Slinkys, for instance

Usage examples of springs.

Grey mountains, and old woods, and haunted springs, Prophetic caves, and isle-surrounding streams, Rejoice to hear what yet ye cannot speak.

Startled and glanced and trembled even to feel An unaccustomed presence, and the sound Of the sweet brook that from the secret springs Of that dark fountain rose.

It ebbed even to its withered springs again: When my wan eyes in stern resolve I turned From that most strange delusion, which would fain Have waked the dream for which my spirit yearned With more than human love,--then left it unreturned.

Ye icy Springs, stagnant with wrinkling frost, Which vibrated to hear me, and then crept Shuddering through India!

But, fairest stranger, when didst thou depart From the far hills where rise the springs of India?

Holding a cup like a magnolia flower, And poured upon the earth within the vase The element with which it overflowed, Brighter than morning light, and purer than The water of the springs of Himalah.

It unsealed behind The urns of the silent snow, And earthquake and thunder Did rend in sunder The bars of the springs below.

Loosened the springs of pity in all eyes, On which that form, whose fate they weep in vain, Will never, thought they, kindle smiles again.

The springs their waters change to tears and weep-- The flowers are withered up with grief.

To creep along the labyrinths of the vales, And climb those rocks, where ever-babbling springs, Precipitate themselves in waterfalls, Is the true sport that seasons such a path.

His slumbers are but varied agonies, They prey like scorpions on the springs of life.

Lie level with the earth to moulder there, They fertilize the land they long deformed, Till from the breathing lawn a forest springs Of youth, integrity, and loveliness, Like that which gave it life, to spring and die.

He says they bend down a young sapling and tie it to the noose so that it comes loose as soon as the animal is caught, and jerks it up when the tree springs back.

The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twigs.

There were no springs, and the crust of topsoil was so thin that the flinty bones stuck through.