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
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
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
"Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope.
From The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
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 William Cowper
“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
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
Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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.
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
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
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
It was of tin only, and in the eyes of the sailor gazing at it with upspringing hope it seemed frail, insecurely fastened, perhaps rotten.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
"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
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
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
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