The mat of pine needles was half a foot thick, soft and springy and fragrant.
The lion broke loose and with great, springy bounds ran up the canyon, Don and his followers hot-footing it after him.
They were springy and rhythmic, the footsteps of a powerful man.
I reckon he must have overdone it," and away he went with hisspringy step until he reached the forward end of the promenade, where he tapped at the stateroom door.
Then Connelly took half a dozen quick, springy steps that landed him close to the unmoved recruit.
He bowed and smiled to the girls, and Rainbow sailed off with his beautiful easy, springy stride.
The gray moved off, shaking his head, at a beautiful, easy, springy canter.
As for Maddie, wherever she picked it up she went like a bird, with a free, springy sort of sliding step, and all in time to the music, anybody could see.
They looked in each other's eyes for a minute, and then the old horse started off along the road to Bathurst with his fast, springy walk.
Another minute and, curveting with impatience even after their twenty-mile spurt, the handsome bays were dancing in one long line over the springy turf, Davies and two stalwart sergeants in front of the three platoons.
An erect, martial carriage and quick, springy step had replaced the somewhat plodding gait of the school and farm.
Compact and active looking; springy and lively in action.
While Dick was busy with the tomahawk, Chippy attacked a thicket of tall, straight-growing hazels with his knife, and cut an armful of the springy rods.
This delicate Nemophila haunts wet, springy places among the hills, and is at its best in early spring.
The plants often grow in clumps and colonies of several hundred, and are always found in the rich soil of stream-banks or of wet, springy places.
It is a charming flower, and is always found in shaded, springy places in cool canyons.
Upon half-shaded slopes in the Sierras, where great firs rear their noble shafts, forming an open forest, this little trailing shrub makes a clean, delightfully springy carpet underfoot.
It is situated on a rather high, springy knoll, commanding a view of the surrounding plain for several miles.
They all roamed into the rose-garden, where there were alleys of standard rose-trees, planted upon grass that was soft and springy under the foot.
No one walks in the same way as Cyril does; isn't it a light, springy tread?
This consists of a short stick attached by a cord to a strong springy pole thrust vertically into the ground.
She led the way across the green, springy lawn to the little rustic building over which the vivid Bougainvillæa climbed and swarmed, and he followed at his halted pace.
No, there was no sound of brisk, springy footsteps on the elastic wooden walk.
The loungers drew still nearer as the senior calmly turned to his companion, who, having assured himself that their impedimenta were all safe, came with quick, springy step to join him.
As she came toward me, greeting me, I could not help remarking again the lithe and springy limb-movement with which she walked, and her fine, firm skin.
Miss West emerged from the chart-house, with a rosy morning face and her vital, springy limb-movement, and immediately began establishing her contacts.
We overtook a long shuffling column of Russian prisoners and further on, the Germans who were slightly wounded walking with almost a springy step in contrast to the dispirited Russians.
The front door-bell jangled suddenly, and a little later he heard a springy step passing along the hall.
Then she tripped out with her springy step, which had kept its elasticity through war and famine, while Oliver, gazing after her, wondered whether it was philosophy or merely a love of pleasure that sustained her?
And since there could be nothing more pleasurable in the way of walking than locomotion over the springy grass of the downs, he took, as he had done a hundred times before, the road that led to Falmer.
Her vivacity, so long assumed, her affectionate display of cheerfulness, her light-hearted tone and springy gait were gone.
I have already put off the carelessness of childhood, the unlined brow, and springy gait of early years, that they may adorn thee.
His springy step never slowed until suddenly, when he was a hundred yards in front of me, he halted, and I saw him throw up his hand with a gesture of grief and despair.
He was a fine figure of a man, tall, lithe, and agile, with a springy step and a pleasant, open face.
Slim fagots of wood bound together and laid lengthwise at the bottom of a carefully graded drain ditch will answer fairly well if stone or drain tile cannot be had, and will be of infinite benefit to a dirt road laid on springy soils.
If a stiff finish is wanted, they keep exactly opposite each other; but in breadthing the piece of elastic, they cross the piece in breadthing, which gives it a springy elastic finish.
The former, which is short, is spun into a cord, and boiled in this state, to give it the tortuous springy form.
