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upspring

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


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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

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 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

Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!

From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

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 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

I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.

From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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

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

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

The simple flowers upspringing, the Gothic lettering, the panelling, and a narrow border of such design as suggests rose-windows or other lace-like carving.

From The Tapestry Book by Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee

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

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

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

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

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




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