339 Verbs to Use for the Word sprung

Try as I would, however, I could not find the spring, and I had at last to leave Lady Studley's room and go back to the one occupied by her husband, by the ordinary door.

He takes from the top drawer a pistol-case, which he has evidently handled before, as he touches the spring at once.

The young man, panting for breath and plunging headlong forward, whispers loud, "Pray tell me, are you a woman or an evil spirit to lure me away?" Turning on heels firmly planted in the earth, the woman gives a wild spring forward, like a panther for its prey.

He pressed the spring, and the lid flew free.

Both men stepped quickly forward, but all of the onlookers thought they saw rather more spring in Dave Darrin than in his more bulky opponent.

Yet unless my Vindaraja I could look upon awhile, As some traveller in a desert I should perish for her smile; For 'tis longing for her presence makes the spring of life to me, And allays the secret suffering none except her eye can see.

She reached the little wayside spring before even the early-rising mountain folk were abroad, found three pink blossoms in full perfection, plucked them and wrapped them carefully in damp cloths disposed in a little hickory basket that Uncle Pros had made for her years ago.

And then he goes on, his rheumy-red eyes blinking, to proclaim that he is feeling a whole lot stronger these days, that he is getting his second wind, so to speak; that come mid-spring he'll be as frisky as a colt, and that then he means to have what is his own!

Expert thieves have been known to open handcuffs without a key, by means of knocking the part containing the spring on a stone or hard substance.

Ali discovered a spring.

"Go back in the spring, find out where she is, and" "I've spent every spring and every summer, every fall and every winter till this one, trying to do just that thing.

Until another hand Brought spring into the land, And went the seasons' pace.'

Let me tell you first about those barnacles that clog the wheels of society by poisoning the springs of rectitude with their upas-like eye.

Here they passed the spring, and following a path which led from it, turned the edge of the rocks, and ascended to the foot of the stockades.

I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.

"Oh, call me not, oh, call me not, thou voice of other years, The fire that flames within my heart has dried the spring of tears.

Nobody ventures to say how infrequently and at what hour the small fry visit the spring.

It is called Yingchun, that is, meeting the spring, to-morrow, when the sun enters the 15º of Aquarius, being considered the commencement of the spring season.

Havant is, in spite of the modern world, a place of miracle; for it possesses a spring to the south-west of the church, called, I think, St Faith's, which never fails in summer for drought, nor in winter for frost.

So Beltane took hold upon the great sword, felt the spring and balance of the blade and viewed it up from glittering point to plain and simple cross-guard.

Towards the extremity of this province, there are many large lakes, having salt springs on their banks, and when the water of these springs reaches the lake, it coagulates into hard salt like ice.

"I've broken the spring of my watch, and I have to meet father at the station at ten-fifteen.

Behind the house bubbled a big spring which irrigated the orchard and garden.

It is a good thing, too, that since the date of Easter Day is among those known as "movable," it means the real spring, but a little farther north or farther south, as the years come and go.

As we approached the spring a small party of blacks shouted to us from the summit of one of the hills, but did not descend to us, though we halted till 12.30 p.m., and then resumed our route, reaching the camp at 4.0, and found the party all well; the horse-meat quite dry and fit for carriage.

339 Verbs to Use for the Word  sprung