upspring
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Thou darest not say I love, and yet thou lovest, And think'st to crush the mighty yearning down, That in thy spirit shall upspring forever!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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
Each new morn the world is greener; Age forgets its shriveled years In the warmth and life upspringing Out from Winter's chill and tears.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
Nevertheless, the upspringing as by magic of the great city of Johannesberg in the midst of the dreary veldt filled Kruger's soul with loathing.
From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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