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  • verb Present participle of upspring.

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Examples

  • Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v. 244.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And when she gained her castle, upsprang the bridge,

    Idylls of the King 2004

  • Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v. 244.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • And when she gained her castle, upsprang the bridge,

    Idylls of the King Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine.

    Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Spain; and here upsprang, in Spain's better days, a little city, with a small but beautiful palace shaded by enormous trees, where royalty delighted to forget its cares.

    The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

  • It was as large as a small room; three sides of it formed by minute wirework, with occasional draperies of muslin or other slight material, and covered at intervals, sometimes within, sometimes without, by dainty creepers; a tiny cistern in the centre, from which upsprang a sparkling jet.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • It was as large as a small room; three sides of it formed by minute wirework, with occasional draperies of muslin or other slight material, and covered at intervals, sometimes within, sometimes without, by dainty creepers; a tiny cistern in the centre, from which upsprang a sparkling jet.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine.

    A Review of 'Alroy' 1833

  • Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine.

    Chapter 2 - Part I 1822

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