A mad piper, indeed, this
spring, with his wonderful lying music,--ever lying, yet ever convincing, for when was
Spring known to keep his word?
Quest of the Golden Girl
"Oh, the
spring, I suppose," he thought as he turned round.
War and Peace
'at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the
spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the
spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.'
Fairy Tales
"I believe the
Spring has come at last," said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Taking a wide circuit round the ultimate tracks, so as to leave them undisturbed for further examination, the man proceeded to the
spring, the girl following, weak and terrified.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories
Spring is the most wonderful, because she has not to cover a clean, bare field with new leaves and flowers, but to drive before her and to put away the hanging-on, over-surviving raffle of half-green things which the gentle winter has suffered to live, and to make the partly-dressed stale earth feel new and young once more.
Second Jungle Book
He now evinced displeasure at her repeated failures, and himself made a mighty
spring upward.
White Fang
Down goes the red cross, and up
springs Simon with the scarlet roses!"
The White Company
They were to marry in the spring--at the very first signs of
spring, Walter said.
The Four Million
It lingered but a moment's space, that dream of
Spring, and died; Yet as my head the pillows pressed, my soul had found thy side.
Lute of Jade
Not an intermitting
spring! Perhaps on that
spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle
spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
For each star is eye-like there, And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair - And they, and ev'ry mossy
spring were holy To his love-haunted heart and melancholy.
Poems
As I remember, the
spring came late that year in Carlisle.
The Golden Road
WHEN
SPRING CAME, AFTER that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air.
My Antonia
Departure for the rendezvous A war party of Blackfeet A mock bustle Sham fires at night Warlike precautions Dangers of a night attack A panic among horses Cautious march The Beer
Springs A mock carousel Skirmishing with buffaloes A buffalo bait Arrival at the rendezvous Meeting of various bands
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and