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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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
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 Scheffauer, Herman George
The drizzle had developed into a fine, driving rain that swept aslant upon the wings of a new-sprung breeze.
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
In the next instant, however, I changed my mind; and my new-sprung joy departed as suddenly as it had arisen.
From The Boy Tar by Read, Edward
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