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Definition of Outspringing
1. outspring [v] - See also: outspring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outspringing
Literary usage of Outspringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"That grand massive Norman interior, with its huge piers, with the round apse of
the choir, and the aisle going all round it, with the outspringing side ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"The heart has tendrils like the vine, Which round another's bosom twine, outspringing
from the living tree Of deeply planted sympathy ; Whose flowers are ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"... the crags and the outspringing pine trees, that loomed dark against the golden
light. A new moon of promise dipped, ready to disappear in the branches, ..."
4. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"... head at the same time came to be protected by the outspringing concave bar,
QR, that now incloses East harbor and its marshes on the southwest side. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"... love, And buds are all outspringing, We'll seek some quiet bank of thyme Where
lights aiid shadows play, And think upon our love's first prime Till ..."
6. Plays by Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"Alas! while she so passing sweet was singing, I saw a red mouse from her mouth
outspringing. MEPHISTOPHELES.—Pooh! on the Brocken that's a thing of course; ..."
7. Songs of the Free and Hymns of Christian Freedom by Maria Weston Chapman (1836)
"THE heart has tendrils like the vine, Which round another's bosom twine, outspringing
from the living tree Of deeply planted sympathy ; Whose flowers are ..."
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