upspring

Example Sentences

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

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

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

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

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 Weir, Arthur

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

From Poems by Stuart, Muriel

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