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  • verb Present participle of upsurge.

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Examples

  • To sum up in Sri Aurobindo's terms: So also one may say that the perfection of the integral Yoga will come when each man is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the development of his own nature in its upsurging towards that which transcends the nature.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • To sum up in Sri Aurobindo's terms: So also one may say that the perfection of the integral Yoga will come when each man is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the development of his own nature in its upsurging towards that which transcends the nature.

    Why divide love? Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • I remember the taste of hot blood in my mouth, the tang of fearful exultation in my soul, the onrushing and upsurging of inhuman strength and fury.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • “That was foolish — the trip to Spain was futile also —” He struggled against an upsurging hilarity — that any reputable medical man should have lent himself to such an amateurish experiment!

    Tender is the Night 2003

  • He hesitated, his own brain reeling with the fierce upsurging of his violent passions.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He hesitated, his own brain reeling with the fierce upsurging of his violent passions.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There had been the beginning of a thought there, but the upsurging blackness of sleep drowned it.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • And he had felt a great upsurging of joy when he knew that he would have her with him for at least another day, and a corresponding resentment that it was all to be gone through again, that it was not yet over after all.

    Beyond the Sunrise Balogh, Mary 1992

  • He hesitated, his own brain reeling with the fierce upsurging of his violent passions.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • He hesitated, his own brain reeling with the fierce upsurging of his violent passions.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

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