I felt a spark of fear and a second lie sprung to my lips.

I bit back the words that sprang to my lips.

Yet he could see no reason to give anything other than the first and obvious answer that sprang to his lips.

He pulled himself together in a second, and the right orders sprang to his lips without thinking.

Words of denial sprang to her lips, but before she could voice them, James spoke again.

"Delightful" is a word that often springs to her lips.

And with the memory a name sprang spontaneously to my lips.

The name had sprung to his lips with an ease he found surprising.

A dozen excuses sprang to her lips, but they died there.

A cry sprang to his lips, a prayer to be let off.