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upspring

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


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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

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

The King doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.

From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson

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

Unfold, upspring, outblossom from the dust, O divinest playfellow even as we!

From Poems by Muriel Stuart

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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!

From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

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

From The Gnôsis of the Light by F. Lamplugh

Thou givest the word, and the westering Star, The Hesper who watched o'er Night's upspringing, Changing his course, shines eastward far, Phosphor now, for the Sun's inbringing.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

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

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

I am only an old man who has watched the upspringing of a new and terrible force in European politics.

From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

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

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

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

They swam into her recognition like wraiths upsprung, as it were, from the sand itself or exhaled upon a breath from the sea: at first she could not credit her vision.

From Doom Castle by Neil Munro

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




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