*: The mountain stag that springs / From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
*: She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.
*: Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched—Sabor, the huge lioness—lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground — a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
*: Archer and Jacob jumped up from behind the mound where they had been crouching with the intention of springing upon their mother unexpectedly, and they all began to walk slowly home.
: ux|en|He sprang up from his seat.
: to spring over a fence (in this sense, the verb spring must be accompanied by the preposition over.)
*: She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light.
*: The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
*: North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along.
: ux|en|Trees are already springing up in the plantation.
*: watchful as fowlers when their game will spring
: to spring a pheasant
: to spring a mast or a yard
: to spring in a slat or a bar
*: And sudden light / Sprung through the vaulted roof.
: A bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
: A piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
*: to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth
*: Do not blast my springing hopes.
*: O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
*: [They found] new hope to spring / Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
*: What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, / At whose command we perish, and we spring?
: They sprung an arch over the lintel.
*: I do not know how John and his mistress would have settled the fate of the thief, but just at this moment a policeman entered — for the cook had sprung the rattle, and had been screaming "Murder" and "Thieves."
*: The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
: Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
: I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
: You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
: This water is bottled from the spring of the river.
: the spring of a bow
*: Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
: We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
*: ... discover, at least in some degree, the secret springs and principles, by which the human mind is actuated in its operations?
*: All my springs are in thee.
*: A secret spring of spiritual joy.
*: Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move / The heros glory, or the virgins love.
: rfquotek|Chapman
: rfquotek|Spenser
: rfquotek|Spenser
: rfquotek|Milton
: rfquotek|Beaumont and Fletcher
*: The spring of the day.
*: O how this spring of love resembleth / The uncertain glory of an April day.
: You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
*: I do set my bow in the cloud.
: The musician bowed his violin expertly.
: The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
*: We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness.
*: The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny.
*: Adversities do more bow mens minds to religion.
*: not to bow and bias their opinions
: Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis" bows in Cannes this week.
*: The soldier now blew upon a green whistle, and at once a young girl, dressed in a pretty green silk gown, entered the room. She had lovely green hair and green eyes, and she bowed low before Dorothy as she said, "Follow me and I will show you your room."
: ux|en|That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason.
*: SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.
: ux|en|I bow to your better judgement in the matter.
: He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
: The new product will make its bow on the world market this summer.
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