And with a hasty farewell he sprang into the boat.
He sought to come towards her, and she sprang forward and threw herself at his feet.
Elsie sprang from her seat in a moment, and placed herself at the side of her child.
He sprangfrom the bed and ran eagerly to the window.
Once more the two sprang into the waves and started for the Round Rock, where the spray was dashing merrily over the plumage of the Stork as he stood there upon one leg, trying not to mind the wetness which he hated.
Like a cat Bob sprang up the remaining rings, and hacked at the gear; the sail fell--and so did Bob, with a dull thud.
The skipper sprang to the grating abaft the wheel.
He watched the impression spread, and then sprang at his peroration with lightning-footed tact.
The vanward flights of twirling flakes came on then, as if suddenly unleashed, the wind sprang up, and the great fight began.
Ned took no notice, but as soon as he had finished dinner he sprang up and made for the door of the berth.
I sprang overboard, and with a few strokes gained the canoe, being almost thrown on to her by the seas, when I felt that she was being drawn under the surface; but I clutched tight hold of her, and she quickly came up again.
He sprang forward, his hand touched the firm ground.
When ordered by Mr Rhymer to try and prevent the escape of the slaves, he sprang forward without thinking of the risk he ran.
He sprang from his place of concealment and ran towards the bank.
Ned ran off, sprang up the hill with the agility of a deer, and made his way to the coast-guard station faster than he had ever before performed the distance.
The lieutenant hauled in the rope, fearing that Tom's legs might be entangled, but the brave black again sprang forward.
Charley sprang forward, and glancing along the piece, fired, but the shot fell short.
Ned seeing that Cox had managed to reach the side, sprang overboard, his example being followed by the latter, as well as by the young Arab who had remained aft.
The savagessprang forward, uttering cries more of terror than victory.
Several bullets came whistling close to his head; to avoid them he sprang behind the trunk of a large tree.
Many of the Arabs and a large number of their followers sprang in.
Ned, who had been on the watch at a little distance, sprang forward to meet her.
Before long a breeze sprang up, the two ships parted, and the corvette, under all sail, steered for the Cape.
Not having observed his approach, I was startled by the suddenness of the contact, and sprang to my feet, half in surprise and half in alarm.
Six thousand years in strife have rolled away, Since Erin sprangfrom billowy surf and spray; In that drear lapse, her sons have never known One ray of peace to gild her crimson zone.
And shaking off my hold as though it had been a child's, he sprang into the laboratory adjoining, and locked the door as quick as thought.
But we had no sooner given the alarm than our enemies sprang to their feet, and clustered about a central object, which we immediately recognized, to our chagrin and terror, as none other than Billy Goat himself.
I sprang to my feet with all the eagerness of joy, and was about to rush into the arms of Pio, when he suddenly checked my enthusiasm by extinguishing the light.
Making a false step, the floating rock upon which he sprang suddenly turned over, and before relief could be afforded his body was consumed to a crisp.
Each sprang to his feet, looked wildly around, but seeing nothing, gazed at the other in blank astonishment.
Resolved not to be balked and defrauded by such a scoundrel, I stealthily withdrew the vial from his pocket, and sprang to my feet, just in time to hear the click of a revolver behind me.
At the thought fear, natural, human fear, caught at her again and she sprang to her feet, a thing distraught.
Bernardy stood quite still, wondering what her life had been that "courage" should be the word that instinctively sprang to her lips.
Vashti turned out the lamp, and as she did so a sudden harsh noise sent the heart to her throat, while Willie sprangup fearfully.
Sophie sprang up and, walking to the window, hit the shut pane with her hand.
She sprang to her feet and slipped behind the oak-sapling, as though it were a defence against some danger; across the boughs he saw her puzzled, fearful eyes.
With a cry the Abbess sprang to her feet; there were tear stains on her white cheeks, and her hand shook as she pointed fiercely to the door.
She had just begun to mix the dough in a huge kneading-trough, when suddenly the trough sprang up.
One of the figures, with an odd cry that was half a laugh, half a sob, sprang forward and caught him about the neck.
Marie Josephine's voice shook, and the tears sprang into her eyes in spite of herself.
But as he pondered a flourish of trumpets was blown, and all men sprang up, and the captain said to Ralph: "Now hath our Lord done his dinner and we must to horse.
Ralph sprang to his feet as he said the word, and cried out eagerly: "Old friend, and where then wert thou bred and born?
And my heart was full and fain, and I sprang to my feet and showed him a smiling happy face, for I saw at once that it was that fair man come back again.
Tabitha's sensitive face flushed crimson and the angry light sprang to her eyes, but Bertha rose to the occasion with the ready tact which had made her one of the most popular girls.
Then the tea-bell pealed out its summons, and the toilers sprang to their feet in dismay.
And in Tabitha's heart sprang the fierce longing to be sick, very sick, so sick that they would have to take her away from this horrible desert town.
Pretending to be surprised and startled at the burst of applause, he sprang up and began to talk.
He let Brown go then, and the latter, with pilot instinct, sprang to the wheel, for the boat was drifting.
With the quickness of a cat he dodged me, spat in my face as I turned, and, with a horrible laugh, sprang headlong into the well.
A little nervous tremor seized the corners of her mouth, and the tears sprang to her eyes.
I sprang upon him at the same instant I threw my hat, and so was able to reach him before he opened his eyes.
I sprang out of bed, took a light, and rushed down here, for I am not afraid to meet anything I can see, but the window was closed and locked, as I had left it!
As nearly as I could tell, the point of my stick caught him in the socket of the left eye, just as he sprang forward, and hurled him backward, blinded and stupefied.
With a wild cry, more of fear than of pain, Darrow sprang from his chair.
The colour sprang to Gwen's cheeks, but she only replied by a grateful glance.
At the noise Darrow sprang to his feet, exclaiming: "Again!
The editor sprang away from the tube, and dashed into the middle of a vast mass of papers on his desk, turning them all over, first in heaps, then singly.
Tom had no leisure to right the cradle; he merely dropped the baby on the floor by the side of it, and sprang to the window.
He then sprang in succession to various side-tables and served their contents in the same manner.
Just as he was dropping off to sleep and beauteous visions, he sprang up with a start, and, lighting a candle, descended to the dining-room.
She sprang upon Pitou and snatched the lightened platter from his hand, with an oath which would not have been out of place in the mouth of an old soldier.
However powerful the philosophical command in Gilbert, paternal love overruled decorum, and he sprang to the boy whom he pressed to his breast, with care not to hurt his bruised chest or his cut arm.
He sprang up as though a spring had acted under his feet.
Wolfenden, fascinated by that line of gleaming green light, hesitated for a moment, then he sprang backwards, but he was too late.
Miss Merton sprang up and walked towards the door.
Mr. Sabin swore softly between his teeth, and sprang to his feet.
Wolfenden sprangsuddenly from his chair with startled face.
Like a cat the man who had made the attack sprang across the roadway, and into the gardens which fringed the Embankment.
A dark figure sprang from out of the shadows and seized him by the throat; something that glittered like a streak of silver in the electric light flashed upwards.
Prime felt for the button on the jamb of the right-hand door and Lucetta's sleeping-niche sprang alight.
Prime sprang up, rifle in hand, and went to meet the newcomer, prepared to do battle if needful.
Prime collided with a tree, stumbled and fell, and sprang up to call again.
The supper guest sprang up as if a bomb had been exploded under him and quickly put a safe distance between himself and the camp-fire.
To my surprise a gallant youth, some twelve years of age, sprang through the momentarily parted curtains of the palankeen.
But suddenly, at the intersection of the two bazaars, a group of loiterers sprang forward, and with cries assailed the moorman and the grooms, turning the mules into the quieter thoroughfare.
My reverie, however, was of short duration, for all of a sudden Bimjee sprang to his feet in great excitement.
Between Richard Baskerville, already known as one of the cleverest young lawyers in Washington, and Pelham a sincere friendship sprang up, as the two men were alike in many respects.
She sprang to her feet, a new light in her eyes which Clavering had never seen before.
I sprang up from Runnles' side, but the bosun from the bed beyond was before me.
Instantly I sprang in, the negro at my heels; he closed the door behind me; and I stood once more face to face with Cyrus Vetch.
He had recognized me, and sprang towards the doorway where I stood with staff aslant, the trembling watchman still whirling his rattle behind.
A bare word of greeting passed between us, for Noah, seeing Vetch helpless in my grasp, sprang forward with a shout of savage joy and but for my intervention would have plunged his knife into the wretched man.
I sprang forward, but before I could vault over the obstructing table Vetch had dashed through a door behind him that opened on to the veranda.
I fell to the floor; he sprang over my body and up the steps; I cried out to Cludde to seize him, and to Mistress Lucy that the fight was over, and then all things became a blank to me.
The negro drivers let forth a yell and dropped their reins when the rest of our party sprang out from the copse.
We sprang forward at the double, and coming in sight of the house, I saw with relief that it was yet intact, the smoke arising from the outbuildings, which were already almost burned to the ground.
Flinging off the sack that smothered us, Cludde and I sprang from the wagon, our companions doing likewise, and we burst headlong into the kitchen.
But he had no sooner left my side than Vetch sprang forward, and catching me by the arm, gave it a cunning twist that, in spite of myself, made me shriek with pain.
I sprang up in haste to get an answer to this question; for on it depended the chances of a plot which had flashed upon my mind.
I sprang up (forgetting my wounded leg), and looked eagerly across the sea.
For some minutes great masses rolled over the surface of the sea, then a breeze sprang up, which rapidly dispelled the mist.
Where formerly sprang up that charming verdure, the soil was now nothing but a savage mass of volcanic tufa.
Mr. Percival was at home; and, without waiting to be announced, Ellery sprang up the stairs to the little sanctum where the two had confabbed on many a day.
The song stopped abruptly, and Dick sprang to his feet.
His eyes were caught by one of the passing couples and he sprang to his feet.
Mr. Early grew so excited by the strength of his new passion that he sprang to his feet and walked up and down to luxuriate in the idea.
Mrs. Lenox darted a look at her and sprang suddenly to her feet.
The keel grated, and Ellery sprang ashore and held out his arms to help her.
As he spoke he sprang to his feet and drew his belt more closely about him.
It was late in the afternoon when Grant suddenly sprang to his feet and after gazing long and earnestly in the direction in which the guide was looking, he said excitedly, "Zeke, isn't that two men coming up the trail?
The two children burst into tears; Jacky rubbed his eyes to hide his; but Miss Polly sprang from her chair, and fell weeping into Mrs. Howard's arms.
The worthy man no sooner saw him than he came almost cantering up, sprang from the quiet pony, and caught him in his arms.
The dog drew his ears forward, every hair in his rough coat began to bristle itself; he sprang upon his four feet--he stood a moment.
But she was not to have that minute; Wolf was behind; he had flown with the swiftness of the wild hart, and when within leaping distance of the old woman, he sprang upon her, and caused his fangs to meet in her leg.
The door was burst open from within, and out sprang Lucilla, flying forward to her brother.
He flew to the hedge, he sprang up the bank, and called to Stephen, who was walking along the path on the other side with his dog Pincher.
A carriage drove to the door as he reached it, and his friend Caffarelli sprang out and grasped his hand.
Caffarelli sprang forward, and laid his hands on M'Caskey's shoulders.
Skeffy sprang over a box-hedge almost as tall as himself, flourishing a great sealed packet in his band.
M'Caskey, as hesprang out of the carriage into the midst of them.
Give him a foe but worthy of him, and no man ever sprang into the lists with a lighter heart; the dread of a false position was too much for him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
