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
How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity!
From Side Lights by Allen, Grant
Thou seest the Father; Thy sad sighs gather, And bear aloft Thy sorrow and His pain!
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
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 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
Others bear aloft the trident, the emblem of Siva.
From Among the Tibetans by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
