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Source n.

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. (Obs.) "Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers... Maken their sours to Goddes ears two."

The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain. "Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours." "Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile."

That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. "This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself." "The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense."

Synonyms: See Origin.

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"Source" Quotes from Famous Books

... have it,' declared Old Mother Nature, 'but not all the time lest you be tempted to forget your work, which, you know, is the real source of true happiness. In the spring of each year you shall go back to your home in the water, and there for a time you shall sing to your heart's content, and there shall be no sweeter voice ...

— Mother West Wind "How" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess

... without another blow. The minor forts near by at once surrendered and were destroyed, while the guns of Sagres were thrown over the cliffs and picked up by the men below. The whole neighboring coast was then swept clear of the fishing fleet which was the main source of supply used for the ...

— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood

... he became a politician, taking his lessons and forming his political creed from a most unlikely source, apparently. This was the Weekly Dispatch, a paper that in those days was scarcely thought to be proper reading for young people. He read it, however, with avidity, and there is no doubt that it had much to do with forming his ...

— Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men • E. Edwards

... "gives us life like a mother, but loves us like a step-mother." The origin of human companionship was opposition to Nature; it was horror of impious Nature that first linked men together in the bonds of society. It is human society, in effect, the source of reflective consciousness and of the craving for immortality, that inaugurates the state of grace upon the state of Nature; and it is man who, by humanizing and spiritualizing Nature ...

— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

... well-dressing, to spread their garlands around it, and sing, and cat their supper on the green. Heavenly voices spoke to her, but the others did not hear them. Often did she drink of this water. It became a fountain of life springing up in her heart. I have come to drink at the same source. It will strengthen me as a sacrament. Come, son, let us take it together as we go to ...

— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke

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