upspring
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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
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
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 Florence Hobart Perin
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
The King doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
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.
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
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
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
Dame Venus, awakened from her sleep, From her bed upsprang in haste.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
He could see the clean upspringing of her dark lashes, the little whisps of hair against her temple and ear.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
Measures so violent and radical could hardly have been prompted by anything less alarming than the upspringing of that indomitable conviction which worked at the heart of the people.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
With the upspringing of the wind at dawn, that calling of the sea had made itself heard to Richard.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
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
I was certainly ill, no, not ill, but completely tired out body and mind, so that even my ever upspringing soul was inert and indifferent.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 Miles Franklin
He ceased: from all around upsprung A murmur of applause; For well had truth and freedom's tongue Maintained their holy cause.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
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
