bear aloft
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But armoured fleets bear aloft on their decks a rampart of towers, so that fighting may like place even at sea as from the walls of a fortress.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2013
How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable— Looking tranquillity.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Or boar from Argive woods, or noble conger From Sicyon's bay, the conger which the god Of the deep sea doth bear aloft to heaven, Fit banquet for his brethren.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Still higher, towered a guardian mountain of astonishing majesty, seeming to bear aloft on a petrified cushion a royal crown of iron.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
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