Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...once have such ideas," the Senior went on, just glancing at me, "but then, you know, Mrs. - , one outgrows such fancies by the end of his first or second year." Hereupon I collapsed, and remained silently listening to the following dialogue which sprang up, when the Senior continued...
...boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place of refuge a congenial home, and has ever since resided in the western portion of Long Island...
...they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation that even the divine power of the gods could not of itself raise them. When Munnee and Boshor discovered this, they spat upon the earth, and a great river sprang forth which divided the world into two parts. On one side of the river they placed all the men, and upon the other side all the women. Munnee then took his place among the women, and Boshor among the men. At the end of a year the miraculous power...
Behold us at sea. The second day out the great American Humbug broke her screw, and also sprang a leak, because one of the side plates had not been properly fastened...
When a wolf sprang from its lair...