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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

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

But perhaps that very individuality that we blame country life for overdeveloping may be the favorable ground for the upspringing of this noble human blossom.

From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow

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

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

He could see the clean upspringing of her dark lashes, the little whisps of hair against her temple and ear.

From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner

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

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

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

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

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