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
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
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
Mr. Hill's wings do bear aloft and sustain: if not always, nor even ever, into the very empyrean of poetry, yet invariably, seventy times, into the ampler air.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
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
