begin vs spring to life

begin

verb
  • To come into existence. 

  • To be in the first stage of some situation 

  • To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. 

noun
  • Beginning; start. 

spring to life

verb
  • To start to exist. 

How often have the words begin and spring to life occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )