springing

• Our merchants, springing, as it were, in a single night from the station of ordinary dealers and dependents on foreign countries to that of arbiters and rulers of the commerce of the globe, were equal to their new position; and our sailors, responsive to their will, gathered with their Briarean arms the wealth of every realm. —  Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
• He manages to increase the plot understanding with words like 'springing' - showing that the tears were almost instant in Laura's eyes. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• He had a way of "springing" pleasant surprises upon people. —  Tom Gerrard
• I turned the paper over and began, "Like a dragon springing--" Good, good--this was the way to start; it would show the readers at once they were dealing with a man of imagination. —  Greener Than You Think
• The severe order of Egypt found its expression in the mighty temples of Karnak; the beauty and lucidity of Grecian thought bodied itself out in the chaste and simple splendor of Grecian buildings; the sternness of Roman law found its ideal expression in those wondrous buildings whose ruins still survive in Rome; the faith of the Middle Ages found its expression in the upward-springing arch of Gothic architecture, and the exquisite tracery of the ornamented building. —  London Lectures of 1907

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