"Springe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... skill of Hokosa is great, and well he knows how to set a snare; but I think that if by his counsel I should springe the bird, he will be too clever a man to keep upon the threshold of my throne. He who sets one snare may set twain, and he who sits by the threshold may desire to enter the house of kings wherein there is no space for two ...
— The Wizard • H. Rider Haggard
... our Saxon woodcock in the springe, But he begins to flutter. As I think He was thine host in England when I went ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... clay Under the hedge, to shelter him in rain. And then he took for very idleness To making traps to catch the plunderers, All sorts of cunning traps that boys can make— Propping a stone to fall and shut them in, Or crush them with its weight, or else a springe Swung on a bough. He made them cleverly— And I, poor foolish woman! I was pleased To see the boy so handy. You may guess What followed Sir from this unlucky skill. He did what he should not when he was older: I warn'd him oft enough; but he was caught In wiring ...
— Poems, 1799 • Robert Southey
... springe set to catch Overbury? The answer to the question, whether yes or no, hardly matters. Since he was gull enough to discard the man whose brain had lifted him from a condition in which he was hardly better than the King's lap-dog, ...
— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure
... Crocuss shews his heade & ye Wyndes of Marche have flede, Springe doth come, and happylye Then I ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles |
