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How pleasant is the course along a new river, the sight of new shores; like a life, would but life flow as fast, and upbear us with as full a stream.

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

Strong-winged this Eagle, either wafter ready To buoy and to upbear that body great.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 by Various

What shall I say of those fair buildings, which ’tis so wonderful to see the ground among those fens upbear?’

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

Lord Falworth had the grim strength of manhood's hard sense to upbear him in sending his son into the world, but the poor lady mother had nothing of that to uphold her.

From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

Gila, in her most imperial mood, wearing a bewildering imported frock whose simple intricacies and daring contrasts were well calculated to upbear a determined spirit in a supreme combat, awaited his coming impatiently.

From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

The lions upbearing the throne in the hall of audience were of gold.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

The desk, upbearing broken bottles and a cluttered mess of paper, letter and debris of all description, was scratched and dented.

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

I was conscious, moreover, of the strong upbearing of my companion's hand that lent wings to my feet.

From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

It seemed that I stood and watched a world awake, the great night still upbearing me above the flood of the day.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee

There the swift relief was like an upbearing into another air, charged with more intimate222 largess for life.

From Christmas A Story by Leon V. (Leon Victor) Solon

When other actors faltered -and every member of the excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly Milton's angels marched above the ground and “the passive air upbore their nimble tread.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

It was strange how this purpose upbore and consoled me; for I needed consolation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

And when war was red Around us, friends upbore the gentle dead Home, and dear women's heads about them wound White shrouds, and here they sleep in the old ground Belovèd.

From The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides

But, albeit he could not swim, the hand of God upbore him, that he won safe to the dry land again.

From The Fall of the Niebelungs by Margaret Armour

The seal of Eton College, dated 1474, attests to the Assumption; in that seal Mary is shown upborne by six angels with the arms of Eton under her feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the last few minutes she seemed upborne by some secret thought I could neither fathom nor understand.

From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green

And the chance would be gone, Which her hopes had upborne, For a twelvemonth and some few days more.

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice

By thee upborne, his name ascends the skies.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

In this manner they descended several hundred feet, and when from the bottom they looked up over the way they had come they felt that they must surely have been upborne by wings.

From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe