well forth

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Nay, let them follow: The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither To gnaw their garners.—Worshipful mutineers, Your valour puts well forth: pray follow.

From Coriolanus by Shakespeare, William

And the unknown wayfarer who passes by, wrapped in his thoughts, what does he care for my loftiest conceptions, for the songs that well forth from the depths of my soul?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

In later myth, he is regarded as the horse of the Muses, for it was with a stroke of his hoof that the inspiring fountain Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon, was caused to well forth.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund

She wiped her eyes, but the tears would well forth afresh.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

Eugenie might weep at her ease; she might admire the young and handsome face blotted with grief, the eyes swollen with weeping, that seemed, sleeping as they were, to well forth tears.

From Eugenie Grandet by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott