new-sprung
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of new-sprung
Example Sentences
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Outside, the wind was blowing over a bed of new-sprung mint in the garden, and was suggestively fragrant.
From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
There was still much to be said, and many plans to be discussed before our new-sprung happiness should be secured to us.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
FLOW, Waters! spread afar my zones of green, So I with salt baptismal waves may haunt And bathe the new-sprung continents terrene, Hearing my freshets and young rivers chaunt.
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
I shriek, "nor dare to work my new-sprung mercies wrong!"
From Along the Shore by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
I am quite ashamed of my new-sprung distaste for country life.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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