Springs

Examples

• Yes; and of the lake and the springs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But immediately afterwards the armature springs backward and makes contact at _P_ and the entire operation is repeated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The union of a number of springs forms a river. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. Plato. The Republic.
• He has warned us twice, replied Justinian, as he walked out into the court with the poet; once by the earthquake, again by the springs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is a dead weight upon the action of one of the great springs which puts into motion a great part of the business of mankind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The enemy at this time occupied a line running from the Mississippi River at Columbus to Bowling Green and Mill Springs, Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 15th of November, while I was still at Holly Springs, I sent word to Sherman to meet me at Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These springs are usually the result of water flowing over a deposit of salt rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Brooks and springs formed in this way are constant feeders of rivers and lakes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No, I am going down to the valley to look at those hot springs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• On the 23d I removed my headquarters back to Holly Springs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Lack of the free and equitable intercourse which springs from a variety of shared interests makes intellectual stimulation unbalanced. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The common supply of rivers is from springs, which draw their origin from rain that has soaked into the earth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Thomas fought and won the battle of Mill Springs before we returned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So, with hushed steps and in silence, we placed the dead on a bier of ice, and then, departing, stood on the rocky platform beside the river springs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector. Plato. The Republic.
• The practical method of securing the proper and ready adaptation of balances to springs is to place in the rims of the balance a number of small screws having relatively heavy heads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• That night he and McClernand were both at Rocky Springs ten miles from Hankinson's ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The engine had no springs, and its movement was a series of jolts, that injured the rails and shook the machinery apart. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I never met General Jackson before the war, nor during it, but have met him since at his very comfortable summer home at Manitou Springs, Colorado. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It supplies an even heat and uniform temperature, and is much used in producing clock and watch springs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The next day my cavalry was in Holly Springs, and the enemy fell back south of the Tallahatchie. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One of the innumerable contact springs had broken off and had fallen down between the two gear wheels and stopped the instrument; but it was not very noticeable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Beneath that black mud, bubbled the hot springs of Bath. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For art can open up the springs from which conduct flows. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The people have some protector whom they nurse into greatness, and from this root the tree of tyranny springs. Plato. The Republic.

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