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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 Victor, Frances Fuller

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 Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

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

From Poems by Stuart, Muriel

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 Sutphen, Van Tassel

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 Perin, Florence Hobart

Dame Venus, awakened from her sleep, From her bed upsprang in haste.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

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

“These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang; out of these incorporeal Members did the Man arise.”

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

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

Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles

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

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 Schauffler, Robert Haven

Throughout this part of the country an autumn gale always results in the upspringing of a forest of young pines, next year, to leeward of a clump of cone-bearing trees.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

"Labor is worship!"—the robin is singing; "Labor is worship!"—the wild bee is ringing; Listen! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out nature's great heart.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

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 Crow, Martha Foote

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 Milton, John

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

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 Milman, Henry Hart

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 Naylor, Robert

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 Munro, Neil




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