The younger actor was charming and engaging but before long she felt a member of a distant audience — she and the couple sat passively before him as he paced the hardwood floor — merely a group to try new-sprung techniques upon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sais new-sprung romance with her handsome tutor, their lives descend into chaos. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sitting cross-legged, Yehoshua casts a giant's shadow on the new-sprung grass, littered with the decayed remnants of olives missed in the last harvest. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront their colliding interests. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This new-sprung feeling arrived as much as a surprise to Ermila as her disappointment in having to wait yet again, and she stood in line shivering. ❋ Helena María Viramontes (2007)
She bows her head, the new-sprung flower to smell, ❋ Unknown (2004)
The forest was dressed in green; the young calves frisked on the new-sprung grass; the wind-winged shadows of light clouds sped over the green cornfields; the hermit cuckoo repeated his monotonous all-hail to the season; the nightingale, bird of love and minion of the evening star, filled the woods with song; while Venus lingered in the warm sunset, and the young green of the trees lay in gentle relief along the clear horizon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He looked on political freedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; and thus any new-sprung hope of liberty inspired a joy and an exultation more intense and wild than he could have felt for any personal advantage. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Pohatan threw his massive bulk at the figure, only to run headlong into a dense grove of new-sprung spruce that hadn't been there when he'd started his charge. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2002)
Fortunately, at that moment we passed a tree, beneath which I spied something that might have been a clump of new-sprung crocuses; to hide my sudden dilemma I bent to inspect them. ❋ Day, Dianne (2000)
She blinked back a sheen of new-sprung tears, and with it the last bits of her blindness. ❋ Grubb, Jeff (1998)
The spring was marked first by the planting of an enormous crop of potatoes; over half the available land was given to the new crop-a decision justified within weeks by a hailstorm that flattened the new-sprung barley. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
It was not, therefore, surprising that poor Winifred (albeit not imprudent, save in this new-sprung passion,) might have said with the poet, too truly, ❋ Various (N/A)
I had no desire to feed my new-sprung contempt by watching him pump in vain for information to be used in his secret campaign against me. ❋ Various (N/A)
Outside, the wind was blowing over a bed of new-sprung mint in the garden, and was suggestively fragrant. ❋ Lucy Maud (1920)
A brisk, dancing, new-sprung wind was blowing up from Rainbow Valley, resinous with the odours of fir and damp mosses. ❋ Lucy Maud (1919)
Alone in the cottonwood grove, with little patches of moonlight filtering through onto the new-sprung grass, the two men faced each other. ❋ Unknown (1921)
