new-sprung
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of new-sprung
Example Sentences
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If she have a thought about her sister’s new-sprung happiness, it is only to measure it against her own misery—to contrast its light of joy, with the shadow surrounding herself.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
A piece of information reached me, that, if true, must sweep all these new-sprung theories out my mind.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
Rive its dry bones, and with new force A new-sprung world inform!
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
I shriek, "nor dare to work my new-sprung mercies wrong!"
From Along the Shore by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
But his voice had the tremulous note of excitement in it and his hands fumbled nervously, touching evidence of the agitated gropings of his mind in the faint, perhaps illusory, light of a new-sprung hope.
From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham
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