"Spring up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had got rid of one opponent only to have a dozen others spring up. There was a throng about him as he shook himself free, a throng that closed in, shouting, cursing. For a moment things looked serious. Fred now understood these people thought he was a spy. And he could guess that it would go hard with him if he didn't get away. He forgot everything but that, ...
— The Boy Scouts In Russia • John Blaine
... of strong feeling I advanced to take it. I had not counted on such a reception. I had not expected any bond of congeniality to spring up between this high-feeling English girl and myself to make my purpose hateful to me. Yet, as I stood there looking down at her bright if wasted face, I felt that it would be very easy to love so gentle and cordial a being, and dreaded raising my eyes to the gentleman ...
— The Woman in the Alcove • Anna Katharine Green
... little; but said no more, and Elizabeth could not. Then he left the room and she heard him going down stairs! Her first thought was to spring up and go after to help him to whatever he wanted; then she remembered that he and Clam could manage it without her, and that he would certainly choose to have it so. She curled herself up on her sofa and laying ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... to spring up "By—!" he exclaimed. "I thought the electric bulbs in the office felt warm, as if they had recently been burning—Rochester must have been there ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... newly raised, that the stumps of the forest-trees are not only still surrounding the houses, but remain standing in the cellars, you will find every luxury that can be required. It may be asked what becomes of all these goods. It must be recollected that hundreds of new houses spring up every year in the towns, and that the surrounding country is populous and wealthy. In the farmhouses—mean-looking and often built of logs—is to be found not only ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
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