48 Metaphors for springing

She had scarcely numbered twelve Mays, and was at the age when primrosing and violeting have not lost their charms, and when spring is the most welcome, and the dearest of all the four seasons.

The American spring is the least pleasant of its four seasons, its character being truly that of "winter lingering in the lap of May.

Spring with its blossomed fruit trees, and the ungarnered summer, gladdened me; the flame of autumn was my torch of memory, and winter lighted my lamp of solitude.

Round every spring were many graves, built in a peculiar way, and covered eight or ten inches deep by mould.

The Spring, the latest books, the good Captain's rheumatism, were themes of inexhaustible variety.

The early spring is the best season for breeding, as it gives the puppies a start of at least six months in which to grow and get strong before the cold weather sets in, although, of course, they can be bred at any time, but autumn and winter puppies are more troublesome to rear.

This spring, or rather these two springs, are two holes, each about two feet diameter, a stone's cast distant from each other.

'Long de nex' spring, atter de sap 'mence' ter rise, en Henry 'n'int 'is head en sta'ted fer ter git young en soopl, Mars Dugal' up 'n tuk Henry ter town, en sole 'im fer fifteen hunder' dollars.

The largest spring is fifteen to eighteen feet in diameter, and the water boils up like a cauldron from 18 to 30 inches, and one instinctively draws back from the edge as the hot sulphur steam rises around him.

The joys which spring from virtue are an adornment of it, not an enticement to it; they are its result, not its aim.

Spring was backwardas it always is in the mountain districts.

On the slope adjoining the mud spring is another crater of irregular shape, but embracing about one hundred square inches, out of which issues hot vapor, the rocks adjoining changing color under the intense heat with every breath blown upon them.

It mattered not that the corpse of a common rascally valet lay under that pall; it mattered not that a grotesque error was being enacted; it mattered not whether the actuating spring of the immense affair was the Dean's water-colouring niece or the solemn deliberations of the Chapter; it mattered not that newspapers had ignobly misused the name and honour of art for their own advancementthe instant effect was overwhelmingly impressive.

The leading spring of his life was egotism.

But none is clean: the moving sand is infected with lice; the pure spring, where it bursts out of the mountain, is a mere issue of worms; even in the hard rock the crystal is forming.

But these springs are only another proof of his love and power, in touching the hearts of his children to help others.

The spring of action which, perhaps more than any other, characterised the whole train of my life, was curiosity.

The marble spring is a charming trysting-place!

The spring which moves the genius to elaborate his works is not fame, for that is too uncertain a quality, and when it is seen at close quarters, of little worth.

Every kind of love, however ethereal it may seem to be, springs entirely from the instinct of sex; indeed, it is absolutely this instinct, only in a more definite, specialised, and perhaps, strictly speaking, more individualised form.

"And now that Spring is master, let us be Content, and laugh, as anciently in spring The battle-wearied Tristan laughed, when he Was come again Tintagel-ward, to bring Glad news of Arthur's victoryand see Ysoude, with parted lips, that waver and cling.

The spring is the beginning of a river.

Certainly, thought I to myself, here is the famous spring; a brook that Wordsworth must have known, and that may have been the centre of memory to him in his description of those early Hawkshead days, with its metaphor of fountain life.

Now that Spring is Here VII.

The spring and summer had been anxious times enough in Quebec.

48 Metaphors for  springing