1 One boy, on whose face a blond fuzz had just begun to sprout, was dumped on the front porch by a mounted soldier bound for Fayetteville.
2 It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.
3 Jo's book was the pride of her heart, and was regarded by her family as a literary sprout of great promise.
4 He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.
5 She found many more of the sprouting pale green points than she had ever hoped to find.
6 There were things sprouting and pushing out from the roots of clumps of plants and there were actually here and there glimpses of royal purple and yellow unfurling among the stems of crocuses.
7 I'm surprised at you, Scarlett, for sprouting a conscience this late in life.
8 Yet even by this deadly winter the germ of hope was not to be kept from sprouting in their hearts.
9 Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its foliage in his shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 10 He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 11 The luminous rays wrapped her up with her increasing distance, and the rustle of her dress over the sprouting sedge and grass died away.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 12 A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
13 Yet his plump, healthy-looking cheeks were so robustly constituted, and contained such an abundance of recreative vigour, that a new whisker soon sprouted in place of the old one, and even surpassed its predecessor.
14 Through the hard century-old bark, even where there were no twigs, leaves had sprouted such as one could hardly believe the old veteran could have produced.
15 They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM