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sprang up and both looked eagerly
The light sprang up, and both looked eagerly round.
— from Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

sole use and behalf literature exists
As one of the great class for whose sole use and behalf literature exists—the class of readers—I protest that it is to me a matter of indifference whether an author is happy or not.
— from Obiter Dicta: Second Series by Augustine Birrell

spring up and bud like early
Your Kindness, Gallants, I shall soon repay, If you’ll but favour my Design to Day: Your last Applauses, like refreshing Showers, Made me spring up and bud like early Flow’rs; Since then I’m grown at least an Inch in height, And shall e’er long be full-blown for Delight .
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

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