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
To them no king seals his dominions When morning breaks in eastern air; Their life is free as are their pinions Which bear aloft the gladsome pair.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
Time was I feared to know or feel The spur of aught but gilded weal; To bear aloft the victor, Fame, Would ev'n have champed a stately shame Of bit and bridle.
From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons
He says that we English-speaking class of foreigners bear aloft a banner with the strange device 'All right.'
From The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' by Doré, Gustave
Why cannot the soaring spirit bear aloft its earthly tenement?
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter
