up-gushing

Once, on a summer noonday, when the pool was all of a quiver with golden light, and he lay with slow-waving fins close to the coldest up-gushing of the spring which cooled his lair, the shining roof of his realm had been shattered and upheaved with a tremendous splash.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The well-spring of eloquence, when up-gushing as the very water of life, quenches the thirst of myriads of men, like the smitten rock of the wilderness reviving the life of desert wanderers.

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

The up-gushing water had now again taken the shape of a man in a long, white, fleecy robe, who appeared to be making gestures of welcome.

Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

From the tip of the roof to the secret subterranean shrine to Set, the Snake God, the Badwulf household, so like your own, is filled with the up-gushing social consciousnessidness (some spell this word consciousnessedness be sure to enter this spelling irregularity into your user’s spelling database in your Blackberry) of the horrible implausibility of Boiling Rain.

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