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upspring

[uhp-spring, uhp-spring] / ʌpˈsprɪŋ, ˈʌpˌsprɪŋ /


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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 Weir, Arthur

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

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

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

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 Sutphen, Van Tassel

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

Amazed, upsprang Achilles, clash'd aloud125 His palms together, and thus, sad, exclaim'd.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

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

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

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

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

Among all the good things that may come in the new upspringing of this artistic interest, the young women in the rural realm have a distinct function.

From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote

"Labor is worship!"—the robin is singing; "Labor is worship!"—the wild bee is ringing; Listen! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out nature's great heart.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

They do not crown a column or trail themselves in foliated scrolls; but are just as Nature meant them to be, unaffected bits of colour and grace, upspringing from the sod.

From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.

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 Thackeray, Miss

Press on! strong plumed! on tireless wing upspringing, Thy course be ever toward the empyrean; And at thy side my bonded spirit winging, Will mount with thee till thy high goal be won!

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 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

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 Milman, Henry Hart

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

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 Barnes, William

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




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