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Definition of Outsprung
1. outspring [v] - See also: outspring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outsprung
Literary usage of Outsprung
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"and the phantoms outsprung In skeleton roundel advancing, The rich and the poor,
and the old and the young, But the winding-sheets hinder'd their dancing. ..."
2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"Her eyes did soak The parched cloak Which Tellus then had on, The grass outsprung
From clay was clung, At fall of Phaeton. 1120 LXXI Thus parted, ..."
3. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1863)
"... with purpling clusters hung; And fountains four, in even order set, Near one
another from the stone outsprung, Streaming four ways their crystal-showery ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1818)
"... tears outsprung, ‘ (arms flung *, She rose, and round her sire her white And
met his press, fond, deeply, silently; Pleasure may smile, ..."
5. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"From the shoulders of these a hundred hands outsprung to all alike, and to each
fifty heads grew from their shoulders over their sturdy limbs. ..."
6. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1840)
"... launching his spear, it pierced her wrist, inflicting a wound from which
outsprung the "blood immortal,"16 the dew-bright fluid that 14 Homeri Ilias et ..."
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