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Definition of Headsprings
1. headspring [n] - See also: headspring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headsprings
Literary usage of Headsprings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...by John Howard Brown by John Howard Brown (1904)
"... a commissioner of the crown for defining the western limit of the Northern
Necks, and with Peter Jefferson surveyed the land from the headsprings of the ..."
2. Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report by Chile (1901)
"«5o CONSIDERATION OF THE PRECEDENTS between the headsprings of rivers. The Tribunal
has been shown, however, that the expression " vertientes que se ..."
3. A commentary on the Psalms of David [tr. based on that of A. Golding]. by Jean [comms. on the Bible] Calvin (1840)
"The Hebrew word D^Btf, which I have translated headsprings, properly signifies
channels; nevertheless it is not to be doubted that in this place David means ..."
4. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1863)
"... of Plato and the judicious utilitarianism of Aristotle, " i maestri di color
che sanno," the two headsprings of ethical as of all other philosophy. ..."
5. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1874)
"... of Plato and the judicious utilitarianism of Aristotle, ' i maestri di color
che sanno,' the two headsprings of ethical as of all other philosophy. ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"... Itasca basin from the sources of the Red River of the north on the one hand,
and from the headsprings of tributaries of the Mississippi on the other. ..."
7. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"... to its headsprings in the Alleghanies, no standard floated but that of France."
1 There seemed little reason to doubt that the French empire in America, ..."
8. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"... equally tef the lofty inspiration of Plato and the judicious utilitarianism
of Aristotle, the two headsprings of ethical as tf all other philosophy. ..."
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