upspring
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And Commerce, universal king, Has followed with unnumbered needs, And scatters everywhere the seeds Of towns that in a night upspring.
From Fleurs De Lys, and Other Poems by Arthur Weir
See how Time, consoling, Dries the saddest tears, Bids the darkest storm-clouds Pass in gentle rain; While upspring in glory, Flowers and dreams again!
From Legends and Lyrics Part 1 by Charles Dickens
The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
The King doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
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
Dame Venus, awakened from her sleep, From her bed upsprang in haste.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
“These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang; out of these incorporeal Members did the Man arise.”
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead
She upsprang, she rose upright,—in his selle she sate in sight, By her love she overcame.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
Paul felt a sudden chill—the upspringing fountain of his gladness was checked in mid-leap.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
When Bharadvája, saint austere, Saw good Vaśishṭha drawing near, He cried, upspringing from his seat, “The grace-gift bring, my friend to greet.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
And then the upspringing of that blessed breeze off the land that saved it for her.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
It would not be death—that is the relief of weaker natures—but relentless life—life full of those torturing agonies that trample every upspringing joy from the heart.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
It was a goodly sight,—that plowed land with its lines of upspringing seeds.
From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett
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
Above the beäten mwold upsprung The driven doust, a-spreadën light, An' on the new-leav'd thorn, a-hung, Wer wool a-quiv'rèn white; An' corn, a sheenèn bright, did bow, On slopèn Meldon's zunny brow.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
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
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
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