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
Hon. Ameer Ali, Dr. Iqbal and a host of others bear aloft the New Light.
From Notes on Islam by Hussain, Khaja Muhammad
One of our citizens—a Kennebecker, by-the-way—was particularly zealous in saving the Whig flag-staff, declaring it should long remain to bear aloft the flag of freemen.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.
It now must bear aloft a hymn, The call of God proclaiming; Pictures of blood its lines shall limn, Drawn bold in letters flaming,— Its name shall be: "The Free North's Hymn!"
From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell
Others bear aloft the trident, the emblem of Siva.
From Among the Tibetans by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
