Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Spring (Verb)
Springs like a hunted deer.
—Anonymous
Sprang to his feet like one recalled to life.
—Anonymous
Spring up like mushrooms.
—Anonymous
Spring up as weeds in neglected soil.
—Anonymous
Springing up like dandelions after a spring shower.
—Anonymous
Sprang to his feet like a startled roebuck.
—Honoré de Balzac
Sprang, like an uncaged beast.
—Robert Browning
Sprang like sparks from an anvil.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sprang as from a sudden trumpet’s clang.
—Lord Byron
Sprang forward like a courser for the goal.
—James Fenimore Cooper
Sprang, like the twin fountains of Benasji, from a divided source.
—Dr. John Doran
Spring like a stag.
—Adam Lindsay Gordon
Springeth up as doth a welle.
—John Gower
Sprang like a wave
In the wind.
—William Ernest Henley
Spring
Like an arrow released from the strain of the string.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Spring up like mushrooms in a September night.
—George Birkbeck Hill
Springeth like Neptune.
—Homer
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
Sprang like a lily from the dirt of poverty.
—Gerald Massey
Sprang, as smitten with a mortal wound.
—James Montgomery
Spring as at the shout of war.
—Samuel Rogers
Springest like a cloud of fire.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Springs like a mettled steed when the spur stingeth.
—Mary E. Stebbins
They shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
—Old Testament
Spring as the grass.
—Old Testament
Spring forth like spectres starting from the storm-swept earth.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Sprang like an arrow shot straight from the bow.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox