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
"Thy will be done." 1My Father, grant thy presence nigh To bear aloft my sinking soul, When sorrow o'er my pathway here In widely whelming waves doth roll.
From Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
He writes:— 'But when I mount behind the coach, And bear aloft a flaming torch.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
In man, the spirit sustains the constitutional weakness, as in the winged tribes the feathers bear aloft the body.
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
How the mighty oaks reach out their knotty, muscular arms to welcome us!—how their ponderous shoulders bear aloft the imperial trappings—trappings of silk and velvet, all orange, blue, and purple!
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
