14 examples of springe in sentences
This was the site of the "watering of Saint Thomas": A-morwe, whan that day bigan to springe, Up roes our host, and was our aller cok, And gadrede us togirde, alle in a flok,
With hairy springes, we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
If any of my bird-like thoughts from joy's branch flew, Back from the springes of thy lock their fleeting wings I drew.
Harvard Advocate. ~A Rambling Rhyme of Dorothy.~ When ye Crocuss shews his heade & ye Wyndes of Marche have flede, Springe doth come, and happylye Then I thinke of Dorothy.
I, Springes to catch Woodcocks.
H. P. was read by Philip Bliss into Henry Parrot, who published a collection of epigrams in 1613, as "Laquei Ridiculosi, or Springes for Woodcocks."
That which the earthe Dothe forebidd none, and freely yelds to all, A little fayre springe water.
Map and Plans Dear hills do lift their heads aloft From whence sweet springes doe flow
Daphnis, thou slumberest on the leaf-strown lea, Thy frame at rest, thy springes newly spread O'er the fell-side.
Pit-falls, stake-nets, and springes do not kill.
"Springe is ycomen in, Dappled lark singe; Snow melteth, Runnell pelteth, Smelleth winde of newe buddinge.
[Footnote A: As the reader of German may be curious to see a specimen of the original, we give this last passage, which contains, in a brief compass, many distinctive features of the Alemannic dialect: "Nei so lucg me doch, wie cha mi Meiddeli springe!
Thou hast e'en set a springe to catch thy own neck.
Ere I had told Ten birth-days, [Z] when among the mountain slopes Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, [a] 'twas my joy With store of springes o'er my shoulder hung 310 To range the open heights where woodcocks run Along the smooth green turf.