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Our wings are fancies, incense-borne, That feather-light upbear.

From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various

Each hand an Alpine spear 766 Waves, and an oblong shield their stalwart arms upbear.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

O mystic wings, upbear me lightly now, Beyond life's faithful labour to a seat Where I can feel the end of things complete, Where no hot breath of ill can scorch the brow.

From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Sister, how glorious even now these towers, What realm shall rise, with such a wondrous pair When Teucrian arms join fellowship with ours, What glory shall the Punic state upbear!

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

Huge Atlas was Electra's sire, the same Whose shoulders still the starry skies upbear.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

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

From before it one might gaze upon league upon league of sullen sea, stretching to where, far in the dim distance, lay the curve of the horizon upbearing the gray dome of the sky.

From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne

Then, as a river of fire, they streamed slowly through the Corso, on their way to the Quirinal to thank the Pope, upbearing a banner on which the edict was printed.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller

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

While "Paradise Lost" was thus slowly upbearing its author to the highest heaven of fame, Milton was achieving other titles to renown, one of which he deemed nothing inferior.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

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

For one wistful moment they looked and waited, then the hill upbore them no longer.

From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon

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

From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes

Splinter'd are the columns that upbore The leafy palace, green for aye: The shivered branches whirr and sigh, Yawn the huge trunks with mighty groan, The roots, upriven, creak and moan!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke

For e'en as those mysterious Four, Who the bright whirling wheels upbore    By Chebar in the fiery blast.

From The Christian Year by John Keble

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

Beneath, the forest lay sleeping in the lustrous sunlight, and now and again from its cool recess would be upborne the soft note of a hoopoe.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

I just tried The slippers on, amazed to see them shaped So fairly to my feet, when, all at once, I felt my steps upborne and hurried on Almost as if with wings.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard

He seemed to faint, and to be upborne into the upper regions of the sky, where he gave the beauty a rapturous kiss, and then they both paused upon a mountain-side.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

Wak'd by his warmer ray, the reptile young Come wing'd abroad; by the light air upborne, Lighter, and full of soul.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various