy on earth by faith upspringing.

From Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 by James Hooper

At the thought quick upspringing into her two grey eyes came the tears, sparkling like the diamonds in Rhoda's cross.

From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray

It was conspicuous for its absence of upspringing delicacy, light, arch merriment.

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

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 Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

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

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 John Milton

Then from the agitated deep upsprung The legion of Apsarasas, so named That to the watery element they owed Their being.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

Wistfulness upsprung as I reviewed my empty life, but rude reality suddenly uprose and obliterated ideality.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin