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upspring

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


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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

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

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

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

There was the banded hair over the eyes, the slightly drooping mouth, the peculiar upspring of the eyebrow arch—the Queen of Spades in person, as Indiman had said.

From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen

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

From Poems by Muriel Stuart

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

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; out of these incorporeal Members did the Man arise.”

From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead

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

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

With the upspringing of the wind at dawn, that calling of the sea had made itself heard to Richard.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet

At the thought quick upspringing into her two grey eyes came the tears, sparkling like the diamonds in Rhoda's cross.

From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray

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

Let me with my heart today, Holy, holy, holy, singing, Rapt awhile from earth away, All my soul to Thee upspringing, Have a foretaste inly given, How they worship Thee in heaven.

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

Measures so violent and radical could hardly have been prompted by anything less alarming than the upspringing of that indomitable conviction which worked at the heart of the people.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

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

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

Fond helianthus turned her fervent face, Meek antirrhinum paled and grew apace; Late dandelions, robed in cloth of gold, With golden-rod, upsprung from out the mould, And pensive, gold-eyed daisies pranked the wold.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various




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