bear aloft
Example Sentences
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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
Thou, when the rosy morn restores the light, First arm thy soldiers for th' ensuing fight: Thyself the fated sword of Vulcan wield, And bear aloft th' impenetrable shield.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
The eagle sits ready to bear aloft the spirit of the sleeper.
From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Burgoyne, Thomas H.
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
Hast thou not seen the summer breeze, The eddying leaves, and downy feather, Whirl round a while beneath the trees, Then bear aloft to heaven together?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
