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Captain Baker at first thought he was in the presence of an unknown reef; he was even about to fix its exact position when two waterspouts shot out of this inexplicable object and sprang hissing into the air some 150 feet.
While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, which settled for me its mode of breathing.
They rubbed their eyes, stretched their arms, and sprang to their feet.
Then it gathered itself and sprang at us.
From between their stony knees, trees sprang up like jets under fearsome pressure, supporting other trees that supported them in turn.
But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.
They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.
Madame Bovary sprang to lift her up, broke the bell-rope, called for the servant with all her might, and she was just going to curse herself when Charles appeared.
She sprang towards him, she pressed against him, she stirred carefully the dying embers, sought all around her anything that could revive it; and the most distant reminiscences, like the most immediate occasions, what she experienced as well as what she imagined, her voluptuous desires that were unsatisfied, her projects of happiness that crackled in the wind like dead boughs, her sterile virtue, her lost hopes, the domestic tete-a-tete—she gathered it all up, took everything, and made it all serve as fuel for her melancholy.
She sprang up and said to him—"Sir, I am waiting."
The gate grated; she sprang up.
Finally the child, who was laughing at his own prowess, turned to look at his mother, noticed how pale she was, sprang down upon the avenue and ran to join her.
Finally, despite his years, the father sprang nimbly upon the trunk that was being cut by the saw, and from there on to the cross beam that held up the roof.
'What is your name, Sir?' she asked him with an accent and a grace the charm of which Julien could feel without knowing whence it sprang.
Seeing him enter, Madame de Renal sprang quickly out of bed.
In a word, what made Julien a superior being was precisely what prevented him from enjoying the happiness that sprang up at his feet.
The latter sprang to his feet in a transport of rage; but did not know what action to take to be insulting.
Julien, beside himself with emotion, sprang forward; Madame de Renal's fall would perhaps have brought down her friend if he had not supported them.
A little sharp sound was heard; the catch of the window gave way; he pushed it open and sprang lightly into the room.
Madame de Renal sprang after him and flung herself into his arms.
Julien quivered and sprang back.
'Ah, monster!' exclaimed Julien, half aloud, and generous tears sprang to his eyes.
And he sprang with one bound down the steps that led from the house.
On seeing him appear, she assumed an air of malevolence which it was impossible for him to misinterpret,Carried away by his misery, dazed by surprise, Julien was weak enough to say to her, in the tenderest of tones and one that sprang from the heart: 'Then, you no longer love me?''I am horrified at having given myself to the first comer,' said Mathilde, weeping with rage at herself.
He clasped her once more in his arms, sprang on to the ladder and slid rather than climbed down it; in a moment he was on the ground.
Farewell!'Julien sprang out of the cab, and ran to his post-chaise which had drawn up at the end of the street.
His tears sprang from a generous source, he had no doubt as to the sentence that was in store for him.
He interrupted himself, whispered, "I bet you she's listening!" and sprang over to the door.
And he flung the watch down, and sprang out of bed, and had a cold bath, and washed himself, and dressed himself, and shaved himself in cold water because there was not time to wait for the hot, and then rushed and had another look at the watch.
He sprang over the poodle and vigorously attacked a collie, and the collie woke up, and immediately commenced a fierce and noisy contest with the poodle.
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