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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Spring (Verb)
 
  Springs like a hunted deer.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Sprang to his feet like one recalled to life.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Spring up like mushrooms.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Spring up as weeds in neglected soil.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Springing up like dandelions after a spring shower.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Sprang to his feet like a startled roebuck.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  6
  Sprang, like an uncaged beast.
            —Robert Browning		  7
  Sprang like sparks from an anvil.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  8
  Sprang as from a sudden trumpet’s clang.
            —Lord Byron		  9
  Sprang forward like a courser for the goal.
            —James Fenimore Cooper		  10
  Sprang, like the twin fountains of Benasji, from a divided source.
            —Dr. John Doran		  11
  Spring like a stag.
            —Adam Lindsay Gordon		  12
  Springeth up as doth a welle.
            —John Gower		  13
Sprang like a wave
In the wind.
            —William Ernest Henley		  14
                Spring
Like an arrow released from the strain of the string.
            —Thomas Wentworth Higginson		  15
  Spring up like mushrooms in a September night.
            —George Birkbeck Hill		  16
  Springeth like Neptune.
            —Homer		  17
Oh never despair, for our hopes oftentime
Spring swiftly as flow’rs in some tropical clime,
Where the spot that was barren and scentless at night
Is blooming and fragrant at morning’s first light.
            —Samuel Lover		  18
  Sprang like a lily from the dirt of poverty.
            —Gerald Massey		  19
  Sprang, as smitten with a mortal wound.
            —James Montgomery		  20
  Spring as at the shout of war.
            —Samuel Rogers		  21
  Springest like a cloud of fire.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  22
  Springs like a mettled steed when the spur stingeth.
            —Mary E. Stebbins		  23
  They shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
            —Old Testament		  24
  Spring as the grass.
            —Old Testament		  25
  Spring forth like spectres starting from the storm-swept earth.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  26
  Sprang like an arrow shot straight from the bow.
            —Ella Wheeler Wilcox		  27
 
 
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