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upspring

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


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

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

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 Charles Morris

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

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 Frances Fuller Victor

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

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

Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!

From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

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

He ended; at the sound alarm'd upsprang The King, and roused his herald.

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, and from their incorporeal limbs the Man has come forth.

From The Gnôsis of the Light by F. Lamplugh

You tell me that that good ship’s timber never done nothing against winds and weathers since her upspringing, and I’ll confess ye that young Frankie never done nothing neither.

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

But perhaps that very individuality that we blame country life for overdeveloping may be the favorable ground for the upspringing of this noble human blossom.

From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow

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

The lethal side of the created world had become exquisite in his eyes, and the beauty of it was derived from its everlasting corruption, not from the eternal upspringing of life.

From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson

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

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

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

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

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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