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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of upspring.

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Examples

  • They swam into her recognition like wraiths upsprung, as it were, from the sand itself or exhaled upon

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • Wistfulness upsprung as I reviewed my empty life, but rude reality suddenly uprose and obliterated ideality.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • But probably they each had had their chance of love, and the old bitterness upsprung that mine had not fallen athwart my pathway.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • His course of action, likewise that of his friends, permitted him little obscurity, and when the rumors of his finally obtaining lodging at Beaver Beach, and of the celebration of his installation there, were presently confirmed, he stood in the lime-light indeed, as a Mephistopheles upsprung through the trap-door.

    The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

  • His course of action, likewise that of his friends, permitted him little obscurity, and when the rumors of his finally obtaining lodging at Beaver Beach, and of the celebration of his installation there, were presently confirmed, he stood in the lime-light indeed, as a Mephistopheles upsprung through the trap-door.

    The Conquest of Canaan 1905

  • In the Man-Soul, till these had upsprung as if gods.

    Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success 1884

  • The whole scene seems Faery; or rather it enters now into our hearts to conceive how "the verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung."

    HAITI 1842

  • Each cavalier spurred forward; when suddenly, a shower of darts and arrows rattled on their armour; and upsprung from bush and reeds, and rocky clift, a number of Moors, and with wild shouts swarmed around the

    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Each cavalier spurred forward; when suddenly, a shower of darts and arrows rattled on their armour; and upsprung from bush and reeds, and rocky clift, a number of Moors, and with wild shouts swarmed around the

    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And chirping from the ground the grasshopper upsprung.

    Poems William Cullen Bryant 1836

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