upspring
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Unfold, upspring, outblossom from the dust, O divinest playfellow even as we!
From Poems by Muriel Stuart
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
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
“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
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, and from their incorporeal limbs the Man has come forth.
From The Gnôsis of the Light by F. Lamplugh
And as pain and sorrow mark the diminution, the joy of living and the upspringing of happiness signify the increase of energy....
From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler
The olive-tree is placed between them, and Poseidon controls, with his left hand, the upspringing horse.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
Stories like these would take us trailing across the country from Maine to California and would leave us bewildered before the upspringing of new life everywhere in the energies of the young women of America.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
So did he speak; and upspringing anon, swift-footed Achilles Slaughter'd a white-wool'd sheep, and his followers skinn'd it expertly.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
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
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
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
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
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